{
  "abstract": "Approximately 80% of individuals with disabilities live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs—World Bank 2024 Gross National Income per capita less than $4465), with an estimated 60–80 million individuals with disabilities living in Africa.1 Disability has a diverse global impact, compounded in regions where low socioeconomic development presents a myriad of challenges to accessing the benefit of sport and exercise participation, including inaccessible, inequitable and costly healthcare services.2",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Division of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Department of Exercise, Sport and Lifestyle Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa"
      ],
      "name": "Phoebe Runciman"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Division of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Department of Exercise, Sport and Lifestyle Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa"
      ],
      "name": "Faatima Adam"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Rehabilitation Medicine Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden"
      ],
      "name": "Kristina Fagher"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Division of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Department of Exercise, Sport and Lifestyle Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa",
        "Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Doha, Qatar"
      ],
      "name": "Eirik Halvorsen Wik"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Division of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Department of Exercise, Sport and Lifestyle Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa",
        "Rehabilitation Medicine Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden",
        "International Olympic Committee, Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa"
      ],
      "name": "Wayne Derman"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Closing the gap: a call for contextual disability sport research in Africa and low- and middle-income countries",
  "uid": "0d2b3121-3a6e-53f7-8906-fc6878b56a7d"
}