Disabled women around the world are being denied basic health services from family planning advice to pap smears because they are seen as asexual, disability rights campaigners said on Thursday.

Women with disabilities are often ignored, shunned or mocked when seeking help from medical practitioners or even friends or family, victims said on the sidelines global summit on sexual and reproductive health in Nairobi.

“Women with a disability are viewed as asexual – that we are not human and do not have needs or sexual desires,” said Mildred Omino, a campaigner with Kenyan charity Women and Realities of Disability who needs crutches to walk.