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Economic impact of a large-scale scabies upsurge on healthcare facilities in Rohingya refugee camps: A retrospective costing study. [PDF]

PLOS Global Public Health
Scabies is one of the common infectious skin conditions globally, with a significantly high burden in hot and tropical countries, and resource-poor settings. Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar are one of the most protracted refugee crises in the world,
Charls Erik Halder, Md Abeed Hasan, James Charles Okello, Sayed Sunny Uz Zaman, Julekha Tabassum Poly, Hamim Tassdik, Dickson Wafula Barasa, Emmanuel Roba Soma, Md Farhad Hussain, U Maung Prue, Sirajul Munir Khandokar, John Patrick Almedia, Jahangir Alam   +12 more
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Education as Treatment for Chronic Pain in Survivors of Trauma in Cambodia: Results of a Randomized Controlled Outcome Trial

International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2019
Based on the hypothesis that pain is a stand-alone problem, not just a symptom of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the effect of group psycho-education (“pain school”) for survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime with pain-PTSD comorbidity was tested in
Uwe Harlacher, Peter Polatin, Sopheap Taing, Pich Phana, Phaneth Sok, Chim Sothera   +5 more
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When Governments and International Organizations Shut Down: The Impact of COVID-19 on Refugees’ and Host Community’s Use of Educational Services in Cox’s Bazar

Frontiers in Education, 2021
At the global level, COVID-19 not only shut down many services that national governments provide to public, but it also severely limited the ability of international organizations to deliver services during humanitarian crisis.
Haakon Gjerløw, Sabrina Karim, Gudrun Østby   +2 more
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Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: The Case of UNHCR’s Response

Jurnal Hubungan Internasional, 2020
How does the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) respond to a sudden influx of a large number of refugees in a state rejecting the international legal standards on refugee protection?
Taufiq -E- Faruque
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Infection prevention and control for COVID-19 response in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh: an intra-action review

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Background Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) is critical in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and is one of the pillars of the WHO COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan 2020.
Rebecca Racheal Apolot, Simon Ssentamu Kaddu, Egmond Samir Evers, Paul Debashish, S. M. Niaz Mowla, Sabbir Ahmed, Aritra Das, Abu Toha M. R. H. Bhuiyan, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Anupam Barua, Allen Gidraf Kahindo Maina, Murad Sultan, Marsela Nyawara, Victoria Willet, Kai Von Harbou   +14 more
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UNRWA and the Palestinian precedent: lessons from the international response to the Palestinian refugee crisis [PDF]

, 2017
Considering the major refugee crises currently facing the world, this essay argues that an examination of earlier such crises is needed in order to devise an effective international response today.
Irfan, Anne
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Refugiados ambientais: reflexões sobre o conceito e os desafios contemporâneos

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2021
This article examines how climate change exposes the need for a reformulation of the term refugee to include people who are forced to migrate for environmental reasons.
Andréa Vettorassi, Orzete Amorim
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Impact of a mass vaccination campaign against a meningitis epidemic in a refugee camp. [PDF]

, 1996
Serogroup A meningococcus epidemics occurred in refugee populations in Zaire in August 1994. The paper analyses the public health impact of a mass vaccination campaign implemented in a large refugee camp.
Blok, L, Boelaert, M, Haelterman, E, Henkens, M, Suetens, C, Toole, M J   +5 more
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Correction to: Harmonizing national abortion and pregnancy prevention laws and policies for sexual violence survivors with the Maputo Protocol: proceedings of a 2016 regional technical meeting in sub-Saharan Africa

BMC Proceedings, 2018
After publication of the original article [1], it was noticed one of the author’s Given Names was misspelled. Sarah Rich’s name was misspelled as Sara Rich. The author’s name is correctly presented in the author list of this correction.
Jill Thompson, Chi-Chi Undie, Avni Amin, Brooke Ronald Johnson, Rajat Khosla, Leopold Ouedraogo, Triphonie Nkurunziza, Sarah Rich, Elizabeth Westley, Melissa Garcia, Harriet Birungi, Ian Askew   +11 more
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Effectiveness of Foreign Refugee Handling Services by Kupang Regional Government with the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

JKAP (Jurnal Kebijakan dan Administrasi Publik), 2022
This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the service for handling the refugee from abroad in Kupang by the Regional Government of Kupang in collaboration with IOM after the delivery from the Kupang Immigration Detention Center and to examine the ...
Ni Putu Tirka Widanti, Charles Fernandes
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