Xenia: Refugees, Displaced Persons and Reciprocity

Are we reaching refugees and internally displaced persons?

Public health communication is the production and exchange of information to inform, influence or motivate the target audience to enable desirable, sustainable health practices at individual, community and institutional levels. This paper explores key issues relating to health communication in refugees and other displaced populations, i.e. the “hardly reached”.1 Though there are several challen...

Antiretroviral Therapy for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: A Call for Equity

For people living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV), treatment with antiretroviral therapy (ART) can result in viral suppression, prolonged life expectancy, and reduced HIV transmission [1–3]. To realize these benefits, PLHIV require regular access to medications and supportive services. Within conflict-affected settings, there are unique challenges to providing, accessing, and adhering to ART [4,5]. A...

Health of Refugees and Internally Displaced Peoples

This paper extends the work done in previous reviews by discussing the most recent empirical studies of pathology and services among refugees and by describing unique populations of child and adolescent refugees. Melzak, Shelia (ed.). 1999. Children in Exile: Therapeutic Work in the Community and the Clinic with Child Survivors of Political Violence and War. Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publi...

Excess mortality in refugees, internally displaced persons and resident populations in complex humanitarian emergencies (1998–2012) – insights from operational data

BACKGROUND Complex humanitarian emergencies are characterised by a break-down of health systems. All-cause mortality increases and non-violent excess deaths (predominantly due to infectious diseases) have been shown to outnumber violent deaths even in exceptionally brutal conflicts. However, affected populations are very heterogeneous and refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and reside...

Public Health Equity in Refugee and Other Displaced Persons Settings