Pakistan's refugees face uncertain future

Rashid, Audil; Adnan, Mian Nazish

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(09)61218-6

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“…Similar challenges to mass gatherings present themselves at refugee camps, but with shorter time to prepare for hot weather and heat extremes, fewer trained personnel, and less resources and electricity. 85,97 Women in refugee camps can be at a greater risk of heatrelated illness due to segregation in insulative tents, and further restrictions to food, water, and medical care. 85…”

Section: Refugee Campsmentioning

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Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities

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Section: Refugee Campsmentioning

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Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities

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“…Hand searches yielded two relevant papers on refugees. First, a Lancet paper on vulnerable refugees in camps near the Afghan border in Pakistan, which describes the frequent danger of snakebite, especially while walking at night ( Rashid and Adnan, 2009 ). Another paper describes this same danger for refugees in Kakuma, Kenya ( Bolon et al, 2020 ).…”

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Snakebite envenoming in humanitarian crises and migration: A scoping review and the Médecins Sans Frontières experience

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Snakebite envenoming is a public health concern in many countries affected by humanitarian crises. Its magnitude was recognized internationally but associations between snakebite peaks and humanitarian crises were never clearly established or analysed. This scoping review searched any available evidence of this hypothesized association between snakebite types of crises, through PubMed/Medline by two researchers. The search also included hand searching, and reports from humanitarian organizations working in this area. The scoping review yielded 41 results. None described a robust epidemiological link or evidence of causality. There is an evidence gap regarding our research question. Several publications however point or hint towards the occurrence of snakebite outbreaks during conflict, displacement, floods, and migration of impoverished agricultural workers. Non-systematic screening yielded another 11 publications (52 in total). We found Médecins Sans Frontières routine reports showing that 6469 patients were admitted in 2019 throughout its projects in 17 countries. The impact of snakebite was the highest in four countries particularly affected by humanitarian crises, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, and Yemen, with some hospitals receiving more than 1000 annual admissions. Time correlations with conflict and events are shown in Figures. We found no published epidemiological data formally showing any associations between humanitarian crises and snakebite incidence. However, the search publications showing peaks during crises, and monitoring curves in four countries point towards an increased risk during humanitarian crises. We call for urgent population-based studies and surveillance. Stakeholders should consider upgrading snakebite care and antivenom supply during humanitarian crises in snakebite-endemic countries.

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“…This raises important concerns about the impact the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is going to have in such settings [ 23 ]. Moreover, many camps, especially those in tropical Asia and Africa, host diverse venomous animals such as spiders, scorpions and snakes, which put refugees at risk of potentially life-threatening stings or bites [ [24] , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] ].…”

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One Health education in Kakuma refugee camp (Kenya): From a MOOC to projects on real world challenges

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Today, the world counts millions of refugees but only a fraction of them have access to higher education. Despite the multiple public health problems in refugee camps and the need to build local capacities to prevent and combat them, University level courses in public health are largely unavailable for refugees. This paper describes the development, implementation and evaluation of an innovative two-module blended-learning programme on One Health in Kakuma refugee camp (Kenya). This programme combines: (I) Interdisciplinary and multi-expert MOOC on “ Global Health at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem interface ”; (II) peer-to-peer learning involving students from University of Geneva Master of science in Global Health and research collaborations around specific and locally-relevant problems; (III) online mentoring and lecturing by experts from the Institute of Global Health of the University of Geneva in Kakuma. A total of 67 refugees applied to Module 1; 15 started the Module 1 in October 2017, of these 14 completed it and 6 passed the exams, finally five students started the Module 2 in October 2018 which they all passed in February 2019. Five student-led collaborative projects were developed focusing on the conception of a community-based monitoring system for prevalent diseases in the camp. With such a pedagogic approach, the programme provides an overview on Global Health challenges at the human-animal-ecosystem interface and the importance of the One Health approach, and introduces students to scientific research through interdisciplinary and international collaborations and innovation. The high number of applicants and positive feedback from students in Kakuma show the interest in One Health education in the camp. This learning experience ultimately aims at building local knowledge and capacity fostering “One Health” champions to reinforce local and national health system. This framework for One Health education could be potentially scaled up to other camps in Africa and the world.

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Pakistan's refugees face uncertain future

Cited by 6 publications

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Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities

Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities

Snakebite envenoming in humanitarian crises and migration: A scoping review and the Médecins Sans Frontières experience

One Health education in Kakuma refugee camp (Kenya): From a MOOC to projects on real world challenges

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