Prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in migrants in Europe in the era of universal health coverage

Baggaley, Rebecca F.; Zenner, Dominik; Bird, Paul W; Hargreaves, Sally; Griffiths, Chris; Noori, Teymur; Friedland, Jon S.; Nellums, Laura B; Pareek, Manish

doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(22)00174-8

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“…Although there is no consensus in the literature on how RASs could impact the epidemiology of local populations, some studies have discussed the range of risks that could emerge from hosting RASs from different geographical locations with certain infectious disease epidemiology. For example, while some RASs in Europe are found healthier than local populations, they are at higher risk for the main infectious diseases such as TB, HIV, and hepatitis [ 113 ]. This denotes that RASs could potentially be a source of infectious disease for local populations if there is direct or even indirect contact [ 114 ].…”

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“…This denotes that RASs could potentially be a source of infectious disease for local populations if there is direct or even indirect contact [ 114 ]. This highlights the need for the implementation of broad migrant screening campaigns to control infectious disease transmission from such populations [ 113 ]. On the other hand, it was found that RAS population migration has played a major role in disease transmission by starting outbreaks and increasing the prevalence and incidence of infectious diseases in the country of asylum.…”

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Communicable Diseases Prevalence among Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Taha

Durham

Reid

2023

Infectious Disease Reports

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Background: Communicable diseases remain a significant global health issue. The increase in refugees and asylum seekers associated with conflicts may alter the burden of communicable diseases in host countries. We conducted a systematic review of the prevalence of TB, HBC, HCV, and HIV among refugees and asylum seekers by regions of asylum and origin. Methods: Four electronic databases were searched from initiation to the 25 December 2022. Prevalence estimates were pooled into a random-effect model and were stratified by the region of origin and asylum. Meta-analysis was conducted to explore the heterogeneity of the included studies. Results: The most-reported asylum region was The Americas, represented by the United States of America. Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean was the region of the most-reported origin. The highest reported prevalence of active TB and HIV was among African refugees and asylum seekers. The highest reported prevalence of latent TB, HBV and HCV was among Asian and Eastern Mediterranean refugees and asylum seekers. High heterogeneity was found regardless of the communicable disease type or stratification. Conclusion: This review provided insights about refugees’ and asylum seekers’ status around the world and attempted to connect refugees’ and asylum seekers’ distribution and the burden of communicable diseases.

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Communicable Diseases Prevalence among Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Taha

Durham

Reid

2023

Infectious Disease Reports

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“…However, in the context of the disruption of essential TB services due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is worth mentioning some successes in the implementation of innovative responses to TB [ 19 , 28 ]. These include multi-disease screening and testing strategies (GeneXpert for TB and COVID-19); automated chest X-ray interpretation and cough detection technologies at the point-of-care; and a shift from vertical to integrated approaches such as the use of community health workers to improve early TB case detection, diagnosis and care [ 19 , 27 , 28 ]; as well as the definition of a roadmap for access to the preventive screening of vulnerable populations in developed countries in line with the principles of universal health coverage [ 29 ]. Regarding TBI prevention, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to improvements in infection prevention and control within health systems, including the increased use of masks by patients and personal protective equipment by health care providers, resulting in a reduction in nosocomial transmission of both COVID-19 and TBI [ 30 ].…”

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Management of Tuberculosis Infection: Current Situation, Recent Developments and Operational Challenges

2023

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Tuberculosis infection (TBI) is defined as a state of infection in which individuals host live Mycobacterium tuberculosis with or without clinical signs of active TB. It is now understood as a dynamic process covering a spectrum of responses to infection resulting from the interaction between the TB bacilli and the host immune system. The global burden of TBI is about one-quarter of the world’s population, representing a reservoir of approximately 2 billion people. On average, 5–10% of people who are infected will develop TB disease over the course of their lives, but this risk is enhanced in a series of conditions, such as co-infection with HIV. The End-TB strategy promotes the programmatic management of TBI as a crucial endeavor to achieving global targets to end the TB epidemic. The current development of new diagnostic tests capable of discriminating between simple TBI and active TB, combined with novel short-course preventive treatments, will help achieve this goal. In this paper, we present the current situation and recent developments of management of TBI and the operational challenges.

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“…At present, although an increasing number of international studies focus on the impact of natural and accidental disasters on urban public safety and urban disaster prevention and mitigation, there is a lack of research on urban public health emergencies (19). In fact, epidemic prevention facilities are rarely mentioned in comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation plans for cities around the world (20,21). Most of the studies about urban disaster facilities focus on assessing the ability of cities to cope with natural disasters from the perspectives of floods, fires, and earthquakes, combing with population data, urban infrastructure, social factors and so on (7,(22)(23)(24)(25).…”

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Are the epidemic prevention facilities effective? How cities should choose epidemic prevention facilities: Taking Wuhan as an example

Hua

Ran

2023

Front. Public Health

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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the limitations of urban public health emergency response capabilities. Taking Wuhan as an example, this study used breakpoint regression, kernel density analysis, overlay analysis, and accessibility analysis from Stata and ArcGIS, and divided epidemic prevention facilities into the basic epidemic prevention facilities (hospitals), and the emergency epidemic prevention facilities (mobile cabin hospitals) for further analysis. The results showed that over 70% of the basic epidemic prevention facilities in Wuhan were located in high density population areas. On the contrary, most of the emergency epidemic prevention facilities were located in low density population areas. The local treatment effect of the implementation of the emergency epidemic prevention facility policy is about 1, indicating that there was a significant impact of emergency epidemic prevention facilities on outbreak control, which passed the bandwidth test. What’s more, the analysis of the accessibility of residential points revealed that more than 67.3% of people from the residential points could arrive at the epidemic prevention facilities within 15 min, and only 0.1% of them took more than 20 min to arrive. Therefore, the epidemic prevention facilities can effectively curb the spread of the epidemic, and people from residential areas can quickly get there. This study summarized the spatial characteristics of epidemic prevention facilities in Wuhan and analyzed the importance of them, thus providing a new perspective for future research on upgrading the city’s comprehensive disaster prevention system.

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Prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in migrants in Europe in the era of universal health coverage

Cited by 26 publications

References 49 publications

Communicable Diseases Prevalence among Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Communicable Diseases Prevalence among Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Management of Tuberculosis Infection: Current Situation, Recent Developments and Operational Challenges

Are the epidemic prevention facilities effective? How cities should choose epidemic prevention facilities: Taking Wuhan as an example

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