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Among female Syrian refugees and women displaced within Syria, almost 450,000 are pregnant, many as a result of sexual assault. As midwives try to give these women consistent maternal healthcare, they face limited resources, lack of education and cultural taboos.
Refugees can be a benefit rather than a burden to health services in countries where they live, says refugee health expert Paul Spiegel. He explains that when refugees are integrated into national health systems and allowed to work to pay for care, everyone wins.
The war has increased mental health problems while making it harder for displaced Syrians to access treatment. The Syrian Telemental Health Network lets psychiatrists outside the country provide remote support to colleagues on the ground.
The practice of female genital mutilation is declining in 14 countries, according to a new report by the Population Council, which offers fresh insights into the way FGM is carried out and provides hope for activists campaigning for the procedure to be banned.
The conditions in overcrowded refugee camps pose real risks to women undergoing breast cancer treatment. As part of our series “The Shifting Burden,” we meet a Burundian woman in Tanzania who is fighting the disease in the hope of one day seeing her children again.
Emily A. Lynch Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University
In the second part of her story on hunger among Congolese refugees in Rwanda, anthropologist Emily Lynch discusses an initiative to replace insufficient, poor-quality food rations with cash aid, and why refugees say it hasn’t helped.
Emily A. Lynch Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University
Congolese refugees in Rwanda’s Gihembe camp have complained for years that U.N. food rations are making them sick. Emily Lynch, an anthropologist at Marquette University, describes how the refugees cope with hunger and sickness in the first of a two-part story.
With attacks against hospitals still intensifying, Syria’s health system is barely functioning. Shelly Kittleson joins the families forced in desperation to seek medical treatment outside the country.
Bushra escaped from Iraq, but she and her family remain stuck in a makeshift shelter at Berlin’s former Tempelhof airport. Now the mother of five is expecting again and fears she’ll have to raise her newborn in the shelter’s dire conditions.
To mark International Yoga Day today, we explore how the ancient mind-body practice is helping women and men escaping conflict to heal some of the emotional scars that they carry with them.
Around one in 10 women refugees travelling through Europe is pregnant. Better coordinated approaches from states and NGOs are urgently needed to keep women and their newborn babies safe and well.
In this first installment of a three-part series, we explore the threats faced by female refugees, especially Syrian women – including the risk of being trafficked into the sex trade on their journeys to Europe and even after reaching its shores.
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