Six Reang Refugees Affected By AIDS
At least six Reang refugees staying in camps in North Tripura district have been suffering from AIDS and 12 others found HIV positive, official sources today here said. // This was found in a survey at the refugee camps in Kanchanpur subdivision by the state health department. The department collected blood samples of 120 inmates of which six were found affected by AIDS and...Detention, Uncertainty take their Toll on the Mental Health of Refugees
Refugees residing on temporary protection visas (TPVs) are more likely to suffer severe, persistent and wide-ranging mental health problems than those with permanent protection visas (PPVs) // , specialist trauma psychologists and psychiatrists have revealed. Anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression are much more severe for TPV holders than for PPV holders, mental...Refugees No Burden On Health System
Refugees in Australia have relatively low rates of hospital use, but they may be experiencing barriers to accessing hospital-based health care, refugee health specialists said in the latest edition of the Medical Journal of Australia. Deputy Director of the Melbourne-based Refugee Health Research Centre, Dr Ignacio Correa-Velez, and colleagues studied hospital admissions in Victori...UN Report Warns of 'environmental Refugees'
Climate change will not only hit drier cities like the Indian capital but also modify the migration patterns of rural and urban areas, warns a UN report released Wednesday. "Much of the environmental refugees never return to the rural areas from which they were first displaced," says the 'State of the World Population 2007' report of the United Nations Population Fund (Unfpa)...."Alarming" Malnutrition Among Kenya Refugees: UN Agencies
Three United Nations agencies on Tuesday launched an appeal for 32 million dollars (23.5 million euros) to help combat "alarming levels" of malnutrition amongst Somali and Sudanese refugees based in camps in Kenya. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that as of mid-2006, the acute malnutrition rate stood...