Including refugees in disease elimination: challenges observed from a sleeping sickness programme in Uganda

Abstract Background Ensuring equity between forcibly-displaced and host area populations is a key challenge for global elimination programmes. We studied Uganda’s response to the recent refugee influx from South Sudan to identify key governance and operational lessons for national sleeping sickness...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jennifer J. Palmer, Okello Robert, Freddie Kansiime
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:Conflict and Health
Subjects:
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13031-017-0125-x