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...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-12-01
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Series: | Conflict and Health |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13031-017-0125-x |