Left Behind: The Multiple Impacts of Covid-19 on Forcibly Displaced People

To better understand vaccination barriers and the impacts of Covid-19 on forcibly displaced persons (FDPs, i.e. refugees, internally (IDPs)), World Vision International carried out a multi-country survey refugee populations in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Uganda, Democratic Republic Congo (DRC), Jordan, Turkey, IDPs Venezuela. The found that combination led to FDPs falling through gaps national campaigns, despite their heightened vulnerability infection transmission. Only one person 1,914 surveyed reported receiving vaccine. also highlighted significant indirect pandemic families, children specifically, with socioeconomic aftershocks worsening children’s deprivations across health nutrition, protection support, education.