Displaced persons are Refugees, cross borders under coercion by force, leave motherland and difficult to return safely home of parents. Root word is ‘refuge’ from which ‘refugee’ derived, it means hiding shelter danger. Pakistan not signatory Refugee Convention 1951 but member the United Nations (UN). Afghan refugees living in for approximately four decades, Government provides favorable treatm...

Abstract What role does religion play in the displacement, resettlement, and integration of refugees who are brought into United States? This chapter examines an ongoing initiative, Religion Resettlement Project (RRP), that takes as its central premise idea is a critical aspect for understanding refugees’ mental health civic lives, fostering civil society, conceptualizing long-term displacement...

BACKGROUND Women from low-income settings have higher risk of maternal near miss (MNM) and suboptimal care than natives in high-income countries. Iran is the second largest host country for Afghan refugees in the world. Our aim was to investigate whether care quality for MNM differed between Iranians and Afghans and identify potential preventable attributes of MNM. METHODS An MNM audit study ...

This study determined the resistance pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to 4 first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs in children with pulmonary tuberculosis at the Iranian National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases from 1999 to 2004. There were 350 children with positive cultures over the study period: 7 (2%) were resistant to at least one of the 4 anti-tuberculosis drugs. Prim...

BACKGROUND Refugees have poor mental, social and physical health related to experiences of trauma and stresses associated with settlement, however little is known about how refugee families experience maternity and early childhood services. The aim of this study was to explore the responsiveness of health services to the social and mental health of Afghan women and men at the time of having a b...

Introduction Traveling to Afghanistan nowadays is truly health& and life&threatening (1, 2). Destroyed country infrastructure, low sanitary and epidemiologic conditions, low level of medical assistance (lack of medical personnel, shortage of basic medicines and hygienic means) – all contribute to the dissemination of many infectious and non&infectious diseases (3& 5). More than 70% of the healt...

Screening of 488 Syrian unaccompanied minor refugees (< 18 years-old) in Berlin showed low prevalence of intestinal parasites (Giardia, 7%), positive schistosomiasis serology (1.4%) and absence of hepatitis B. Among 44 ill adult Syrian refugees examined at GeoSentinel clinics worldwide, cutaneous leishmaniasis affected one in three patients; other noteworthy infections were active tuberculosis ...