Reproductive health services for refugees by refugees

An example from Guinea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3897709
AutoresAnna Von Roenne (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), Franz Von Roenne (Ministry of Health), Sarah Kollie, Yaya Swaray, Egbert Sondorp (0000-0003-2325-7266, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Marciele Borchert (0009-0009-3053-9852, Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde), Matthias Borchert
Año2010
Volumen34
Número1
Páginas16-29
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDisasters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-7717.2009.01112.x
PMID19459901
OpenAlexW2007993030
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas6

The need to involve refugees in their own reproductive health (RH) services has long been recognised, but there is a lack of published examples describing how this can be achieved collaboratively between refugee initiatives, UNHCR, bilateral development organisations and international relief agencies. This paper outlines the work, outputs and lessons learnt of the Reproductive Health Group (RHG), an organisation of Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugee midwives and laywomen providing RH services to fellow refugees in Guinea's Forest Region between 1996 and 2000. Working as part of the Guinean health system, RHG midwives and community facilitators helped make the RH services in their region the most effective in Guinea at the time. Looking at RHG's achievements, the challenges it faced and partly overcame, it is argued that refugee organisations can plan and implement RH services for refugees where UNHCR and its international partners ensure that they receive funding and technical assistance

Economic growth · Environmental health · Ethnology · New guinea · Political science · Population · Refugee · Reproductive health · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Global Maternal and Child Health · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Identity, and Health · Nursing