Conflict and Health
[Accessed 9 May 2015]
http://www.conflictandhealth.com/

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Letter to Editor
Access to healthcare for the most vulnerable migrants: a humanitarian crisis
Kevin Pottie1*, Jorge Pedro Martin2, Stephen Cornish3, Linn Maria Biorklund4, Ivan Gayton5, Frank Doerner6 and Fabien Schneider3
Author Affiliations
Conflict and Health 2015, 9:16 doi:10.1186/s13031-015-0043-8
Published: 7 May 2015
Abstract (provisional)
A series of Médecins Sans Frontières projects over the past decade have consistently documented high rates of physical and sexual trauma, extortion and mental illness amidst severe healthcare, food, and housing limitations. Complex interventions were needed to begin to address illness and barriers to healthcare and to help restore dignity to the most vulnerable women, children and men. Promising interventions included mobile clinics, use of cultural mediators, coordination with migrant-friendly entities and NGOs and integrating advocacy programs and mental health care with medical services. Ongoing interventions, research and coordination are needed to address this neglected humanitarian crisis.