Publicaties
Moving onward? Secondary movers on the fringes of refugee mobility in Kakuma refugee Camp, Kenya Universiteit Gent
Cholera outbreak in Dadaab Refugee camp, Kenya - November 2015-June 2016 Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Dadaab Refugee camp in Garissa County, Kenya, hosts nearly 340,000 refugees in five subcamps (Dagahaley, Hagadera, Ifo, Ifo2, and Kambioos) (1). On November 18 and 19, 2015, during an ongoing national cholera outbreak (2), two camp residents were evaluated for acute watery diarrhea (three or more stools in ≤24 hours); Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 serotype Ogawa was isolated from stool specimens collected from both patients. Within 1 week of ...
Impact of a mass vaccination campaign against a meningitis epidemic in a refugee camp Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
A refugee camp in the centre of Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
BACKGROUND: In the summer of 2015, the exodus of Syrian war refugees and saturation of refugee camps in neighbouring countries led to the influx of asylum-seekers in European countries, including Belgium. This study aims to describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of asylum seekers who arrived in a huddled refugee camp, in the centre of a well-developed country with all medical facilities.
METHODS: Using a descriptive ...