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- Title
Reproductive health services for refugees by refugees: an example from Guinea.
- Authors
von Roenne, Anna; von Roenne, Franz; Kollie, Sarah; Swaray, Yaya; Sondorp, Egbert; Borchert, Matthias
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
SIERRA Leone; REFUGEES; REPRODUCTIVE health services; INTERNATIONAL relief; OFFICE of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; INTERNATIONAL economic assistance
- Publication
Disasters, 2010, Vol 34, Issue 1, p16
- ISSN
0361-3666
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-7717.2009.01112.x