HEALTH

NOVEMBER 2023

• AIDS Care - (pay for access) - Exploring a syndemic of poverty, cumulative violence, and HIV vulnerability among refugee youth: multi-method insights from a humanitarian setting in Uganda

• Daily Telegraph - Australia - (video) - Refugees use plants to fight malaria & climate change in Uganda

• Global Health Annual Review - Menstrual Health Management in Bidibidi, Uganda

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023 Health & Nutrition Dashboard - Quarter 3, January - September 2023

• IFRC/Netherlands RC/URC - Knowledge, Attitude and Practices baseline report: Pilot Programmatic Partnership Uganda 2022-2024, January 2023

• The Independent - Psycho-social support in Nakivale settlement faces challenges

• IPC - Acute Malnutrition Situation April - September 2023 and Projection for October 2023 - March 2024 (Issued in November 2023)

• Makerere University - The promotion and protection of the right to access maternal health care for refugee women in Uganda: a case study of Nakivale Refugee Settlement

• Nile Post - Mental Health concerns rise in Nakivale refugee settlement

• NTV - (video) - Concerns rise over refugee suicides in Western Uganda

• Open University - New report highlights ways to improve sexuality education for refugee youth in Western Uganda

• Realising Socio-Economic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Africa - (pay for access) - Maternal Health Rights of Refugee Women in Uganda: Confronting the Multiple Layers of Vulnerability

• Research Gate - (request for access) - Maternal Health Rights of Refugee Women in Uganda: Confronting the Multiple Layers of Vulnerability

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SEPTEMBER 2023

• BMJ - Prevention and promotion effects of Self Help Plus: secondary analysis of cluster randomised controlled trial data among South Sudanese refugee women in Uganda

• New Vision - West Nile District gets health project

• Organisatin of Islamic Cooperation - OIC Medical Camp in Uganda Successfully Treats Hundreds for Hernia, Cataracts, and Related Illnesses

• SJH Research - Utiliization of antenatal care services among refugee teenage mothers at Nakivale refugee settlement in Western Uganda. A phenomenological study

• Uganda Radio Network - (log in required) - New HIV Infections in Refugee Hosting Areas Worry Adjumani Officials

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AUGUST 2023

• BMJ - Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry representative survey

• European Journal of Psychotraumatology - Gender differences in substance use and associated factors among urban refugees in Uganda

• Monitor - Yumbe refugee girls struggling with menstrual hygiene

• New Vision -

• Refugee hosting districts get health emergency response boost

• Over 3000 poeple to benefit from GROW project

• Research Square - Understanding the organisation and delivery of health service following the repatriation of South Sudanese refugees from the West Nile districts in Uganda

• Science Direct - The role of mindfulness, psychological capital, and social capital in the well-being of refugees in Uganda

• Syracuse University - The Geopolitics of Refuge and Reproduction: Maternal Health and Healthcare of Congolese Refugees in Flight, Displacement, and Resettlement

• WFP - ‘I feel like the proudest mother in the world’: WFP supports breastfeeding in Uganda - How the Swedish-funded NutriCash project, implemented by UNICEF and the World Food Programme, is changing the lives of refugee women

• Uganda Red Cross - Menstral Hygiene kits restore dignity and empower girls and women in Bidibidi refugee settlement

 

JULY 2023

• BMC Public Health - Understanding the barriers and facilitators of COVID-19 risk mitigation strategy adoption and COVID-19 vaccination in refugee settlements in Uganda: a qualitative study

• ELRHA -

• Impact Case Study: Exploring refugee knowledge and compliance to COVID-19 guidelines in Uganda

• Impact Case Study: Effectiveness of a group-based stress management self-help programme for humanitarian settings

• The Independent - Kyaka II refugee settlement gets UGX 287M nutrition facilities

• International Health - Kukaa Salama (Staying Safe): a pre-post trial of an interactive informational mobile health intervention for increasing COVID-19 prevention practices with urban refugee youth in Uganda

• IRC - The IRC and the EU conclude a partnership to contain epidemics impacting refugees and host communities in Uganda

• MDPI - How Self-Efficacy and Agency Influence Risky Sexual Behavior among Adolescents in Northern Uganda

• The Monitor - Refugee camps get new health facilities worth Shs287m

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JUNE 2023

• NEW - Open University - Knowledge, resources and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights: The views and experiences of young refugees living in Kyangwali refugee settlement, Western Uganda

• BMC Women's Health - Using human-centered design to co-design dedicated menstrual health spaces with people who menstruate in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda: Learnings for further adaptation and scale in humanitarian settings

• Research Square - Bayesian belief network modeling approach for predicting and ranking risk factors for malaria infections among children under five years in refugee settlements in Uganda

• UN Women - Hope away from home: Addressing mental health issues among refugees

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MAY 2023

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth- Determinants of male involvement in antenatal care at Palabek Refugee Settlement, Lamwo district, Northern Uganda

• Council for International Development - Malnutrition skyrocketing in Uganda refugee settlements

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Health & Nutrition Dashboard - Quarter 1, January - March 2023

• ICRW - The SRHR Needs and Challenges of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Humanitarian Settings in Nigeria and Uganda: A Quantitative Report

• IRC - IRC warns of alarming increase in acute malnutrition cases in Uganda’s refugee settlements

 

APRIL 2023

• African Health Sciences - Examining the maternal health services-seeking behaviour among adolescent urban refugees in Kampala, Uganda

• CDC - Uganda Refugee Survey Shows Low Prevalence of HIV and Strong Progress Towards Controlling the HIV Epidemic

• Europe PMC - Determinants of malaria infections among children in refugee settlements in Uganda during 2018-2019

• IDRC - The sexual and reproductive health needs and challenges of adolescent girls and young women in humanitarian settings in Nigeria and Uganda: A Quantitative Report

• Red Cross - Uganda Red Cross Society boosts menstrual hygiene in Nakivale refugee settlement.

• USAID - Nutrition Status of Refugee and Host-Country Children: Negotiating for Equal Distribution of Relief Food during Emergencies in Uganda

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MARCH 2023

• Columbia Word Projects - Ubumwe: Exploring Arts for Education and Psychosocial Support with Refugee Children and Youth - The pilot program will be implemented in Kyangwali aims aims to bolster psychosocial and educational outcomes among children and youth through the integration of arts in education and community spaces

• Conflict and Health - Sustainability of health services in refugee hosting districts: a qualitative study of health services in three west Nile refugee hosting districts, Uganda

• East African Journal of Interdisciplinery Studies - A Systematic Review of the Healthcare Access and Utilization Barriers Faced by Refugees in Uganda

• ELRHA - Research snapshot: Improving the mental health of male refugees

• Global Public Health - Multi-method findings on COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among urban refugee adolescents and youth in Kampala, Uganda

• GoU/UNHCR -

• Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Quarter 4, January - December 2022 - Health & Nutrition Dashboard; Food Security Dashboard

• IGAD - IGAD to Conduct a Study to Assess the Human Rights and Gender Related Barriers to TB and COVID-19 Access to Services within Refugee Settlements in the IGAD Region

• International Breastfeeding Journal - Breastfeeding among South Sudanese refugees in protracted settlements in Adjumani district, Uganda: facilitators and barriers

• International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology - Psychological Capital and Quality of life of Refugees in Uganda During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Serial Mediation Model

• Journal of Science and Tecnology - Evaluation of the Risk Factors and Prevalence of Cerebral Malaria in Children below 10 Years in Kiryandogo General Hospital.

• The Informer - TELEMED organises mental health camp in Nakivale refugee camp

• Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - Factors associated with continuity of care in hypertension and type 2 diabetes among forcibly displaced persons in the Bidibidi refugee settlement in Uganda: Protocol for a cross-sectional, mixed-methods study

• Uganda Red Cross - URCS Distributes Menstrual Hygiene kits to Congolese refugee women and girls in Bundibugyo District.

• Viamo - Using Technology for Better Health Outcomes: Insights from Implementing “Dial-COVID” in Uganda’s Refugee Settlements

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FEBRUARY 2023

• American Research Journal of Humanities & Social Science (ARJHSS)R) - The influence of COVID 19 on the social economic welfare of refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement.

• Current Developments in Nutrition - A Peer-Led Integrated Nutrition Education Intervention through Care Groups Improved Complementary Feeding of Infants in Postemergency Settlements in the West-Nile Region in Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Trial

• Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology - Psychological flexibility in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda as a mechanism for change within a guided self-help intervention.

• Journal of Scientific Research and Reports - Humanitarian Food Assistance and Nutrition Outcomes among Refugees: A Historical Perspective

• Makerere University - Factors associated with Covid-19 vaccine uptake among adult refugees in Kyangwali, Kikuube district-Uganda.

• MedRxiv - Determinants of male involvement in antenatal care at Palabek Refugee Settlement, Lamwo district, Northern Uganda

• Mendeley Data - Determinants of male involvement in antenatal care in Palabek Refugee settlement,Northern Uganda

• National Library of Medicine - Refugee caregivers: Associations between psychosocial wellbeing and parenting in Uganda

• PLOS One - Leveraging interactive voice response technology to mitigate COVID-19 risk in refugee settlements in Uganda: Lessons learned implementing “Dial-COVID” a toll-free mobile phone symptom surveillance and information dissemination tool

• Stress and Health : Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress - (pay for access) - Refugee caregivers: Associations between psychosocial wellbeing and parenting in Uganda.

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JANUARY 2023

• NEW - Makerere University - Access to selected sexual reproductive health services among adolescent refugees in Rhino camp refugee settlement in Arua district.

• European Journal of Psycho-traumatology - Community based socio-therapy for depressive
  symptomatology of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda (CoSTAR): a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

• Food Security - A healthy diet for a growing population: a case study of Arua, Uganda

• The Independent - 60 refugees committed suicide in Uganda-UNHCR Report

• Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry - Improving adolescent mental health and protection in humanitarian settings: longitudinal findings from a multi-arm randomized controlled trial of child-friendly spaces among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda

• Makerere University -

  • Nutrition status and dietary adequacy of adolescents in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda: a human rights approach

  • Acculturation, subjective well-being and depression among South Sudan Refugees in Uganda

  • Prevalence and factors associated with stunting among children aged 6-59 months in Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, Kyegegwa District

  • Association of infant and young child feeding practices and nutrition status of children 6-23 months in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, Yumbe District Uganda.

• PLOS - One - Leveraging interactive voice response technology to mitigate COVID-19 risk in refugee settlements in Uganda: Lessons learned implementing “Dial-COVID” a toll-free mobile phone symptom surveillance and information dissemination tool

• REACH - Rapid Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) assessment on the 2022 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak

• Research Gate - Climate Change Aggravating Migration and Health Issues in the African Context: The Views and Direct Experiences of a Community of Interest in the Field

• Research Square - Determinants of malaria infections among children in refugee settlements in Uganda. Analysis of data from Uganda malaria indicator survey, 2018-19

• SoS Medias Burundi - Nakivale (Uganda) : cardiovascular diseases kill many elderly people

• Student's Journal of Health Research Africa - Factors associated with Ebola preventive measures adherence among refugees in Kampala : A cross-sectional study

• UNHCR - Uganda - Analysis of suicide incidents, Q4 2022

• UNHCR/UNICEF - Responsible Data for Refugee Children in Uganda - Improving Data Systems for Mental Health and Psychosocial Services Through A Studio Series

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DECEMBER 2022

• Early Childhood Development in Humanitarian Crises

• African Journal on Reproductive Health - Sexual and reproductive health factors associated with child, early and forced marriage and partnerships among refugee youth in a humanitarian setting in Uganda: Mixed methods findings

• Conflict and Society - “How to Live a Good Life” - Self-managing Reproductive Health for Adolescent Refugees in Kampala

• ELRHA - Research snapshot: Reaching refugees during the COVID19 pandemic

• GoU - Health Sector Integrated Refugee Response Plan 2019 - 2024

• IDOSR Journal of Science and Technology - Prevalence of AKI among Children with Severe Malaria at Kiryandongo General Hospital, Uganda

• ILO - Young Congolese refugee fights the Malaria endemic in Uganda

• IRC - The IRC warns of the latent reproductive health and child protection issues facing girls in emergency situations

• Infectious Diseases of Poverty - Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions against infectious diseases among crisis-affected populations: a scoping review

• IPC - Partial IPC Acute Malnutrition analysis in refugee settlements and host districts - acute malnutrition analysis - February 2022 - January 2023

• JMIR - Mobile Health-Supported Virtual Reality and Group Problem Management Plus: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Trial Among Urban Refugee and Displaced Youth in Kampala, Uganda (Tushirikiane4MH, Supporting Each Other for Mental Health)

• Research Gate - The influence of intra household gendered socio-economic relations on access to maternal health services : a case study of Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement

• SN Applied Sciences - Estimating the potential of spices for mineral provision in a refugee context in East Africa

• Women and Health - Factors associated with motherhood among urban refugee adolescent girls and young women in informal settlements in Kampala, Uganda

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NOVEMBER 2022

• Current Psychology - Associations between potential traumatic experience and mental health in adolescent refugee populations: A scoping review

• ELRHA - The realities of implementing Self-Help Plus – What have we learnt so far?

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Health & Nutrition Dashboard - Quarter 3, July - September 2022

• Illinois News Bureau - Refugee teens in Uganda who 'sext' more likely to use condoms, studies find

• IPC

  • Acute Malnutrition Analysis in Refugee Settlements and Host Districts, February 2022 - January 2023 (Issued November 25, 2022)

  • Acute Food Insecurity Analysis in Refugee Settlements and Host Districts, June 2022 - January 2023 (Issued November 25, 2022)

  • Uganda [Karamoja, Teso & Refugee Hosting Districts]: Food Security & Nutrition Snapshot | AFI: June 2022 - January 2023 l AMN: February 2022 - January 2023 (Published on November 25, 2022)

• Journal of Global Health Reports - Mental disorders and lack of social support among refugees and Ugandan nationals screening for HIV at health centers in Nakivale refugee settlement in southwestern Uganda

• ResearchSquare - Factors Associated with Decision Making about Family Planning Use by Refugee and Host Population in Adjumani District, West Nile, Uganda; A Cross Sectional Study

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OCTOBER 2022

• BMC Public Health - COVID-19 epidemiology and changes in health service utilization in Uganda’s refugee settlements during the first year of the pandemic

• Bukedde - Refugees with disabilities do not have access to services

• Conflict and Health - Measuring results of humanitarian action: adapting public health indicators to different contexts - Numerous efforts have contributed to standardizing and presenting timely public health information in humanitarian settings over the last two decades. Health outcomes are rarely measured due to the challenges of measuring them using gold-standard methods that are difficult to implement in humanitarian settings.The authors discussed indicators in terms of utilization, perceived validity, feasibility and actionability, with more than 100 humanitarian actors working in a variety of organizations (national government offices, UN and NGOs) in five different crises, including Uganda

• European Journal of Psychotraumatology - Trajectories of psychosocial symptoms and wellbeing in asylum seekers and refugees exposed to traumatic events and resettled in Western Europe, Turkey, and Uganda

• Emerging Infectious diseases - Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in Refugee Settlement during COVID-19 Pandemic, Uganda, April 2021

• Global Compact - Integration of refugee health services into the Ministry of Health National Services in Uganda

• IAI Africa - ‘The food is not enough’: disability and food aid technologies in a Ugandan refugee settlement

• UNHCR - Refugees need better mental health support amid rising displacement

• Water Mission - Restoration and Trauma Healing for Refugees in Northern Uganda

• Wellcome Open Research - Maximising impactful and locally relevant mental health research: ethical considerations - Achieving ethical and meaningful mental health research in diverse global settings requires approaches to research design, conduct, and dissemination that prioritise a contextualised approach to impact and local relevance. Through case studies including Uganda, this research considers the nuances to achieving ethical and meaningful mental health research.

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SEPTEMBER 2022

• BMC Health Services Research - Assessing equity of access and affordability of care among South Sudanese refugees and host communities in two districts in Uganda: a cross-sectional survey - the objective of this study was to examine equity in terms of health needs, service utilisation, and health care payments both within and between South Sudanese refugees and hosts communities (Ugandan nationals), in two districts of Uganda.

• Conflict and Health - A scoping review of FGM in humanitarian settings: an overlooked phenomenon with lifelong consequences - Little is known about FGM rates and practices in humanitarian settings, and about the impact of crisis on the drivers and consequences of FGM. This scoping review found that despite an increase in research on FGM in humanitarian settings, there is still a notable dearth of studies investigating the impact of emergencies on FGM and the factors that propel it. More research and documentation of evidence are needed to inform interventions and policies.

• Journal of Food Composition and Analysis - Elemental profile of food aids and mineral provision for pregnant and lactating refugee women

• RD4C -  Addressing Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Refugee Children

• UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022-2023, Health & Nutrition Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2022

• University of Amsterdam - Negotiating sexuality amidst refugee uncertainty - Burundian adolescent refugees in Mahama camp in Rwanda and Nakivale settlement in Uganda

  • Lost in freedom: Ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda

  • Making ‘the process’: Sexual vulnerability and Burundian refugee boys and young men’s strategies for onward migration from Nakivale refugee settlement in Uganda

 

AUGUST 2022

• BJPsych Open - SH+ 360: novel model for scaling up a mental health and psychosocial support programme in humanitarian settings

• Canadian Lutheran  - Safe Spaces for Women in Uganda - Help provide counselling and skills training for refugee women and girls in Northern Uganda

• Computers in Human Behaviour - Digital technologies, equitable gender norms, and sexual health practices across sexting patterns among forcibly displaced adolescents in the slums of kampala, Uganda - This study highlights potential positive outcomes associated with sexting (i.e., condom efficacy and use) as well as its concerning correlated factors (e.g., less access to sexual and reproductive health services) among refugee adolescents. Based on these findings, we offer recommendations for future digital sexual health interventions.

• GAVI - Aid groups, authorities coordinate efforts to intensify refugee vaccination in Uganda - With refugees making up 3.3% of Uganda’s population, humanitarian groups and authorities are making efforts to get vaccines to displaced families.

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022-2023, - Quarter 1, January - March 2022 - Health and Nutrition dashboard Quarter 1 2022

• HSOA Journal of Reproductive Medicine, Gynaecology & Obstetrics Benefits and Barriers to the Utilisation of Safe Male Circumcision Services by Young Men Aged 15-24 in Rhino Camp Refugees Settlement in Arua District- Uganda

• Makerere University - Using Intervention Mapping methodology to design an HIV linkage intervention in a refugee settlement in rural Uganda.

•  PLOS Global Public Health -

  • Factors associated with poor treatment outcomes among tuberculosis patients in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, Uganda, 2016–2017

  • Human rights-based accountability for sexual and reproductive health and rights in humanitarian settings: Findings from a pilot study in northern Uganda

• Research Square - Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Psychological Wellbeing of Refugees in Africa.

• Simbi Foundation - Addressing The Mental Wellbeing Of South Sudanese Refugees In Uganda

• UNDP - The Value Chain Market Assessment and Upgrading: Highlights of the Value Chain Assessment and Recommendations in northern Uganda - Obongi, Adjumani and Lamwo

• UNFPA -video - Delivering life-saving sexual reproductive health and rights services in refugee settlements

• UNHCR/IGAD - IGAD and UNHCR Signed a PR-SR Grant Agreement of US $1,738,528 - The support aims to improve the availability and utilisation of TB and COVID-19 response in the refugee camps in Djibouti, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda, through strengthening the diagnostic capacity of TB, MDR-TB, TB/HIV and COVID-19.

• USAID - Refugee Rapid Market Systems Assessments Nakivale, Rwamwanja and Palabek Settlements (August 16, 2022)

 

JULY 2022

• Afrika Focus - Psychosocial Support and Protection for Refugee and Host Communities in Uganda: A Needs Assessment

• BMJ Health - Examining the substance use, violence and HIV and AIDS (SAVA) syndemic among urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda: cross-sectional survey findings

• Cogitatio - Urban Refugees’ Digital Experiences and Social Connections During Covid‐19 Response in Kampala, Uganda

• EUI Migration Policy Centre - “Migration Governance and Migration Diplomacy in Uganda”

• Global Social Welfare -(pay for content)  War-Affected South Sudanese in Settings of Preflight, Flight, and Resettlement: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Trauma-Associated Mental Disorders

• Global Public Health - Mixed-methods findings from the Ngutulu Kagwero (agents of change) participatory comic pilot study on post-rape clinical care and sexual violence prevention with refugee youth in a humanitarian setting in Uganda

• The Independent - Congolese refugee children battle malnutrition

• International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Analysis - The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on The Livelihood of Urban Refugees in Arua City, Uganda

• Movenid - Ugandan Refugees Suffer from Increased Mental Health and Substance Use Problems

• Nile Post - Opinion: Economic and financial inclusion critical for safety of urban refugees

• Plos Global Public Health - “They will say you want to make their home die”: A mixed methods study to assess modern family planning use in partnered South Sudanese refugee and host populations in Northern Uganda

• Reach/UNHCR/UNICEF - Child Protection Assessment in Refugee-hosting Districts (May 2022)

• Research Square -

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Emergency Communities. A survey on the Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, South Western Uganda

  • Is it COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy or inquisitiveness? Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among the adult population in Northern Uganda. A cross-sectional study.

  • Lived Experiences Of GBV Survivors, As They Try Seeking For Help In Emergency Communities, Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, Southwestern Uganda

• UICC - Providing cancer care to refugees in Uganda

• Uganda Radio Network - Congolese Refugee Children Battle Malnutrition

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JUNE 2022

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• AVSI/IOM/IIRC/LWF/MTI/SCI/URC/UNCF/UNHCR/UNFP/WFP/WHO - Joint Monitoring Report in Refugee Hosting Districts, October 2021 - provides an analysis of the health sector performance in respect to refugee health focusing on quality of serviced delivery, level of integration of refugee health in the public health system, access to essential health care by host communities, challenges and mitigation measures to address them.

• Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research - Addressing the State of Mental Health in South Sudanese refugees across Uganda

• Current Developments in Nutrition -

• Maternal Peer Support Through a Caregroup Model Improves Complementary Feeding of Infants by Refugee Mothers in Post-Emergency Settlements in the West-Nile Region in Uganda

• Perinatal Depression and Breastfeeding: A Mixed Methods Study Among South Sudanese Refugees in the West Nile Region in Uganda

• Health Science Journal - Factors Influencing Hepatitis B Virus Co-Infection among HIV Patients Attending Health Care Services in Mungula Health Centre IV Adjumani District, West Nile Region Uganda. Hospital- based cross-sectional study

• PLOS Medical - Addressing the impacts of COVID-19 on refugee health

• UN News - First Person: The South Sudanese refugee helping others through trauma

• World Vision - Teenage pregnancy does not mean the end for refugee girls in Uganda