Full Description
This book provides a unique, interdisciplinary and rights-based perspective on sexual and reproductive health, sexualised violence and gender-based violence (GBV) among refugees, displaced persons and other migrants. Drawing on empirical research and case studies from diverse geographical settings, it explores the challenges migrants face in accessing care - including following experiences of sexualised and gender-based violence - adopting a holistic approach that integrates physical, psychological and social dimensions of health. Particular attention is paid to HIV and STIs, cervical cancer prevention, health barriers faced by sex workers, sexual health in conflict and displacement, and health consequences of violence across migration trajectories. This volume also examines the impacts of immigration detention, the wellbeing of healthcare and aid workers in humanitarian contexts, and the role of innovative strategies such as point-of-care testing in reaching underserved populations. Carefully curated by experts from multiple disciplines, Intersections of Sexual Health, Migration and Sexualised Violence: A Public Health and Rights-based Approach will be of interest to clinicians, public health professionals, researchers and policymakers committed to advancing health equity and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Contents
Preface.- 1 Interwoven Realities: Sexualised Violence, Health, and Migration in a Changing World.- 2 HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections in the Middle East and North Africa.- 3 Cervical cancer prevention among refugees and displaced persons.- 4 Borders, Barriers, and Violence: Healthcare Challenges in (Migrant) Sex Work.- 5 Conflict, internal displacement and sexual health - an African experience.- 6 Health outcomes in migrant survivors of sexual violence and abuse.- 7 Advancing an understanding of relational contexts of depression with urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda.- 8 Health in Immigration Detention and Alternatives to Detention.- 9 Caring for refugees and migrants: volunteer & professional aid workers.- 10 Reaching out to those left behind: deployment of point of care (POC) testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, in migrant populations.- 11 Conclusions: towards integrated, rights-based, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral frameworks for migrant health and wellbeing.
