Tsorou C, Williams A, van den Boogaard W, Staderini N, Repetto E, et al.
2024-03-01 • Public Health Action
2024-03-01 • Public Health Action
SETTING Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can impact individuals of any demographic. The most common pathogens causing STIs are Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhea and Tr...
Womersley G, Kloetzer L, Van der Bergh R, Venables E, Severy N, et al.
2018-07-26 • Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture
2018-07-26 • Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture
INTRODUCTION The dual trauma of being a victim of torture as well as a refugee is related to a myriad of losses, human rights violations and other dimensions of suffering linked to t...
Alexakis LC, Papachristou A, Baruzzi C, Konstantinou A
2017-07-28 • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
2017-07-28 • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
INTRODUCTION During a refugees' mass-gathering incident in Kos Island, Greece, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; Brussels, Belgium) teams provided emergency medical care. A case report...
Eleftherakos C, van den Boogaard W, Barry D, Severy N, Kotsioni I, et al.
2018-09-05 • Conflict and Health
2018-09-05 • Conflict and Health
BACKGROUND In 2015 and early 2016, close to 1 million migrants transited through Greece, on their way to Western Europe. In early 2016, the closure of the “Balkan-route” and the EU/T...
Ben Farhat J, Blanchet K, Juul Bjertrup P, Veizis A, Perrin C, et al.
2018-03-13 • BMC Medicine
2018-03-13 • BMC Medicine
BACKGROUND Since 2015, Europe has been facing an unprecedented arrival of refugees and migrants: more than one million people entered via land and sea routes. During their travels, r...
A psychiatry trainee reflects on a period of work on the Greek island of Samos with the international medical non-governmental organisation Medécins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borde...
Bjertrup PJ, Bouhenia M, Mayaud P, Perrin C, Ben Farhat J, et al.
2019-10-18 • Social Science and Medicine
2019-10-18 • Social Science and Medicine
In 2015, an estimated 856,723 refugees, predominantly from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq arrived in Greece as an entry point into the European Union. The border of the Former Yugoslav Rep...
Crepet A, Rita F, Reid AJ, van den Boogaard W, Deiana P, et al.
2017-01-13 • Conflict and Health
2017-01-13 • Conflict and Health
In 2015, Italy was the second most common point of entry for asylum seekers into Europe after Greece. The vast majority embarked from war-torn Libya; 80,000 people claimed asylum that ye...
BACKGROUND This article shares the learnings of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s experience of adapting its sexual violence care training for its staff and missions in the Middle Eas...
Makris G, Papageorgiou N, Panagopoulos D, Brubakk KG
2021-05-24 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2021-05-24 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
An unresponsive paediatric patient may present a diagnostic challenge for health professionals, as rapid identification of the cause is needed to provide proper interventions. The follow...
Belanteri RA, Hinderaker SG, Wilkinson E, Episkopou M, Timire C, et al.
2020-09-17 • PLOS One
2020-09-17 • PLOS One
OBJECTIVES Sexual violence can have a destructive impact on the lives of people. It is more common in unstable conditions such as during displacement or migration of people. On the G...
Orcutt M, Mussa R, Hiam L, Veizis A, McCann S, et al.
2020-02-01 • Lancet
2020-02-01 • Lancet
Restrictive migration policies that deny migrants and asylum seekers their right to health—a fundamental right enshrined in universal human rights declarations and treaties since 1948—ar...
Episkopou M, Venables E, Whitehouse K, Eleftherakos C, Zamatto F, et al.
2019-07-22 • Conflict and Health
2019-07-22 • Conflict and Health
BACKGROUND Social support is a core determinant of health and plays a key role in the healing process of people with mental health problems and those who have been exposed to torture...
Tseroni M, Pervanidou D, Tserkezou P, Rachiotis G, Pinaka O, et al.
2015-03-24 • PLOS One
2015-03-24 • PLOS One
Greece, a malaria-free country since 1974, has experienced re-emergence of Plasmodium vivax autochthonous malaria cases in some agriculture areas over the last three years. In early 2012...
