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Refugee mental health challenges in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Frank G. Njenga
Frank G. Njenga*
Affiliation:
African Association of Psychiatrists and Allied Professions, Upper Hill Medical Centre, 3rd Floor, Suite 3C, Ralph Bunche Road, PO Box 73749, Nairobi 00200, Kenya, email fnjenga@africaonline.co.ke
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Nearly all low-income countries are either just themselves emerging from conflict or neighbour a country that has just emerged from one. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (http://www.unhcr.org), of the 38 million uprooted people in 2003 worldwide, Africa played host to 13 million internally displaced persons and 3.5 million refugees.

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Thematic Papers — The Mental Health of Refugees
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International Psychiatry , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 3 - 4
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