Afghan refugees

Treatment programs are also needed to address the concerns of opiate users in developing countries. For example, some Afghan refugee camps have found a need to treat refugees for opium addiction. These refugees include laborers and those dealing with the pain of war wounds. In such situations, treatment options may include alternative medication and education. 

Within three weeks of the Soviet invasion Afghan refugees streaming across the border into hastily erected camps on the Pakistan border were telling horrific stories of how they had been gassed by the Russians. 

Prevalence and clinical presentation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Pakistani Pathan and Afghan refugee communities in Pakistan implications for the use of primaquine in regional malaria control programmes. 

As it is clear, that we Afghan Refugees were attempting to seek asylum in Australia but unfortunately the navy forces of Australia pushed us back to Indonesia on October 2001 till our cases can be processed by UNHCR. Now it is more than two years that no solution is there for our desperate life. UNHCR does not care about us and other countries also accept refugees through recommendation of UNHCR. 

Therefore, four Afghan Refugees sewed their lips and some other have gone on hunger strike in protest that why UNHCR does not accept us as refugee, why we have been kept deprived of our human rights for years. 

Takver. (2004). Plea for help from Afghan refugees in Indonesia Refugees/Asylum seekers stranded in Indonesia have started a hunger strike to attract attention to their claims. Melbourne Independent Media Center 11 January. Retrieved Mmch 1, 2(X)9, from http //melboume.indymedia.org/print.php id=60155... 

Hoodfar, H. (2008) The Long Road Home Adolescent Afghan Refugee Children in Iran Contemplate "Return". InJ. Hart (ed.). Years of Conflict Adolescence, Political Violence and Displacement. Oxford Berghahn Books. 

Wright, T. (2004) Collateral Coverage Media Images of Afghan Refugees, 2001. Visual Studies 19(1) 97-111. 

Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and Glazebrook, D. (2006) Continued Protection, Sustainable Reintegration Afghan Refugees and Migrants in Iran. Kabul Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit... 

Colville, R. (1998) Afghan Refugees Is International Support Draining away after Two Decades in Exile Refuge 17(4) 6-11. 

Edwards, D. B. (1986) Marginality and Migration Cultural Dimensions of the Afghan Refugee Problem. International Migration Review 20(2) 313-25. 

M. Rowland, G. Downey, A. Rab, T. Freeman, N. Mohammad, H. Rehman, N. Durrani, H. Reybum, C. Curtis, J. Lines, and M. Fayaz. DEET mosquito repellent provides personal protection against malaria A household randomized trial in an Afghan refugee eamp in Pakistan, Tropical Medicine and International Health, 9, 335-342, 2004. 

M. Rowland et al., Deet mosquito repellent provides personal protection against malaria A household randomized trial in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan. Trop. Med. Int. Health. 9 335, 2004. 

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