Failure to ensure access for all to prevention and treatment, including vaccines, undermines national responses to COVID-19.
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Health systems are generally structured around nation-states. Migration, especially across national borders, therefore leads to challenges.
Keeping track of migration and urbanisation is challenging, but it’s vital for population health that migration and urbanisation is well understood and planned for.
Health responses need to take on board the fact that the number of women and girls migrating across borders as well as within countries is growing.
It’s difficult to keep track of the medical records of patients on the move and some may be lost to follow-up, presenting further public health challenges and population-wide risks.
Excluding international migrants from the public health care system can result in a population wide risk.
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Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand
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Sasha Frade is a PhD student, as well as an Associate Lecturer, in the Demography and Population Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Researcher in Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Migration and Health Research Associate, UCL
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Lecturer in Refugee Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Honorary Associate Professor, UCL
