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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2008;300(5):493.

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Conflicts in northern Uganda over the past 2 decades haveforced up to 2 million individuals to flee their homes and relocate to camps within the country. This situation has left many without necessary health services and other resources, including lifesaving antiretroviral drugs for persons with HIV/AIDS.

While providing adequate medical care to internally displaced persons poses a challenge, a group of researchers and health care workers in a conflict-torn region in Uganda have demonstrated that it can be achieved through an organized humanitarian effort.

Nearly 90% of the population living in the Gulu District and other Ugandan regions most affected by violence had relocated to camps as of 2005 (http://www.who.int/hac/crises/uga/sitreps/Ugandamortsurvey.pdf). There, HIV/AIDS has been documented as the second leading cause of death (behind malaria), likely because of high HIV prevalence, a lack of HIV testing so that those infected cannot seek care promptly, and lack . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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