Resource: Title VI and Language Access
Lutheran Children and Family Services
Explains Title VI section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and how it requires agencies that receive public funding to guarantee Limited English Proficient clients are able to fully access their services.
Category Archives: Refugee Health Updates
Best Practices for Qualified Interpreters
Resource: Best Practices for Qualified Interpreters
Lutheran Children and Family Services
Outlines best practices for interpreters to follow when assisting staff of federally funded agencies while communicating with limited English proficient clients.
Democratic Republic of the Congo Country Condition Report
Resource: Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Country Condition Report
Jewish Gulf Coast Family and Community Services
Provides a historical timeline, information about torture, and current conditions in the DRC.
Resource: Cultural Aspects of TB
Resource: Cultural Aspects of TB Screening and Management
Ethnomed
Clinician resources, cultural profiles, and patient education materials on TB to help inform clinical practice.
Resource: TB Country Guides
Resource: Country Specific Guides on TB
Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center at University of Florida.
Guides for Cambodia, Haiti, Myanmar, Somalia, and other countries.
Resource: TB Technical Instructions 2007
Resource: TB Technical Instructions, Revised in 2007
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The guidelines followed by panel physicians for TB testing and treatment of refugees and immigrants before arrival in the U.S.
In the Lit: IGRA TB testing for refugees
In the Literature: Implementation of an Interferon-Gamma Release Assay to screen for tuberculosis in refugees and immigrants.
Simpson T, Tomaro J, Jobb C. (2012). J Immigr Minor Health. (Epub ahead of print)
Resource: 2012 National TB Stats
Resource: Trends in Tuberculosis- United States, 2012.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Contains 2012 national TB surveillance data.
Event: North American Refugee Health Conference
Event: North American Refugee Health Conference
University of Toronto
Health professionals and experts from many disciplines will meet to discuss the best health practices, challenges for optimal care, research and advocacy for the refugee patient population.
June 6-8, 2013 in Toronto, Canada.
International Protection for LGBT Refugees
Resource: International Protection for a Newly Surfacing Refugee Community
Migration Information Source
Articles discusses that asylum and refugee status on the basis of sexual orientation is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States and many other countries. International protection, however, is not constant from country to country for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender refugees.