Document Type : Viewpoint
Author
1 Centre On Drug Policy Evaluation, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
2 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
3 HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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Introduction
By the end of 2024, 123.2 million people, roughly one in every 67 worldwide, were forcibly displaced, and 40% of them were children.1 Although mainstream media often focus on a “refugee crisis” impacting Western high-income countries, low- and middle-income countries are the ones that host 73% of the world’s refugees, 67% of whom remain in their homelands’ neighbouring countries. ...(Read more...)