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Data and cooperation required for Venezuela’s refugee crisis during COVID-19
The deteriorating political and economic situation in Venezuela has ramifications far beyond the Latin American country’s borders as almost five million Venezuelans fled and migrated into countries in the region due to the crisis at home. The scarcity of health services, the lack of information shar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7578583/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33092609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00635-7 |
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author | Standley, Claire J. Chu, Eric Kathawala, Emrose Ventura, Deisy Sorrell, Erin M. |
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description | The deteriorating political and economic situation in Venezuela has ramifications far beyond the Latin American country’s borders as almost five million Venezuelans fled and migrated into countries in the region due to the crisis at home. The scarcity of health services, the lack of information sharing, and the absence of reliable data in Venezuela create challenges for confronting developing health emergencies and disease outbreaks. The need for accurate data is especially dire given the current COVID-19 pandemic and evolving movement of refugees. While countries and international organizations came together to form a coordinated response to Venezuela’s political and humanitarian crisis, this geopolitical progress is threatened by the rapid spread of COVID-19, and the instinct for countries to focus inwards on domestic response priorities, rather than engage in regional cooperation. It is critical that the international community set aside geopolitical differences and cooperate to seek an accurate picture of the conditions on the ground to improve the welfare of Venezuelan migrants and to provide a more robust response to the current pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-75785832020-10-22 Data and cooperation required for Venezuela’s refugee crisis during COVID-19 Standley, Claire J. Chu, Eric Kathawala, Emrose Ventura, Deisy Sorrell, Erin M. Global Health Commentary The deteriorating political and economic situation in Venezuela has ramifications far beyond the Latin American country’s borders as almost five million Venezuelans fled and migrated into countries in the region due to the crisis at home. The scarcity of health services, the lack of information sharing, and the absence of reliable data in Venezuela create challenges for confronting developing health emergencies and disease outbreaks. The need for accurate data is especially dire given the current COVID-19 pandemic and evolving movement of refugees. While countries and international organizations came together to form a coordinated response to Venezuela’s political and humanitarian crisis, this geopolitical progress is threatened by the rapid spread of COVID-19, and the instinct for countries to focus inwards on domestic response priorities, rather than engage in regional cooperation. It is critical that the international community set aside geopolitical differences and cooperate to seek an accurate picture of the conditions on the ground to improve the welfare of Venezuelan migrants and to provide a more robust response to the current pandemic. BioMed Central 2020-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7578583/ /pubmed/33092609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00635-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Standley, Claire J. Chu, Eric Kathawala, Emrose Ventura, Deisy Sorrell, Erin M. Data and cooperation required for Venezuela’s refugee crisis during COVID-19 |
title | Data and cooperation required for Venezuela’s refugee crisis during COVID-19 |
title_full | Data and cooperation required for Venezuela’s refugee crisis during COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Data and cooperation required for Venezuela’s refugee crisis during COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Data and cooperation required for Venezuela’s refugee crisis during COVID-19 |
title_short | Data and cooperation required for Venezuela’s refugee crisis during COVID-19 |
title_sort | data and cooperation required for venezuela’s refugee crisis during covid-19 |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7578583/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33092609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00635-7 |
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