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The impact of COVID-19 on the living and survival conditions of internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso

In recent years, as in other parts of the Sahel, the threat of terrorism has escalated in Burkina Faso. In 2019, this country hosted the fourth highest number of new conflict-related internal displaced persons (IDPs) in the world. These people have to cope simultaneously with the full spectrum of en...

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Autores principales: Ozer, Pierre, Dembele, Adama, Yameogo, Simplice S., Hut, Elodie, de Longueville, Florence
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8743390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036662
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2022.100393
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author Ozer, Pierre
Dembele, Adama
Yameogo, Simplice S.
Hut, Elodie
de Longueville, Florence
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description In recent years, as in other parts of the Sahel, the threat of terrorism has escalated in Burkina Faso. In 2019, this country hosted the fourth highest number of new conflict-related internal displaced persons (IDPs) in the world. These people have to cope simultaneously with the full spectrum of environmental, social and health-related stresses in the long, medium and short term, respectively. We seek to compare the living conditions of IDPs before and during the lockdown implemented by the authorities (between 27 March and 5 May 2020) to contain the spread of the virus. Interviews were conducted with 106 IDPs in Kongoussi (Central-Northern region). Although no respondent reported having been directly affected by the virus, 84.9% of the IDPs surveyed had no income-generating activities during the lockdown and the remaining 15.1% who continued to work reported that their activities had been greatly scaled-down. For a large majority of them, their living conditions, already described as difficult under ‘normal’ circumstances (insufficient food, insignificant financial assistance, or difficult access to health care), further deteriorated. In addition, IDPs were unable to leave the camps or regions where they were located to search for better living conditions or to return home. Lastly, 96.2% of respondents believed that the COVID-19 pandemic would have a negative impact on their future. These IDPs, like many in the sub-region and around the world, therefore require urgent assistance from the authorities and humanitarian NGOs, as the slightest new stress is likely to considerably worsen their already vulnerable state.
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spelling pubmed-87433902022-01-10 The impact of COVID-19 on the living and survival conditions of internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso Ozer, Pierre Dembele, Adama Yameogo, Simplice S. Hut, Elodie de Longueville, Florence World Dev Perspect Research Paper In recent years, as in other parts of the Sahel, the threat of terrorism has escalated in Burkina Faso. In 2019, this country hosted the fourth highest number of new conflict-related internal displaced persons (IDPs) in the world. These people have to cope simultaneously with the full spectrum of environmental, social and health-related stresses in the long, medium and short term, respectively. We seek to compare the living conditions of IDPs before and during the lockdown implemented by the authorities (between 27 March and 5 May 2020) to contain the spread of the virus. Interviews were conducted with 106 IDPs in Kongoussi (Central-Northern region). Although no respondent reported having been directly affected by the virus, 84.9% of the IDPs surveyed had no income-generating activities during the lockdown and the remaining 15.1% who continued to work reported that their activities had been greatly scaled-down. For a large majority of them, their living conditions, already described as difficult under ‘normal’ circumstances (insufficient food, insignificant financial assistance, or difficult access to health care), further deteriorated. In addition, IDPs were unable to leave the camps or regions where they were located to search for better living conditions or to return home. Lastly, 96.2% of respondents believed that the COVID-19 pandemic would have a negative impact on their future. These IDPs, like many in the sub-region and around the world, therefore require urgent assistance from the authorities and humanitarian NGOs, as the slightest new stress is likely to considerably worsen their already vulnerable state. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-03 2022-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8743390/ /pubmed/35036662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2022.100393 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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The impact of COVID-19 on the living and survival conditions of internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso
title The impact of COVID-19 on the living and survival conditions of internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso
title_full The impact of COVID-19 on the living and survival conditions of internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso
title_fullStr The impact of COVID-19 on the living and survival conditions of internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso
title_full_unstemmed The impact of COVID-19 on the living and survival conditions of internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso
title_short The impact of COVID-19 on the living and survival conditions of internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8743390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036662
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2022.100393
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