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Bridging Gaps in Migrant Healthcare: CUAMM’s Experience from 13,103 Visits in Southern Italy

Annals of Global Health
Volume 91 (2025): Issue 1
By: Cesare De Virgilio Suglia,  Renato Laforgia,  Marcella Schiavone,  Anna Belfiore,  Nicole Laforgia,  Annalisa Saracino,  Giovanni Putoto and  Francesco Di Gennaro  
Open Access
|Mar 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.4666 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 6, 2025
Accepted on: Mar 2, 2025
Published on: Mar 28, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Migrant health,
healthcare access,
social determinant,
vulnerability,
mobile clinics,
labor exploitation,
social inclusion,
Doctors with Africa CUAMM,
health disparities,
primary health care,
infectious disease,
health policy

© 2025 Cesare De Virgilio Suglia, Renato Laforgia, Marcella Schiavone, Anna Belfiore, Nicole Laforgia, Annalisa Saracino, Giovanni Putoto, Francesco Di Gennaro, published by Ubiquity Press
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