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cord-321816-ipbwpw26	Fawad, Muhammad	Simple ideas to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic on refugees with chronic diseases	2020-05-06		.txt	text/plain	770	46	44	Simple ideas to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic on refugees with chronic diseases Muhammad Fawad 1 , Fatima Rawashdeh 1 , Parveen K. In Jordan, Syrian refugees with non-communicable diseases typically access clinical care and medications at no cost through clinics supported by humanitarian organizations. Since January, the International Rescue Committee in Jordan has been conducting a study on the impact of supplementing clinical care with out-of-clinic support through a Syrian community health volunteer network, on adherence to medications and prevention of severe outcomes among Syrians and uninsured Jordanians with poorly controlled diabetes and/or hypertension (Clinical-Trials.gov, NCT04229667). As clinical care is resumed, it is important to think about how to use community health volunteers to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in this population. Second, community health volunteers could provide refugees with a trusted connection to surveillance systems, risk communication, and the epidemic response, which is a major aim of community engagement [5] .	./cache/cord-321816-ipbwpw26.txt	./txt/cord-321816-ipbwpw26.txt