Minimal Occurrence of Suspected Tuberculosis among Immigrants of War from Ukraine Shelters and Orphanage in Comparison to HIV Positive Cambodian Children from Orphanage

Abstract

Armed conflicts are connected with huge migration and refugees of war transfer at borders often without appropriate checks for vaccination, or immunization calendars. Within the last 10 years due to war, sporadic cases of measles and polio have been exported from Syria to Israel or fromAfghanistan to Pakistan and vice versa (l2). The aim of this study was to compare occurrence of Tuberculosis in 2 shelters, 1 with refugees of war and 1 with orphans, 1 from Ukraine and the second in Cambodia and a shelter of homeless people in Jarna Slovakia (3 countries of different incidence of TB).