The AHPN aims to improve the health and wellbeing of UK's African population, by influencing health policies to ensure the health needs of minority communities are addressed in a meaningful way. AHPN also work to address the wider determinants of health, and factors that negatively affect the health of African people.
The AHPN has launched a new research report detailing the impact of immigration detention on the health and wellbeing of African people. Based on qualitative research with current and former African detainees, the report presents evidence of the deterioration in mental health caused by detention in Immigration Removal Centres, the poor quality of healthcare delivered in IRCs, as well as practices which violate the human rights and fundamental dignities of detained people.
To read more download the full research report, or the shorter summary version of the report. The report is part of AHPN's Destination Unknown campaign, to find out more about that campaign, download the campaign review report below.
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