Papers on issues affecting African immigrants and refugees in America

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AFRICAN INDEX MEDICUS: ACCESS TO AFRICAN HEALTH INFORMATION
http://indexmedicus.afro.who.int/  (Retrieved Feb 2007)

CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE FOR AFRICANS
http://culturedmed.sunyit.edu/bib/African/index.html  (Retrieved Oct 2006)

INCREASE IN AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES WITH TUBERCULOSIS, SEATTLE-KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON,1998-2001 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5139a4.htm (Retrieved Feb 7, 2007)

AFRICAN IMMIGRANT PROJECT
http://www.metrokc.gov/health/apu/publications/African-Immigrant-Project.pdf (Retrieved Feb 7, 2007)

NORTHEAST AFRICAN STUDIES: "The leading scholarly journal on Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Djibouti, is published three times a year." 1999-2001 Issues
http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/disabilities/documents/pub/dhs_id_017788.pdf (Retrieved Feb 7, 2007)

Sudanese "Lost Boys" in the United States: Adjustment after Six Months
http://www.brycs.org/documents/SUDANESE.PDF (Retrieved November 2005)

GROWING UP WHOLE: SOMALI CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN AMERICA http://www.psychiatrymmc.com/displayArticle.cfm?articleID=article23# (Retrieved February 2007)

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROGRAMS FOR SOMALI REFUGEE WOMEN; WORKING OUT IN A NEW COUNTRY
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/migration/docs/wah33-03-guerin.pdf (Retrieved Jan 2007)

Kent, J.B., (2005). Impact of foreign-born persons on HIV diagnosis rates among Blacks in King County, Washington. AIDS Education and Prevention, 17(6 Suppl B):60-7.

AFRICAN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE HIV/AIDS KNOWLEDGE, AWARENES, AND PREVENTION PRACTICE SURVEY, MINNESOTA, 2002-2003: A Report.
http://www.mawanet.org/AIDSSurvey_Report.pdf may take time to load (Retrieved March 13, 2007)

A GROWING CRISIS. Funders Response to HIV/AIDS in the African Community in Minnesota.
http://www.phillipsfnd.org/documents/FinalHIVAfricanReport.pdf (Retrieved March 13, 2007)

DENIED AT THE DOOR: LANGUAGE BARRIERS BLOCK IMMIGRANT PARENTS FROM SCHOOL INVOLVEMENT
http://www.advocatesforchildren.org/pubs/2005/langbarriers.pdf(Retrieved Sept 2007)

OVERLOOKED & UNDERSERVED; IMMIGRANT STUDENTS IN U.S. SECONDARY SCHOOLS
http://www.urbaninstitute.org/pdfs/overlooked.pdf(Retrieved January 2007)

FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS: A LITERATURE REVIEW
http://www.tgslc.org/pdf/first_generation.pdf (Retrieved Nov 25, 2006)

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOR QUALITY OF LIFE (Seventh BOLESWA symposium hosted by Swaziland Educational Research Association) Abstracts or Papers (Retrieved August 2005)

AFRICAN IMMIGRATION: MIGRATION RESOURCES
Various links, Center for Research in Black Culture (retrieved Oct 2006)

WOMEN AND GIRLS EDUCATION IN AFRICA
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/africa/africaneducation/women-and-education-in-africa.html  (Retrieved Nov 25, 2006)

GIRLS IN SCIENCE. A TRAINING MODULE ON MOTIVATING GIRLS TO EMBARK ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CAREERS.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001453/145367e.pdf (Retrieved February 2007)

WHAT SKILLS DO SOMALI REFUGEES BRING WITH THEM.
Guerin, B., Guerin, P., Diiriye, R. O. & Abdi, A. (2005). What skills do Somali refugees bring with them? New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, 30: 37-49.

FACILITATING EMPLOYMENT FOR SKILLED IMMIGRANTS IN CENTRAL SOUTH KING COUNTY
http://evans.washington.edu/research/psclinic/pdf/04-05/Vajra%27sDPfinal.pdf (Retrieved Nov 13, 2005)

AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS INCREASE US PRESENCE
http://teachmefinance.com/News/2003/December/2003-12-06-14-African.html

NORTHEAST AFRICAN STUDIES: "The leading scholarly journal on Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Djibouti, is published three times a year." 1999-2001 Issues http://msupress.msu.edu/journals/neas/index.php?Page=selectdownload (Retrieved Feb 7, 2007)