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Virginia Newcomer Health Program.  Click here to learn about this program.
 

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The mission of the Virginia Newcomer Health Program is the surveillance, prevention and control of identified public health problems among newcomers entering the 
Commonwealth of Virginia.

UPDATE 10/1/09:  State Refugee Health Screening revised.  See new documents posted under the forms section.

Southeast Asian mother and daughter smiling, leaning out of the window of a bamboo structure.
Two African women in colorful clothing and headwraps, each holding an infant, standing in a cement building with a canvas roof.

A Karen mother and daughter look out the window of their room in communal accomodation for recent arrivals at a refugee camp in Thailand.

Midwives care for malnourished babies in the thereputic feeding center, located in a camp for refugees from Darfur, Sudan.

(Both pictures courtesy of the UNHCR web site.)


Last Updated: 09-30-2009

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