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HSPH, Burmese students team up to improve health at refugee camp

HSPH, Burmese students team up to improve health at refugee camp

May 20, 2014

The Umpiem Mai refugee camp in western Thailand was erected three decades ago to provide temporary housing for Burmese refugees fleeing the repressive rule of their country’s military government. Today, more than 13,000 people still live in this well-organized community of straw and bamboo buildings packed tightly together on a steep and verdant hillside....