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Andrea Shaw, MD, heads Upstate's Refugee Health team. She specializes pediatrics and internal medicine.
Andrea Shaw, MD, heads Upstate's Refugee Health team. She specializes pediatrics and internal medicine.

Afghan refugees face medical, other challenges as they settle into new home in America

The United States accepted more than 65,000 people from Afghanistan after the U.S. and allied troops left the country in 2021, and less than a month later, Upstate’s Refugee Health team was caring for the first families of Afghan refugees to arrive in the Syracuse area. That work continues, as described by Andrea Shaw, MD, the doctor who leads the Refugee Health team. Shaw, a doctor who specializes in internal medicine and pediatrics, describes what these new refugees are dealing with. 

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