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This report presents the results of the half-day workshop and propose concrete, policy-relevant recommendations on how to facilitate Syrian refugees’ and especially refugee women’s access to healthcare services in Turkey.The workshop was designed to leverage partic-ipants’ expertise to discuss the gender-specific problems and barriers facing Syrian refugee women in reaching healthcare services, continuing service gaps, and ongoing initiatives to facilitate refugees’ access to healthcare. The workshop aimed to develop constructive recommendations that are based on evaluations from the field about the prob-lems refugees face in accessing healthcare services and how to improve refugee and healthcare policy and overall accessibility. The workshop was an opportunity for participants to exchange and share ideas as well as offering participants the chance to network. The workshop discussions were held in Turkish, Arabic, and English with simultaneous interpretation. The simultaneous interpretation was an avenue for participants to communicate with each other and engage with the knowledge of other experts in the field, especially as this exchange is not always possible due to language barriers. The roundtable workshop included 19 participants representing a broad variety of key stakeholder positions including Syrian and Turkish NGO members, community center representatives, independent public health experts and medical professionals working in Istanbul, and academics conducting research in the field.
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