Barriers and facilitators of access to sexual and reproductive health services among migrant, internally displaced, asylum seeking and refugee women : a scoping review

Abstract

Migrant, internally displaced, asylum seeking, and refugee women experience ongoing risks of having their reproductive healthcare rights violated. This ever-increasing population also has limited access to sexual and reproductive health services. We conducted a scoping review to identify the barriers, and facilitating factors, when accessing sexual and reproductive health services for this specific population. We searched the grey literature and queried eight bibliographic databases to extract articles published between January 2000 and October 2021. The extracted data were organized in a framework adapted from Peters et al. and then categorized as facilitators or barriers. We followed the Arksey and O’Malley framework and wrote the report according to the PRISMA-Scr recommendations.