before the first COVID-19 case was reported in 2020.42Limited access to proper healthcare in Rakhine state, have also contributed to poor health conditions. A 2018 assessment of the Rohingya refugees by Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and BRAC found that 51.5% had hypertension and 14.2% had diabetes while 36,930 persons were suffering from injuries sustained fleeing Myanmar.43 Right to health is a fundamental right and access to health care, especially mental health and sexual and reproductive health, is vital for Rohingya refugee survivors’ well-being and resilience. Decades of dehumanizing treatment in Myanmar, enduring unspeakable horrors like torture, sexual assault, and losing family during the Myanmar military’s alleged genocidal campaigns, topped by the daily stress and anxiety of refugee life only serve add to overwhelming need for mental health services. Although there have been few studies published on mental health of the Rohingya refugee populations, the UNHCR reported a concerning number of cases “explosive anger, psychotic-like symptoms, somatic or medically unexplained symptoms, impaired function and suicidal ideation,” along with anxiety, depression, and appetite loss within the population.44 Rohingya women’s organizations also shared that incidents of intimate partner violence, domestic violence and sexual violence have gone up in the camps.45 According to them, women and girls make up approximately 67% of the refugee population but gender inequalities and marginalization limit their future. Access to reproductive health is particularly important for refugee women survivors. The Bangladesh home ministry stated that 90% of female refugees have been victims of rape.46 70,000 are estimated to be pregnant or new mothers as a result of sexual violence committed against them in Myanmar.47 The future for the children in the refugee camps remains uncertain, especially when it comes to their right to education. From 2017 through early 2020, the government of Bangladesh prohibited formal education for Rohingya refugees, depriving nearly 400,000 school-aged children in the camps of education. Rohingya children were barred from enrolling in schools in host communities or taking national examinations.48 Furthermore, UN humanitarian agencies and NGOs were 42 Kate White, “Rohingya in Bangladesh: an unfolding public health emergency,“ The Lancet 390, no. 10106 (October 2017): https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)326776/fulltext. 43 “Rapid Needs Assessment in Cox’s Bazar Phase 1: March 2018,” Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and BRAC, March 2018, https://cdn2.sph.harvard.edu/wpcontent/uploads/sites/114/2018/04/RNA-BRAC.pdf. 44 “Culture, context and mental health of Rohingya Refugees,” United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2018, https://www.unhcr.org/5bbc6f014.pdf. 45 Taken from field notes of co-author’s conversation with RWWS and women’s rights activists during January 2020 visit to Kutupalong camps. 46 Susan Hutchinson, “Gendered insecurity in the Rohingya crisis,” Australian Journal of International Affairs 72, no. 1 (January 2018): 1-9. 47 Hutchinson, ”Gendered insecurity,” 1-9. 48 “Are We Not Human? Denial of Education for Rohingya Refugee Children in Bangladesh,” Human Rights Watch, December 3, 2019, https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/12/03/are-we-not-human/denialeducation-rohingya-refugee-children-bangladesh. 13