They also often have limited access to health care and live in overcrowded homes, which make it easier for the virus to spread.

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The organization more recently has called for the government to allow unhindered access to aid workers in make-shift camps that house hundreds of thousands of Tamils, including women and children.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

"They remain treated as temporary migrants and, without that piece of paper, some form of identification, they are not able to access many of these government schemes that exist now, that have large funds behind them and could actually make a huge difference in poor people's lives,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.24