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The difficulties of collective life, housing problems, legal problems affect the health of migrant individuals negatively from social, cultural, psychological, and physical aspects. Women are more affected relatively compared to men due to the causes such as social status, social gender, and low socio-economic levels and are in a more disadvantageous position to benefit from health services. Refugee women have physical, psychological, and social obstacles due to problems in public life, environmental issues, language barriers, lack of health insurance, economic problems, and education and transportation problems. All of these problems cause refugee women to be included in the risk and disadvantage groups considering reproductive health problems and violence, sexual harassment, rape, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy and reproductive health problems related to childbirth. Women are trying to meet the needs of family members while fighting gender inequality. Refugee women face problems during access to health services due to language problems, low educational and socioeconomic level, cultural differences, inadequate use of contraceptives, inadequate health perception, difficulties in transport to health care institutions, lack of health insurance, lack of adequate health care facilities and qualified staff in migrated areas, legal restrictions and non-availability of translators. The needs of refugee women related to reproductive health services are also increasing gradually. Accordingly, it is essential to organize reproductive health development programs to deal with, to evaluate, and to bring permanent solutions to the reproductive health problems of the refugee women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]