The proposal aims to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Health through establishing a Migration Health Secretariat and technical working group tasked with steering a joint situational assessment. The situational assessment will assist in creating baseline data in order to identify and inform further appropriate solutions and intervention strategies to improve the health of migrants and their families.

The project aims to strengthen case detection and contribute to the evidence base on the prevalence of TB and compliance to DOTS treatment among returning irregular migrants in two border provinces of Cambodia.

The project aims to increase TB case detection and earlier treatment among cross-border migrant population in the Operational District of Poipet, Western Cambodian Border. The project uses a community outreach approach using village health workers to screening migrants and mobile population for TB symptoms. Sputum is collected and transported to the local Government Hospital to be tested using a rapid molecule diagnostic. Individuals detected with TB are referred and treated under the National TB program.

The goal of the project is to substantially increase TB case detection among returned irregular Cambodian migrants from Thailand and Malaysia through systematic TB screening, by strengthening existing Government TB services in Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia.