This research project aims to assess HIV vulnerabilities and service needs among migrants in selected humanitarian emergencies, focusing specifically on the situation of undocumented and irregular migrants.
This project will implement activities that will strengthen migrant host communities' capacity for practical responses to cope during and increasing of influenza like illnesses. The purposes of the proposed programme are 1) to strengthen capacity for surveillance in migrant populations, 2) provide public information and support behaviour change communication, 3) ensuring the continuity of essential social, economic, and governance services.
The critical relationship between population mobility and emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases is particularly evident in the case of avian and human influenza. Both migrants and host communities need to be made aware of the risks they face and the safety measures they can employ to protect themselves and their communities as well as how to access health and social services when needed.
The overall objective is to contribute towards improved trans-border harmonization of programmes and improved access to targeted comprehensive HIV services for most-at-risk mobile populations in the Horn of Africa and Middle-East.
To address the challenges identified and advance the recommendations collaboratively developed during the June 2010 conference, "Egypt and Transit Migration", IOM is proposing this comprehensive project to promote better health and well being amongst migrants transiting through Egypt and Yemen.
The overall objective of this project is to consolidate the Government of Egypt's response to human trafficking, through partnership with the Ministry of Health (MoH) to enhance protection of trafficking victims.
This project aims to contribute to the protection of vulnerable migrants in Sinai. Through the project, IOM will seek to strengthen capacities amongst health care providers, provide direct assistance to migrants, and provide complementary support/assistance to project counterparts and beneficiaries through its ongoing assisted voluntary return, counter-trafficking and border management programs. In due course, good practices and lessons learned under the proposed project and parallel interventions can be used to inform a multi-sector programme to protect and assist migrants in transit.
This publication is a shortened version of the summary report “Mobility of Health Professionals: Health systems, work conditions, patterns of health workers’ mobility and implication for policy makers”, which was published in March 2012, in Bonn, Germany, by a consortium led by Dr. Caren Weilandt at the Wissenschaftliches Institut der Ärzte Deutschlands (WIAD, Scientific Institute of the Medical Association of German Doctors).
