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Rescue, Rehabilitation, Return, and Reintegration of Ghanaian Children Victims of Trafficking for Labour Exploitation in Fishing Communities in the Volta Region

The project aims to register, rescue, rehabilitate, reintegrate and monitor an additional 20 trafficked children along the Volta Lake in the Volta Region of Ghana. This is due to the fact that even though some rescues have been done in the past by entities, reports reaching IOM from partners including the Ghana Police (GP) and Department of Social Welfare (DSW) states that there are still a lot of these child victims along the Lake.

Sponsorship of 200 Trafficked Children in Ghana (STCG 2007)

This project will enable IOM and its implementing partners to provide additional support to 200 trafficked children in Ghana who have been rescued through the Yeji Project. Such support includes feeding, clothing, medical assistance, psychosocial counselling, and school supplies.

Recovering from the ebola crisis: IOM's strategic framework for action 2015-2017

The 2014/2015 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which also affected neighbouring countries, Nigeria, Senegal, and Mali, has been unprecedented in its scale and impact, in terms of human loss, economic drain, and delayed development for countries within the region.

Global Health Security Partner Engagement - Expanding Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health Globally

Through this project, IOM will support the realization of CDC's main strategies and intended outcome to prevent, detect and respond to disease outbreaks and other health threats. In line with IOM's HBMM framework across five African countries: Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

Challenges in the Reintegration of Return Migrants with Chronic Medical Conditions

This report provides insight into the lived reality of voluntary returnees with chronic medical conditions who returned to Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ghana, UNSC resolution 1244-administered Kosovo, Mongolia and Morocco. The report was developed in the framework of the IOM project Measures to Enhance the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) of Migrants with a Chronic Medical Condition Residing in the EU. The project was funded by the European Return Fund Community Actions 2011 and co-funded by the Government of the Netherlands.

National Profile of Migration of Health Professionals – Ghana

Worldwide mobility of health professionals (MoHProf) is a growing phenomenon, impacting the health systems of receiving, transit, and sending countries. EU Member States are increasingly affected by these developments - which might occur simultaneously within the same country. Therefore, the need to develop European policies to adequately address these issues is urgent. At the same time, reliable and differentiated knowledge and findings as a basis for such policy are lacking.

Migration Health: Summer 2011, Africa and the Middle East

Migration Health is a regional newsletter highlighting how IOM and partners are making a difference to the lives of migrants and mobile populations across Africa and the Middle East. Packed with news features, interviews, photo galleries and IOM’s latest research, the newsletter underpins the Migration Health Division's core mandate to promote and deliver evidence-informed health policies and programmes which are beneficial, accessible, and equitable for migrants, mobile populations, and the communities in which they live, or transit.

MIDA Ghana Health Project

The Migration for development in Africa (MIDA) initiative links the skills and expertise in the diaspora to the development of home countries. The MIDA Ghana Health project aims to build a bridge between available resources of the Ghanaian diaspora and needs, opportunities and policies in the health sector in Ghana. The main purpose of the project is to facilitate the temporary return to Ghana of Ghanaian health professionals from the diaspora residing in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany and other EU countries for the benefit of local health institutions.

HIV and population mobility: Behavioural study of female sex workers along Ghana’s Tema‐Paga transport corridor

The aim of the study was to generate data on HIV and mobility to inform strategic decisions on HIV programming for Female Sex Workers (FSWs). Specific objectives of the study were to: (a) understand characteristics of the FSWs operating along the Tema‐Paga transport corridor; (b) understand mobility characteristics; (c) understand HIV vulnerability similarities and differences between roamers and seaters; and (d) identify HIV vulnerability (risk) factors.