This report provides an overview of activities led and implemented by the Migration Health Division of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 2023, in close collaboration with Member States, other United Nations agencies and partners. These interventions served to deliver and promote comprehensive, preventive and curative health programmes that are beneficial, accessible, rights-based and equitable for migrants, mobile populations and host communities.

Summary

Abstract:

Objectives

Evaluate and determine the gaps in the National Tuberculosis Program and Tuberculosis Surveillance System in Jordan.

Methods

A concurrent embedded mixed quantitative/qualitative methods study was conducted to assess the National Tuberculosis Program and Tuberculosis Surveillance System in Jordan. A semi-structured questionnaire was developed based on the Updated CDC Guideline for Evaluating Public Health Surveillance System to collect necessary information from service providers and other stakeholders.

Results

Background

The evidence on the use of Antigen-Rapid Diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs) for SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) in settings with displaced populations (refugees and migrants) is limited. In Lebanon, a project for introducing Ag-RDTs among refugees and migrants was implemented between August and November 2022.  We describe the uptake and performance of Ag-RDTs in these settings.

Material and Methods

Abstract

Background

Summary

Introduction. Displaced persons in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo were not spared from Covid-19. The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with vaccine acceptance among displaced persons.

Materials and methods. A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted among displaced persons in camps supported by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, and Tanganyika. The data were analyzed using SPSS 27.

With a goal of establishing enduring leadership and commitment for the health of refugees and migrants, WHO, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and Morocco co-organized the Third Global Consultation on the Health of Refugees and Migrants in Rabat, Morocco, on 13–15 June 2023, and led to the adoption of the Rabat Declaration.