The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the process of relieving the drug problem in Georgia in line with the Anti-Drug Strategy of the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia. Through the planned trainings and workshops social workers and medical personnel engaged in the field of drug addiction will receive up-to-date information on modern Western trends.
This project is aimed at generating evidence on health status, healthcare access and health seeking behaviours of vulnerable migrant populations in Georgia with the overall goal of monitoring and protecting health of migrant populations in the country.
The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the process of relieving the drug problem in Georgia in line with the Anti-Drug Strategy of the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia. Through the planned trainings and workshops social workers and medical personnel engaged in the field of drug addiction will receive up-to-date information on modern Western trends.
The main objectives of the project are to continue engagement with key players in the field of addiction treatment/prevention and rehabilitation and to begin contact with probationers and former prisoners who have had drug problems.
The project will reinforce the National Anti-Drug System of Georgia by building the capacity of law enforcement structures and multi-functional expert teams at national and local levels to address the problems of substance abuse and drug trafficking in an effective manner and offer comprehensive rehabilitation services to mobile populations suffering from substance abuse through coordinated referral mechanism.
IOM will implement activities aimed at decreasing the vulnerability of mobile populations in BiH to HIV/AIDS. The project will involve the active participation of local and international actors in the field of HIV/AIDS assessment, prevention and response. These include institutions, which are essential to developing policy, civil society, which reaches out to the general public and assists people living with HIV/AIDS, and mass media, which communicate information on HIV/AIDS to the general public.
IOM Vienna will provide professional support in the review and revision process of all relevant documents produced by the project. IOM Vienna will also provide access to publications relevant to the subject matter as far as available.
The project will provide capacity building and technical support to the Ministrty of Health regarding its data management and information and utilisation of this information. The data subject will be resources available, i.e. the health workers. In addition, IOM plans to launch an information campaign aiming at prevention of the health risks of migration and improvement of the general health of migrants as well diminishing the risks related to illegal migration.
IOM will implement activities aimed at decreasing the vulnerability of mobile populations in BiH to HIV/AIDS. The project will involve the active participation of local and international actors in the field of HIV/AIDS assessment, prevention and response. These include institutions, which are essential to developing policy, civil society, which reaches out to the general public and assists people living with HIV/AIDS, and mass media, which communicate information on HIV/AIDS to the general public.
This document is based on the Situation Analysis Report (SAR) undertaken within the framework of the project “Increasing Public Health Safety alongside the New Eastern European Border Line” (PHBLM) and co-authored by Mariya Samuilova, Jennifer Hollings and Roumyana Petrova-Benedict from the Migration Health Unit, IOM Brussels.
