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Jóvenes: vulnerabilidad y VIH. Resultados de la encuesta CAP. Segunda Fase

Introducción: Ante el contexto de violencia y desplazamiento forzado en Colombia, los y las jóvenes son considerados como una población con mayor vulnerabilidad al VIH. El Fondo Mundial de Lucha contra el Sida, la Tuberculosis y la Malaria financió un Proyecto de prevención para disminuir su vulnerabilidad. En una primera fase, fueron abordados 16 municipios y 32 en una segunda etapa.
 

Integrated biological and behavioural surveillance survey among migrant female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

Kenya is currently experiencing both a generalized and a concentrated HIV  epidemic. It has a national HIV prevalence of 6.3% and 1.3 million people between the ages of 15 to 64 across the country are living with HIV. According  to the Kenya National AIDS Control Council (NACC), female sex workers (FSW) and their clients account for 14.1% of new infections. The Kenyan national  response has recently started targeting research and programming efforts towards key population groups, and specifically FSW. However, migrants have not been targeted as a distinct category.

Eye on Migration and Health, Issue 5, June 2011

A bulletin of news, information and analysis of migration and health in East and Southern Africa. 

Inside this Issue:

  • New clinic offers roadside health care for mobile population in Kenya
  • Providing medical escort services to medically unfit Zimbabwean migrants 
  • Southern Africa ports as spaces of HIV vulnerability
  • HIV Vulnerabiity among Mobile POpulations in the Ports of Mozambique 

An Analysis of Migration Health in Kenya

This report was commissioned by the Kenyan Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation and IOM.  It provides a concise overview of migration health in Kenya, reinforcing that migration is a social determinant of health. This report analyses specific health concerns in Kenya such as TB and migration, HIV and mobility, and reproductive health and migration. The report was launched at the National Consultation on Migration Health in May 2011 to simulate decisive action from the Government and partners to ensure migrants have equitable access to health services.

Regional assessment on HIV prevention needs of migrants and mobile populations in Southern Africa

A report of findings from an eight-country assessment of the HIV prevention needs of migrants and mobile populations in the SADC region.  The assessment focused primarily on labour migrants employed in the agriculture, mining, transport, construction, informal cross border trade, as well as irregular migrants at a secondary level.

Content:

HIV prevalence and characteristics of sex work among female sex workers in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Somalia

Objective: To measure prevalence of HIV and syphilis and describe characteristics of sex work among female sex workers (FSWs) in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Somalia.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey recruited 237 FSWs using respondent-driven sampling (RDS). A face-to-face, structured interview using handheld-assisted personal interviewing (HAPI) on personal digital assistants (PDAs) was completed and blood collected for serological testing.

Evaluación de las vulnerabilidades existentes en Centroamérica para Comisión de Delitos Relacionados con la Donación y Trasplante de Órganos con énfasis en la Trata de Personas

Este estudio se concentra en la donación de órganos, especialmente de riñón, por parte de personas vivas no relacionadas en el ámbito público. Otras aristas igualmente importantes de este tema, como por ejemplo el análisis del ámbito privado, merecen ser abordadas en futuras investigaciones que abonen a los hallazgos que aquí se presentan.