Items tagged with Mobile populations
Prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in migrants in Europe in the era of universal health coverage (post)
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Parliamentarians and civil society align on key issues around TB in Migration (post)
On 28 September 2022, the Global TB Caucus held its third Platform of Experts meeting on the theme of TB in Migration. Growing migration is an overall global trend, but the numbers have spiked in Europe due to the war in Ukraine. Across the board, consistent points of concern for migrants are access to healthcare, follow-through on treatment, and the double stigma they face: as migrants, and as people who may be more vulnerable to TB.
Standards of care: HIV, VH, and TB - good practices and ensuring prevention & care for people on the move (post)
The EU Health Policy Platform Thematic Network on HIV, TB and viral hepatitis will host a webinar on 16 February 2023 providing an overview of key standards of care for people living with or most affected by HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis (VH), TB (especially drug-resistant) and gaps. It will also look at ways to ensure continued prevention and care for displaced and mobile people and other migrant populations.
Standards of care: HIV, VH, and TB - good practices and ensuring prevention & care for people on the move: Webinar materials now available online (post)
The EU Health Policy Platform Thematic Network on HIV, TB and viral hepatitis (VH) hosted a webinar on 16 February 2023 providing an overview of key standards of care for people living with or most affected by HIV/AIDS, VH, TB (especially drug-resistant) and gaps. It also looked at ways to ensure continued prevention and care for displaced and mobile people and other migrant populations.
Hope away from home: Providing support for refugees with TB, wherever they live (post)
Worldwide, more people are on the move than ever before, with an estimated 103 million forcibly displaced people globally including an estimated 32.5 million refugees. Refugees and other populations in humanitarian settings face considerable threats to their health, wellbeing and survival, including crowded living conditions, poverty, undernutrition, precarious legal status, discrimination and poor access to health and social protection services, all conditions in which tuberculosis (TB) thrives. In most settings, refugees are more likely to be exposed to TB, develop TB disease once exposed and have poor health, social and economic outcomes as a result of it.
Reaching migrants is key to success in the global fight against TB: IOM (post with simple image)
Philippines - One third of the estimated nine million people who get sick with tuberculosis each year miss out on care from established health systems, and with multidrug-resistant strains on the rise, the disease threatens to make deadly inroads into hard-to-reach populations.
Fighting tuberculosis: Western myths and Belarusian reality (post with simple image)
Research indicates that post-Soviet migrants account for a mere 1.7% of TB incidence across the EU border. Portraying migrants from post-Soviet states as diseased may contribute to their already negative perception in Western Europe and will further strengthen prejudice against this group.
USAID supports cross-border TB prevention and control among migrants in Central Asia (post with simple image)
05 October 2015 - On September 29 and 30, the Tajik Ministry of Health and Social Protection convened a regional workshop on strengthening cross-border tuberculosis (TB) control, prevention and care among migrant workers from Central Asia and their families. The workshop funded by the USAID TB Control Program, gathered representatives from health and migration departments of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation to discuss improving access to TB care for migrants in the region.
Key populations brief: Mobile populations (post with simple image)
The Stop TB Partnership released the first of a series of publications on the different TB key populations, Key populations brief: Mobile populations.
Eurasia Region puts migrants and TB at the centre of ending TB efforts (post with simple image)
8 December 2016 – Astana, Kazakhstan – The Resolution that summarizes recommendations for the migrant-specific patient-oriented approach to address TB in the Central Asian Region was adopted today at the conclusion of a two-day meeting. It brought together government officials, representatives of National TB programs, international NGOs and civil society, migration authorities and partners from the Central Asian countries of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and Armenia.
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