Findings from a needs assessment survey of labour migrants among people who use drugs in the pilot regions of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
30 November 2017
Financial support for this survey was provided through the budget of the project ‘Bridging the Gaps: Health and rights for key populations 2.0’, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. Additional financing agreements with AFEW International as of 1 July 2017 and with the UNAIDS country office in Tajikistan as of 31 July 2017 helped finance the survey.
Our analysis points to a set of problems related to information, as well as social, legal and education issues. People who use drugs face these same problems whilst planning, remaining in and returning from periods of labour migration. A lack of finances and social vulnerability represented key problems faced by migrants when planning their labour migration. A lack of finances hampers access among people who use drugs to complete medical examinations through primary healthcare facilities, HIV testing and TB diagnosis in order to obtain the necessary certificates, including those from HIV centres, drug rehabilitation centres and TB control institutions.
The full version of the report is available here.
