Migration

In December 2019, IOM Tajikistan together with AFEW International and AFEW Kyrgyzstan launched the project “Improving migrants’ access to HIV services in Tajikistan”. Rukhshona Kurbonova, Sub-Regional Coordinator on Migration Health for Central Asian countries – about the outcome of the project, the challenges that it faced during its 1-year implementation, and the important role of community representatives in the process.

On December 17th, the Regional Expert Group on Migration and Health will hold a roundtable “Migration and HIV in EECA region” that will take place on the eve of International Migrants Day.

Dear partners, colleagues and friends, IOM jointly with the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Republic

The roles and perspectives of key stakeholders on access to health services for labour migrants in Russia have not been studied extensively. Chamid Sulchan, a student of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and intern of AFEW International, during his internship made a research “Roles and perspectives of key stakeholders on access to health services for labour migrants from Central Asia to Russia”.

There are currently about a million citizens of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan working in the Russian Federation. Key groups of the population are also migrating to different countries seeking a better life. Because of this, the AFEW partnership conducted a study called “Assessment of Labor Migration Among Drug Users in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan”, which ultimately led to the development and implementation of the “Labor Migration: Awareness and Access” project in 2018. This partnership was created in the framework of the “Bridging the Gaps” project and was financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.

The head of “Nakukor” NGO, Bakhodur Khaitov, a partner of the project “Improving migrants’ access to HIV services in Tajikistan” told AFEW International what safe migration is, what challenges migrants face most often when they come to a foreign country and how Nakukor helps them to address such challenges.

Daniel Kashnitsky, a junior researcher at the Higher School of Economics on direction on labour migration and HIV positive migrants living in Russia, told AFEW International about migrants’ medical insurance, collaboration with Russian authorities and some hopes for the better future.