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Health Promotion and Assistance for Migrants D E P A R T M E N T O F M I G R A T I O N M A N A G E M E N T Migration Health Division Annual Review 2016 Acknowledgement This report was produced by the Migration Health Division (MHD) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The Division would like to thank the Publications Unit for their editing assistance, as well as the Online Communications Unit for Web dissemination. We would also like to acknowledge the important support of our governmental and non-governmental donors and other partners, without which the migration health activities highlighted in this report would not have been possible. For further information, please contact [email protected] and [email protected]. MHD 2 Migration Management © IOM 2016 MHD Annual Review 2016 3 List of Tables and Figures ........................................ 4 2016 in Numbers .................................................... 6 Foreword ................................................................ 8 List of Acronyms ................................................... 10 Part I: Emerging Themes in Migration and Health ............................................................ 12 Migrant Health and the Sustainable Development Goals ............................................................................... 13 Promoting Migration Health in the era of the global compacts for migration and refugees ............................ 16 Part II: The Migration Health Division’s Highlights of Activities, 2016 ................................ 20 1. Migration health assessments and travel health assistance .................................................................... 21 2. Health promotion and assistance for migrants ........... 30 3. Migration health assistance for crisis-affected populations ................................................................. 66 Annexes ................................................................ 84 Annex 1: Migration health research: 2016 at a glance ... 85 Annex 2: Health assessments and related service delivery in numbers, 2016 ............................... 92 Annex 3: Financial r eview 2016 .................................... 109 contents Annex 4: List of active MHD projects, 2016 .................. 115 4 Migration Management List of Tables Table 1. IOM health assessments by country of health assessment, country of destination and migrant category, 2016 ..............................102 Table 2. Tuberculosis detection among all migrants, IOM selected operations, 2016 ...................................................................................104 Table 3. Tuberculosis detection among immigrants, IOM selected operations, 2016 ...................................................................................106 Table 4. Tuberculosis detection among refugees, IOM selected operations, 2016 ...................................................................................107 Table 5. Drug susceptibility testing results among cases with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (MTB) growth on culture, IOM, 2016 .....108 Table 6. Tuberculosis detection by country of exam, United Kingdom Tuberculosis Detection Programme, 2016 .............................108 Table 7. Migration Health Division expenditure by funding source, 2015–2016 ............................................................................................109 A. Migration health assessments and travel health assistance .........109 B. Health promotion and assistance for migrants.............................110 C. migration health assistance for crisis-affected populations .........111 List of Figures Figure 1. Total expenditure by region, 2016 (in millions USD) ..............................6 Figure 2. Tracing migrant health in the SDGs ......................................................14 Figure 3. IOM health assessment programme global presence in 2016 .............22 Figure 4. IOM health assessment programme’s key figures in 2016 ...................22 Figure 5. IOM global PACS connections, as of December 2016 ...........................25 Figure 6. Publication “Labour Exploitation, Trafficking and Migrant Health” ......32 Figure 7. Number of test and referrals ................................................................35 Figure 8. Total beneficiaries and migrants reached per country through PHAMESA in 2016 ...................................................................36 Figure 9. Total number of active change agents in PHAMESA in 2016 ................37 Figure 10. Total number of health workers in key stakeholder organizations trained on migration and health in 2016 .......................37 Figure 11. Total number of community- and facility-based health workforce members trained on migration and health in 2016 ............37 Figure 12. Total number of health workers in key stakeholder organizations capacitated on migration and health in 2016 ................42 Figure 13. Study “Migration, Mobility and Malaria” .............................................46 Figure 14. Publication “Baseline Survey Report for the project ‘Promoting comprehensive sexual and reproductive health rights for internal migrants and internally displaced populations living in urban slums of Sylhet city of Bangladesh ’” .............................................................................48 Figure 15. Infographic on costs of exclusion from healthcare ..............................54 Figure 16. Enhancing tuberculosis prevention, diagnosis and treatment among Syrian refugees and migrants in tables and figures tables and Jordan: figures and achievements, 2016 ..............................................62 Figure 17. Enhancing tuberculosis prevention, diagnosis and treatment among Syrian refugees and migrants in Lebanon: figures and achievements, 2016 ...........................................64 MHD Annual Review 2016 5 Figure 18. Geographic distribution of 147 notified TB cases among Syrian refugees identified across Lebanon who received treatment, 2016 ..................................................................................64 Figure 19. Health support within IOM’s Migration Crisis Operational Framework ..66 Figure 20. Geographic coverage of IOM’s cholera response activities in Yemen (2016) ....................................................................71 Figure 21a. Health assessments of immigrants by region of exam, IOM, 2012–2016 ...................................................................................92 Figure 21b. Health assessments of refugees by region of exam, IOM, 2012–2016 ...................................................................................92 Figure 22a. Health assessments of immigrants by country of destination, IOM, 2012–2016 ...............................................................93 Figure 22b. Health assessments of refugees by country of destination, IOM, 2012–2016 ...............................................................93 Figure 23a. Distribution of immigrant health assessments by country of destination, IOM, 2016 .......................................................94 Figure 23b. Distribution of refugee health assessments by country of destination, IOM, 2016 ....................................................................94 Figure 24a. Distribution of immigrant health assessments by region, 2016 ...........95 Figure 24b. Distribution of refugee health assessments by region, IOM, 2016 ......95 Figure 25a. Distribution of immigrant health assessments by sex and age, Asia, IOM, 2016 ......................................................................96 Figure 25b. Distribution of refugee health assessments by sex and age, Asia, IOM, 2016.............................................................................96 Figure 26a. Distribution of immigrant health assessments by sex and age, Africa, IOM, 2016 ...................................................................97 Figure 26b. Distribution of refugee health assessments by sex and age, Africa, IOM, 2016 ..........................................................................97 Figure 27a. Distribution of immigrant health assessments by sex and age, Europe, IOM, 2016 .................................................................98 Figure 27b. Distribution of refugee health assessments by sex and age, Europe, IOM, 2016 ........................................................................98 Figure 28a. Distribution of immigrant health assessments by sex and age, Middle East, IOM, 2016 .........................................................99 Figure 28b. Distribution of refugee health assessments by sex and age, Middle East, IOM, 2016 ................................................................99 Figure 29a. DNA sample collection services by country of destination, IOM, 2016 .......................................................................100 Figure 29b. DNA sample collection services by country of sample collection, IOM, 2016 .........................................................................100 Figure 30. Pre-travel medical conditions of all escorted migrants, IOM, 2016 ...101 Figure 31. Number of migrants travelling with medical escorts by country of destination, IOM, 2016 .....................................................101 Figure 32. Tuberculosis detection among all migrants, IOM, 2016 .....................105 Figure 33. Tuberculosis detection among immigrants, IOM, 2016 ......................106 Figure 34. Tuberculosis detection among refugees, IOM, 2016 ..........................107 Figure 35. Migration Health
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