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The Migrant Health Project

The Migrant Health Project. Improvement of Health Conditions of Migrants in Five Priority Provinces of Thailand. Background. Dec 1999 – 78 th IOM Council Session in Geneva, RTG requested IOM to address the needs of displaced persons and migrant living along the border of Myanmar.

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The Migrant Health Project

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  1. The Migrant Health Project Improvement of Health Conditions of Migrants in Five Priority Provinces of Thailand

  2. Background • Dec 1999 – 78th IOM Council Session in Geneva, RTG requested IOM to address the needs of displaced persons and migrant living along the border of Myanmar • Sep - Dec 2000 – IOM/MOPH Joint Assessment involving 8 provinces; Recommended Programme of Action • 2001 to 2002 – Project development, proposal writing and fund raising • Sep 2002 – USAID funded the Migrant Health Project for Tak and Chiang Rai Province • May – Aug 2003 – Development of the detailed project implementation plan • Oct 2003 – MHP Field Office and Team established in Tak and Chiang Rai Province • Mar 2004 – EC funded the Migrant Health Project for 20,000 Shan Migrants

  3. Main Objective Strengthen the response capacity of the RTG’s Ministry of Public Health in the sustained provision of cost effective primary care, reproductive health and communicable disease control services to migrants and their Thai host communities in targeted provinces.

  4. Specific Purposes • increase awareness of migrants on health • assess basic sanitation conditions, define solutions, develop projects and raise fund • support delivery of preventative and curative health services on basic primary health care, communicable disease control and reproductive health services • create a replicable model on strengthening health interventions in Thai communities hosting large population of migrants • establish system that provides regularly reliable surveillance data on health status of migrants • assess cost recovery schemes and financing options for provision of basic health care services to migrants

  5. Governments MHP Design Replicable Model Migrant CHW Training Module Migrant HIS Financial Schemes / Options Environmental Health Projects Agencies Donors project development fund raising training cross fertilization project review planning Migrants and their Thai Host Communities baseline indicators assessments data gathering training module & IEC migrant health team community outreach health post medical equipments/supplies MOPH / Provincial / District Health Office & Facilities Tak Province USAID Shan Migrants EC Chiang Rai Province USAID Ranong Province Samutsakorn Province

  6. Progress to date: • Established and currently supporting MHP Team and Field Offices under the PHO since Nov 2003

  7. Progress to date: • Supported training and ongoing technical supervision of migrant CHWs and volunteers since Dec03 • Supporting design and development of training module for migrant CHWs by IRC & PHO

  8. Progress to date: • Supporting health promotion, community outreach activities and provision of “migrant-friendly” health services to migrants since Dec03

  9. Progress to date: • Designed and currently implementing the participatory baseline health needs assessment of migrants in the two provinces

  10. Progress to date: • Processing the procurement medical equipments and supplies with PHO, MOPH and IOM

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