2021 - Migration and Health

22.12.2021

REG is pleased to present the two studies: Situation analysis of the nexus of migration and HIV care for returned migrants in Armenia and Uzbekistan

The Regional Expert Group on Migration and Health conducted two studies in two EECA countries— Armenia and Uzbekistan aimed to gain an understanding about the legal and institutional barriers the returned migrants face: “Situation analysis of migration HIV-related health services for returned migrants in Armenia and Uzbekistan”. The Russian Federation, which is the host

09.12.2021

REG is inviting to participate at The Roundtable “Migrants’ access to healthcare in Eastern Europe and Central Asia”

On December 17, 2021 Regional Expert Group on Migration and Health, TB Europe Coalition with support from HIV Policy Lab (Georgetown University) will hold a Roundtable “Migrants access to healthcare in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: shaping interventions grounded in research evidence” timed to the International Migrant Day. The event will be broadcasted online via

25.11.2021

REG country representatives to discuss problems of HIV-positive migrants in Tbilisi

The development of the epidemic indicates that migrants are one of the most vulnerable groups un terms of access to health care. In order to find a way to enable foreign citizens to have access to HIV services no matter what country they are in, the country representatives and the partners of the Regional Group

22.09.2021

REG to chair a Migration and Health session at the HSE conference called “Integration of migrants and refugees in the XXI century”

On October 13-15, 2021, an international conference “Migrants and refugees Integration in the 21st Century” will be held at the the Institute for Social Policy of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Co-organizers of the conference are the French-Russian Research Center for Social Sciences in Moscow, Regional Expert Group on Migration and Health

17.09.2021

“Sex Work and Migration in CEECA”: SWAN presents s new briefing paper

The Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN) conducted an analysis of the situation and needs of migrant sex workers in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia in early 2021. The results of the analysis are presented in a recent briefing paper “Sex Work and Migration in CEECA”. Despite the significant scale of migration of

19.07.2021

Alexey, 40 y.o., Belarus: “The main issue is within your own mind: whether or not to accept your HIV status”

I come from Minsk. My dream was to work at railways, but my school was affiliated with a college of education, so I had a bigger chance of getting accepted there. I also wanted to become a radio DJ, and even went to audition to a few radio stations in Minsk, but my taciturnity stood

19.07.2021

Olga, 41 y.o., Kazakhstan: “The only inhumane thing is the law, not my diagnosis”

Two years ago, my husband and I decided to move to Russia, our historic land: I am from a family subjected to political repression who were exiled to Kazakhstan; after the collapse of the Soviet Union, my family was rehabilitated. My husband was born in Russia, but his parents moved to Kazakhstan in 1980s. My

19.07.2021

Svetlana, 42 y.o., Ukraine: “We also have a right to live where our home is”

I was born in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in a common soviet family: father a mine worker, mother a cook in a clothing factory canteen. After they divorced, my brother, sister, and I ended up in an orphanage, but later on, my father took me to Vorkuta where he was living at the time. After finishing school,

19.07.2021

Garib, 36 y.o., Tajikistan: “My family does not know about my diagnosis – people there don’t understand what HIV is”

I am a simple person from a Tajikistan village. Now I look at my life from my late thirties and think that I could have been a common Tajik street sweeper, one of many thousands in Moscow, married with kids, who visits home once a year; and there would not have been any of this.

19.07.2021

Tamara, 47 y.o., Georgia: “For the state officials, it is easier to send people away than to solve their problems”

I come from a Georgian town of Rustavi where my parents worked at a metallurgic plant famous from the times of USSR. This town was founded by my grandfather. I went to school there. My two brothers went to study in Khimki, Russia, right after having finished high school in our home town. One of

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