Access to care

Kazakhstan is the only CIS country where tuberculosis diagnostics and treatments are available for everyone free of charge. The government provides treatment, while non-governmental organizations provide assistance to patients. Natalia Zholnerova, the head of Amelia Civic Organization, talks about joint attempts of the government and NGOs to fight tuberculosis in Kazakhstan. Migrants from Central Asia

A study by Ekaterina Demintseva and Daniel Kashnitsky has discovered the reasons of “Kyrgyz clinics” appeal among migrants in Russia. When migrants seek medical care, they usually choose a clinic and a doctor based on friends’ and acquaintances’ recommendations. This is the rationale and the impetus for the emergence and success of the so-called ‘Kyrgyz

Anna Ryl, Korgau-Astana foundation manager, talks about migrants’ life in Kazakhstan After Russia, Kazakhstan is the second leading country in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region by the number of migrants entering the country. Mainly, they arrive to Kazakhstan from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, as well as China and Turkey.  For 15 years,

In December 2020, Dmitry Poletaev, Director of Migrant Studies Center, published a study named “Health of labor migrants from Eurasian Economic Union in Russia (based on the example of migrants from Kyrgyzstan)”. The document is based on two sociology studies performed by the expert in 2016 and 2017 among labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan. The aim

Sergey Ievkov, founder of “Charitable Hospital”, talks about the need to help migrants’ kids for the future of Russia. It started with my turns in a pediatric department of the observation maternity hospital in Saint Petersburg; this is where migrants and women with HIV end up giving birth, as well as any other person who

Valentina Chupik, executive director of Tong Djahoni, an organization advocating migrants’ rights, explains how volunteers helped migrants to get medical care during the pandemic. Valentina Chupik mentions that about 30 people per year come to Tong Djahoni with the issues related to healthcare. Among those who came to me in 2020, there were migrants with

26 Feb 2021 Most labour migrants in Russia are males, but in recent years the percentage of females has been growing, even among migrants from Central Asia. For a long time, they were not the focus of most studies investigating migrants’ needs and health issues. The study Elizabeth King, Victoria Dudina, and Svetlana Dubrovskaya have

A study on migrants and coronavirus implemented by the Center of Regional and Urban Studies at the Russian Presidential Academy of the National Economy and Public Administration.  The study shows that migrants from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have demonstrated responsible behaviors towards coronavirus more than Russians. In July 2020, a group of scientists from RANEPA (Evgeny

Dmitry Poletaev, Director of the Migration Studies Center , talks about migrants’ attitude towards their health Dmitry Polеtaev, Director of the Migration Studies Center and a leading scientific fellow at the Institute for National Economic Forecasts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is a coauthor of several studies dedicated to migrants and healthcare. According to Dmitry,

How do migrants act when in need of medical care? Here, we explain five main strategies described in a study by Ekaterina Demintseva and Daniel Kashnitsky, investigators from the Institute for Social Policy, HSE University Russia is one of the most popular and important destinations for labor migrants from ex-Soviet republics, especially low-income Central Asian