International Organization for Migration promoting migrant health

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International Organization for Migration
promoting migrant health
Christopher Gilpin PhD MPHGlobal Laboratory
Manager17, routes des Morillons CH-1211
Genevacgilpin_at_iom.int
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International Organization for Migration Who
are We?

• The International Organization for Migration
  (IOM) (www.iom.int) is the leading
  inter-governmental organization in the field of
  migration and works closely with governmental,
  intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.
  IOM works in the four broad areas of migration
  management
• Migration and development
• Facilitating migration
• Regulating migration
• Forced migration
• 122 member states, gt400 field locations, 5600
  staff worldwide
• Migration health is one of the IOM activities
  that cuts across these areas of migration
  management. TB diagnosis is the main focus of
  IOMs health assessment programmes

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Migration Health Department

• Migration Health Assessments and Travel
• USRP,UKTBDP, PDMA Canada, Australia and NZ
• In 2006, gt120,000 HA
• AFB microscopy and culture are integral
  components
• Health promotion and assistance to migrants
• Migration health assistance to crisis affected
  populations

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Capacity Buildingmain activities in
resource-limited settings among hard to reach
populations

• Thailand
• Bangladesh
• Pakistan
• Nepal
• Myanmar
• Vietnam
• North Caucasus
• Kenya
• Ghana

Building TB laboratories Establish appropriate
bio-safety Provide equipment Knowledge transfer
and training Dissemination of best
practice Knowledge of local conditions -identify
gaps and priorities

All projects currently funded by donors and
governments
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IOM Date Generation

• Different regions and populations provide unique
  data
• Implements standard methodology for AFB
  bacteriology
• Development of a global standardized TB web-based
  laboratory database enabling standard data
  collection and performance monitoring
• Evaluation of new TB diagnostic tools in
  collaboration with FIND

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IOM as a GLI Partner

• Expectations
• Integration of IOM as a full partner in the GLI
  due to our unique strategic position
• Support IOMs established laboratory
  infrastructure in countries to link with NTPs to
  expand local capacity for quality assured TB
  bacteriology
• Use IOM as a resource for training in microscopy,
  culture and DST
• Facilitate IOM to contribute to the development
  and implementation of a TB laboratory
  accreditation scheme.

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Planned activities

• Address the health needs of different migrant
  groups and vulnerable mobile populations esp.
  Africa
• Evaluate new tools and diagnostic algorithms to
  address enhanced case detection and MDR-TB
  detection among mobile populations