The Migrant Health ProjectThe Migrant Health Project

Improvement of Health Conditions of Migrants in Five Priority Provinces of

Thailand

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BackgroundBackground 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

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Main ObjectiveMain 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.

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Specific PurposesSpecific 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

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Migrants and their Thai Host Communities

Replicable Model

Migrant CHW Training Module

Migrant HIS

Financial Schemes / Options

Environmental Health Projects

Tak Province

USAID

Chiang Rai

Province

USAID

Shan Migrants

EC

Samutsakorn Province

Ranong Provinc

e

Agencies

Governments

Donors

migrant health team

community outreach

medical equipments/supplies

health post

planningtraining

MOPH / Provincial / District Health Office & Facilities

project developmentcross fertilization

assessmentsdata gathering

project review

fund raising

baseline indicators

MHP MHP DesignDesign

training module & IEC

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Progress to date:Progress to date: Established and currently supporting MHP Team

and Field Offices under the PHO since Nov 2003

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Progress to date: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

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Progress to date:Progress to date: Supporting health promotion, community outreach

activities and provision of “migrant-friendly” health services to migrants since Dec03

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Progress to date:Progress to date: Designed and currently implementing the

participatory baseline health needs assessment of migrants in the two provinces

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Progress to date:Progress to date: Processing the procurement medical equipments

and supplies with PHO, MOPH and IOM

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