Interview with Prof Joseph Pace
The EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL 2012 – a review of access to HIV prevention, treatment and care among migrants in the EU conducted between May and September 2008. (App 1) and The 2008 WHO Europe and UNAIDS progress report on the Dublin Declaration commitments (App 2)
and strongly supports these measures especially the vital necessity to pool information among destination countries with the setting up of an expert panel to agree on a Best Practice Guidelines document for management of health needs of migrants, with special attention to STI, and, to obtain the necessary support in both human and financial resources to achieve the quality of care envisaged in such guidelines. notes that little or no action has been taken to address a situation that imperils human rights, health status of both immigrants and local populations, and agrees completely with what has been expressed repeatedly but seemingly ineffectively with regard to Migrant health and calls on the EU Health Commissioner and the Commissioner for Migrants to act decisively and to implement these actions as a matter of urgency.
PASSED UNANIMOUSLY 20 September 2014 Appendix 1
• From The EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL 2012 – a review of access to HIV prevention, treatment and care among migrants in the EU conducted between May and September 2008. Wherein It concluded that among Challenges- adequate and sustainable funding for government agencies’ and NGOs’ community-based prevention and care interventions Key suggested actions – Tangible EU support at both National and EUROPEAN levels for a European-wide network of organisations working on migration and HIV to share resources, experience and good practice, and stronger links and cooperation between associations of healthcare and social care professionals, migrant and human rights organizations at EU and national levels. Appendix 2 From The 2008 WHO Europe and UNAIDS progress report on the Dublin Declaration commitments that • identified migrants as particularly vulnerable to HIV • highlighted the link between the health of migrants and that of all EU citizens • invited Member States to integrate migrant health into national policies • European Commission to establish a network of national experts on migration and health