IOM - Spaces of Vulnerability, Moving Beyond Stigmatizing Migrants

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18th International AIDS Conference: IOM Satellite Event - Spaces of Vulnerability, Moving Beyond Stigmatizing Migrants

Within the global AIDS response, mobile populations are often identified as a target for HIV prevention. The term "migrants" is used to discuss diverse populations, from highly mobile workers to emigrants overseas. Migration does not equal HIV vulnerability, and not all migrants are at increased risk to HIV due to their mobility. Policy-makers must "unpack" this relationship in order to target interventions to those migrants who do face increased risk of HIV infection.

Research and field experience show that it may be useful to focus on spaces of vulnerability where mobile populations interact with sedentary populations. The IOM Satellite Session Spaces of Vulnerability will explore the latest research, the lessons learned, and the way forward to reducing HIV vulnerability and risk behaviours among all populations living and working in spaces of vulnerability.

The session will feature presentations by Rev. Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo from Caritas Internationalis and Dr. Asif Altaf Chowdery from The International Transport Workers’ Federation, in addition to Marin Malu from ACHIEVE and JUNIMA and Penpaktr Uthis from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

Venue: Session Room 7, XVII International AIDS Conference "Rights Here, Rights Now"

Time: 20 July 2010, 7:00 – 8:30 AM

For more information, please see:
http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/events/eventEU/cache/offonce?entryId=28000

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