Enhancing Access to HIV Prevention and Treatment for Migrants and their Families in Uzbekistan

  • Start Date
    2022
  • End Date
    2024
  • Project Status
    Active
  • Project Type
    Health Promotion and Assist for Migrants
  • Budget Amount (USD)
    300000.00
  • Coverage
    National
  • Year
    2022
  • IDF Region
    Asia and Oceania
  • Prima ID
    UZ10P0508
  • Projects ID
    MA.0532
  • Benefiting Member States
    Uzbekistan
The legal framework for countering Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Uzbekistan includes the Law on Prevention of Diseases Caused by HIV (2013) and the Presidential Resolution (2018). The Law does not expressly refer to migrants. The Presidential Resolution includes the Government Programme on countering the spread of HIV, which covered only 2018. Reportedly, the Government of Uzbekistan has since drafted a new HIV programme. Migrant-inclusive programming is currently not a practice, but the Government is making an effort to mainstream migration into future policies. According to the latest UNAIDS reports, HIV rates continue to significantly increase in Central Asia, including Uzbekistan, affecting key populations and their sexual partners, including migrants and mobile men. This is of concern given the increased vulnerability to HIV and poor access to HIV prevention and care in host countries among migrants and their family members who lack due access to proper information during the migration cycle. The proposed project therefore aims to contribute to the Uzbek Government's efforts to counter the spread of HIV through a migrant-inclusive approach to HIV policy development and increasing awareness levels of HIV prevention and treatment among migrants and their families. To do so, the project will contribute to awareness-raising on HIV among local communities, particularly spouses of migrants, capacity building of service providers on migrant-inclusive HIV prevention and care, and policy development. The project progress will be monitored jointly with national partners by means of a gender and age-disaggregated KAP survey among migrants and their family members.