Health Promotion and Assistance for Migrants

The Health Promotion and Assistance for Migrants programme at IOM’s Migration Health Division (MHD) provides high-quality health services to migrant beneficiaries, including workers, victims of trafficking, seasonal migrants, displaced populations, refugees, labour migrants, and the communities that host them. In addition to technical support and capacity building for government agencies, the programme promotes evidence-based migration health policies. The MHD programme areas cover a wide range of health topics, including emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases such as influenza, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases, as well as mental health, reproductive health, gender-based violence, climate change, and human rights issues.

In Nepal, IOM has supported the National Tuberculosis Control Center (NTCC) in strengthening TB prevention and control. IOM has implemented three waves of the TB Reach-funded project aimed at improving TB case detection in Eastern Nepal and introduced GeneXpert technology in eight centres. Additionally, IOM worked with the National TB Control Center (NTCC) to deploy the cutting-edge AI tool (qXR) for TB detection for the first time in Nepal in two large Kathmandu University-affiliated research hospitals in Koshi and Bagmati Provinces, serving a combined population of more than two million Nepalese.