Overcoming Barriers to HIV Prevention and Healthcare Among Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Spain
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Letter about HIV prevention and healthcare access for migrants; a public health commentary, not a study of research.
This commentary discusses HIV prevention and healthcare access among migrants, not research practice.
Public-health commentary on HIV testing access for migrants, not a study of research itself.
Abstract
Fakoya and colleagues explored factors associated with access to HIV testing and primary care among migrants living in nine European countries-including Spain-in their study recently published in this journal [1].The authors highlighted the importance of continued HIV knowledge and awareness initiatives aimed at migrant communities.We would like to emphasize that linguistic and cultural adaptation of such initiatives is crucial to send effective preventative messages and to overcome barriers to healthcare access and medical follow-up, especially among sub-Saharan African migrants (SSAM).Furthermore, we highly recommend the participation of intercultural mediators and we consider that the institutional support is vital to ensure the strategies' continuity.We would like to comment on some methods and key results of the HIV prevention program carried out with migrants by the National Referral Centre for Tropical Diseases of the Hospital Ramón y Cajal in Madrid.With the aim of overcoming barriers to healthcare and HIV-prevention among migrants, the program was created in 2006 by a team of physicians, translators, intercultural mediators and a psychologist, focusing on SSAM living in Spain.From 2007, the program ("New citizens, new patients") started to cover more topics (such as Chagas disease [2], tuberculosis or travel-related diseases [3]) and to reach migrants from different continents and regions (Latin-America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Maghreb, Asia).This HIV-prevention program-still ongoing-is based on the following pillars:
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- Migration, Health and Trauma
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- Psychology
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- ReferralHealth careLatin AmericansImmigrationMedicinePolitical scienceEconomic growthGeographyFamily medicine
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