Project Ripfumelo

The overall objectives of the project are to:

• facilitate, provide, and promote access to TB and combination HIV prevention and care services, technologies, and programmes for migrants and mobile populations and communities affected by migration;
• address structural (societal, environmental, political, and economic) barriers to migrants access to health services; and
• generate strategic information for evidence-informed policy development and programming.

The project is working in selected districts in Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Gauteng, and Kwa Zulu Natal, focusing on areas where migrants and mobile populations live and work. This includes cross border communities and risk zones or "hot spots" along transport corridors and in urban informal settlements, such the City of Johannesburg in Gauteng province and eThekwini Municipality in KZN. It also includes workplaces such as farms and mines, migrant sending communities, detention centres, and emergency settlements for stranded migrants, including shelters run by community-based organisations.

HIV, TB, and broader health activities will be mainstreamed to ensure that migrants understand their rights and are able to access relevant services, as well as ensuring government and other service providers are sensitised on migrants' right to health.

HIV/AIDS, Agriculture

IOM is supporting the government of South Africa at national, provincial, district and local level to implement the recommendations and commitments of World Health Assembly Resolution 61.17, which focuses on the Health of Migrants.