Labor Migration and STI/HIV Risks in Armenia
Labor Migration and STI/HIV Risks in Armenia
Date:
01-11-2012 - 01-03-2013
Status:
Completed
Funder:
Mission East Armenia (ME-Armenia)
Impact area:
Healthcare
Migration
Work and Employment
Project objective
The study will assess the scope, scale and, to a certain extent, the quality of the current interventions aiming at providing HIV prevention among labor migrants, examine the HIV/STI risks in urban and rural Armenia stemming from labor migration, assess the needs for prevention interventions, and produce recommendations for comprehensive, evidence-based, culturally-grounded, and cost-effective interventions to reduce these risks.
Research design
Full data collection survey, sample size – 2500 migrant and non-migrant households from urban and rural communities with a goal to obtain a 2-to-1 ratio of migrant households to non-migrant households; in-depth and expert interviews, desk study.