MCN staff member Deliana Garcia, Director International Projects, Research and Development, plays an integral part at the 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health in Lille, France.
The following is a description of the workshop she played an important part in organizing, entitled TB and migration: barriers and solution:
“Globally, a great challenge to the prevention of TB is its presence among migrants with a regular status, internally displaced persons (IDP), refugees and assylees or undocumented migrants. These situations create the need for comprehensive yet flexible systems of care to meet the variety of barriers and challenges inherent in these populations' care, particularly in regard to TB. Recent changes in the economy and subsequent changes in policy or practice call for a renewed commitment on the part of the TB community to seek solutions for challenges brought by mobility, poverty, fear, language differences and other barriers to accessing care.”