Migrant worker’s right to health 2013, para. 45
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- Ensuring continuous access to treatment and medicines on a non-discriminatory basis is crucial to the right to health framework. Migratory processes and pressures can expose migrant workers to increased risk of contracting communicable diseases particularly HIV. There is therefore a need to ensure that continuous treatment is available to these populations throughout the entire process. Treatment interruptions, lack of follow-up and treatment failures are documented at higher rates among migrants than the stationary population. Some States have adopted regional frameworks, such as the Ibero-American Social Security Convention, and bilateral social security agreements to ensure "portability" of social security, including health-care benefits, from sending to receiving States, which allows migrant workers to enjoy such benefits, independent of their immigration status. States are encouraged to adopt such approaches with respect to access to treatment for chronic diseases, such as HIV, in order to maximize adherence rates in both sending and receiving States.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Health, Report to the HRC (2013), A/HRC/23/41, para. 45.
- Paragraph number
- 45
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