HIV/AIDS and Migration

Migrants, who tend to be poor, alone and already stigmatized run a higher risk for HIV infection, rarely have access to regular health care, and experience the greatest human rights violations.Fees for testing, criminalization, and deportation of people with HIV/AIDS is common place in many countries.

"The implications of these policies is that they are growing the stigmatisation of the disease and driving these issues underground, which is exacerbating the problem," Bolivian activist Gracia Violeta Ross Quirogo

As Johal states near the end of the article, clearly we are not moving toward universal access to care for people with HIV/AIDS if we are not focusing attention on these populations of people. It doesn't appear that WHO has taken into consideration these populations and the struggles they face, at least not in the strategic directions outlined in the program.