Posts In: health
MoVE, participation, and partnerships
A consistent aspect of method:visual:explore projects (MoVE) has been the partnerships that create the conditions necessary for various projects to occur. Most MoVE projects usually occur in some partnership with a specialist social organisation, and sometimes, with another research body. This post takes stock of some of these connections.
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Health care for migrants in South Africa
This flyer outlines the South African Constitution, Refugees Act and the National Health Act say about the health rights of migrants.
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Before you judge me, KNOW MY STORY: review by Joy Watson
Nasty Women blogger Joy Watson reviews maHp’s KNOW MY STORY participatory arts-based research project.
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A global research agenda on migration, mobility, and health
This paper by the Members of the Researchers on Migration, Mobility and Health Group explores the five core areas in which action is needed to support the development of a global research agenda on migration, mobility, and health.
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Work and wellbeing on the urban periphery
The latest maHp research collaboration with Security at the Margins (SeaM) sought to understand the labour and health/wellbeing conditions that informal artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) communities on the periphery of Johannesburg reside in (download the full report here).
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SeaM: Security at the Margins
Security at the Margins – SeaM – was a three-year partnership between the University of Edinburgh and the University of Witwatersrand. Our aim was to use innovative, interdisciplinary methods to explore (in)security on the urban margins in South Africa. Our partnership was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the South Africa National Research Foundation (NRF).
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Workshop on “Analysing Patient Mobility, Migration and Health” (20-21 March 2017)
In collaboration with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of York, maHp will be co-hosting a workshop on “Analysing Patient Mobility, Migration and Health” next week.
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Mobility, migration and generalised HIV epidemics: a focus on sub-Saharan Africa
Vearey, J. (2016) Mobility, migration and generalised HIV epidemics: a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. In: Thomas, F. (ed) Handbook of Migration and Health. Edward Elgar Publishing: UK
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The Double Stigma of Migration and Sex Work
“From a migrant’s perspective from another country you face a double stigma as sex workers first because you are from another country, second because you are a sex worker in a country where sex work is criminalised” said Lindah
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Policy Dialogue on Migration, Sex Work and Health (9 Nov. 2016)
This dialogue brings together stakeholders working on the above issues in order to work towards a collective research and advocacy agenda for 2017.
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Op-ed: Sex workers essential to meeting new HIV targets
South Africa has committed itself to reaching the world’s latest batch of ambitious targets, but it will not meet them without sex workers.
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