Specification of Policy for the Barriers to Care and Treatment of Nepali Migrants Living with HIV/AIDS in India

Nepal is one of the friendly nations of India in the Indian subcontinent. There are no severe international conflicts between India and Nepal. Moreover, cultural commonality is also essential in sustaining friendly relations between two countries. Therefore, the migration from Nepal to India is well established and unobjectionable phenomenon. There are no restrictions and basic requirements for Nepali migrants to come to India. Nepali migrants are coming to India without their families; hence there are high chances of being involved in sex avenues due to loneliness and their reproductive age group. Thus, they are at high risk and get infected with HIV. Later on, they transfer HIV to the general population in Nepal after their return. It is imperative to control such consequences. Therefore, it is necessary to provide preventive and health care services to Nepali Migrants. Therefore, it is crucial to study the existing policies for people living with HIV/AIDS concerning health care treatment. It is equally important to study the challenges for Nepali migrants to access health care treatment due to the existing policy. There is also a need to focus on the recommendations to develop the future policy to deal with the challenges of Nepali migrants to access the health care treatment without any hindrances. In this study, the qualitative and quantitative approach was adopted to collect the data from the Nepali migrants living with HIV/AIDS. Overall 50 Nepali migrants living with HIV/AIDS were interviewed and 4 Focussed Group Discussions were conducted to elicit the in-depth knowledge on the issues of Nepali migrants living with HIV/AIDS. Apart from that, the three Key Informant Interviews of health care providers were also done to understand their perspective regarding issues of Nepali migrants living with HIV/AIDS.