The Health Ministry is planning treatment programs for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS patients tailored to labor migrants and asylum seekers, amid a gradual rise in patient numbers in these communities.
Physicians for Human Rights, however, questions the Health Ministry's figures, saying "the use of diseases to label populations is counterproductive."
According to the Health Ministry, over the last decade, 586 labor migrants and asylum seekers have been diagnosed with tuberculosis, making up 13 percent of all TB sufferers. Meanwhile, 584 labor migrants and asylum seekers have been diagnosed with HIV, 17 percent of all new HIV carriers identified.
The numbers indicate an annual rise of between 2 percent and 3 percent in rates of the two diseases in this population group over the past five years.
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