MEXICANS WHO MIGRATE TO USA LEAVE MEXICO HEALTHY BUT GET SICK WHILE HERE
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Correo (Leon, Guanajuato) 10-5-10

Migrants without access to healthcare

Guanajuato – Work related accidents, HIV-AIDS and diabetes are the main problems faced by Mexicans who leave the health care system of this country and go to the United States.

Of the 30.7 million Mexicans who reside in the United States, one out of every three needs medical care, said the Sub-secretary for North America, Julian Ventura, at the tenth Bi-national Conference on Health in the capital city of Guanajuato.

Jose Angel Cordoba Villalobos, Secretary of the Federal Health Agency, said that migrants have double the risk of acquiring illnesses when arriving in the United States, such as HIV-AIDS, obesity, hypertension, mental problems and addiction to tobacco, alcohol and drugs. He said that those addictions increase in a dramatic way among migrants and that there are major psychological disturbances due to the social conditions they live under.

For example, he says, while Mexico has a HIV-AIDS rate of 0.36%, the United States has a 0.80% rate of HIV-AIDS in the migrant population.

Mexico has a 7% diabetes rate while the U.S. has a 20% rate. In the migrant population (in the USA) the diabetes rate is 14%.

The Federal Secretary of Health and Director of the Health Initiative of the Americas, Xochitl Castaneda from the University of California who organized the forum, said “It is a band-aid on a hemorrhage because the health problems of migrants will not be resolved in a week or a month but fellow countrymen in a strange country need medical attention.â€