The government’s immigration strategy is a risk to public health as the “hostile environment” it has created makes migrants less likely to get treatment for infectious diseases, experts have warned. Migrants living here legally are also affected by a raft of policies which work to deter them from seeking early testing or care for complications, the National Aids Trust (NAT) has told The Independent. “Migration is the major issue for anyone working on HIV and sexual health,” the charity’s director of strategy, Yusef Azad said. “One cannot underestimate the degree to which the hostile environment creates an atmosphere of fear and suspicion and distance for many migrant communities from health care.” Read more Windrush citizen told to pay for cancer treatment ‘unclear on future’ Theresa May ignored warnings about ‘hostile environment’ policies Hostile environment policy seen as ‘almost reminiscent of Nazi Germany The result of these barriers “is that we fail to diagnose people with infectious diseases early and it spreads to the general population”, he said, adding that with HIV “the key problem is getting people diagnosed”. The warning comes as Theresa May and the Home Office are embroiled in a scandal over the status of the Windrush generation who emigrated from the West Indies…