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7. Médecins du Monde's European projects
 
7. Médecins du Monde's European projects
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Most of the other European MdM offices also run healthcare projects in their own countries. These projects offer medical care to the most vulnerable people in European societies, as well as helping them to access mainstream health services.

·         MdM Belgium has two projects working with vulnerable migrants and homeless people. One project takes place at night, providing primary care and support to access housing. Another one provides consultant care to those excluded from mainstream health services, informing them about their rights to accessing services - as well as helping them access it.

 ·         MdM France has 110 domestic projects working with vulnerable populations such as: homeless people, the Roma, vulnerable migrants, drug users and street sex workers. There are 21 healthcare centres that provide primary care and support to access mainstream services, and 13 harm reduction projects. The rest of the projects are mobile units. MdM France’s ‘Mission France’ work focuses on either a targeted population, or on a specific area (street and squat outreach; outreach in partner organisations/ emergency accommodation centres; health promotion on specific topic/group; heat wave project, etc)

 ·      MdM Greece runs more than 10 projects providing care, social support and sometimes counselling to those excluded from the healthcare system. They have two polyclinics; two harm reduction programmes; a Roma project; a trafficked people project; a newcomers outreach programme at the border; a homeless project, an asylum seeker project, a project to support remote villages and a juvenile prison programme.

·         MdM Italy runs more than five projects providing care to the most vulnerable such as: people without resources: irregular migrants; drug users or the Roma. They have one centre providing primary care and some specialist care for people excluded from mainstream health services, two mobile clinics, a heat wave programme for elderly people, a winter clinic for those without shelter, a detention centre programme and a medicines collection programme.

·         MdM Netherlands has two new projects: one health promotion project with the Roma, and one ‘healthcare passport’ project providing undocumented migrants with a personal document informing them about their right to access healthcare in the Netherlands through a special fund and facilitating continuity of care and communication with health professionals.

·         MdM Portugal has four domestic projects: two health promotion projects (one working with isolated elderly people, the other working with inhabitants of a poor urban area), one primary care mobile clinic working with homeless and vulnerable migrants, two healthcare projects working with vulnerable elderly people.

 ·         MdM Spain has more than 25 domestic projects using both healthcare centres and mobile units. There are primary care projects providing support to vulnerable migrants to reach the mainstream health services and harm reductions projects for sex workers and drug users.

 ·         MdM Sweden runs one mobile clinic helping vulnerable migrants excluded from access to mainstream health services.

 

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