© Isabelle Ferry/MSF

Many asylum seekers in France do not receive a residence permit or their asylum applications are denied. Not having any legal status has serious social consequences – no home, no social assistance, no right to work – which in turn cause problems in accessing healthcare.

© Alexander Glyadyelov

Almost 20 per cent of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Georgia are estimated to be multidrug-resistant forms of the disease, according to the World Health Organization. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) collaborates with the national TB programme, and facilitates access to healthcare for marginalised people.

© Olmo Calvo

Thousands of migrants and asylum seekers are living in detention or in open centres in Malta, and conditions can be very hard. Unwelcoming measures are affecting migrants’ health. In 2008, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) set up a programme to provide medical and psychological care in the detention centres to which all new arrivals were sent.

© Lana Abramova

The number of violent incidents in the North Caucasus, in the south of Russia, increased in 2010. Most occurred in the Republic of Dagestan, although Ingushetia, Chechnya and Kabardino-Balkaria also saw more deaths as a result of violence.