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Spain
Staff: 12 MSF has carried out programs in Spain since 1994 In Spain, MSF addresses the health needs of undocumented migrants and asylum-seekers who lack access to health care under the country's new immigration laws, and for whom there is little political will to improve reception conditions. Since February 2003, MSF assisted approximately 500 immigrants living in the woods near Ceuta, a Spanish city on the north coast of Africa, providing them with items to improve their shelter and sanitary conditions and with food and medical care. In Ceuta itself, a new project providing medical and psychological assistance to around 150 unaccompanied and undocumented Moroccan children started in October 2002; it was closed in June 2003 because of lack of political will to work toward lasting solutions. Since July 2003 these children have been given medical assistance in the framework of the project for undocumented immigrants. In Barcelona, MSF advocates for harm-reduction programs for drug addicts in the prisons of Catalonia. A tuberculosis program for immigrants and other vulnerable people in Madrid ended in October 2002.
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