Roma Health in France Worsened Since Crackdown, Group Says
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The health of Roma migrants in France has deteriorated in the past year as repeated destructions of their camps has made access to medical care more difficult, a French charity group said.
A year after President Nicolas Sarkozy called for illegal gypsy camps to be dismantled, about 2.5 percent of people living in Roma camps have tuberculosis, Francois Corty, head of French operations at Medecins du Monde, said in an interview. A few years ago the figure was close to the overall French average of 0.03 percent of the population with TB, he said.