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Many persons in the EU do not have access to basic health and social services. This poses a treat to their own health and well-being and to public health in general. They live permanently or temporarily outside mainstream society, because they belong to a stigmatised group (ethnic minorities, sex workers), engage in unaccepted risk behaviour (drug users) or find themselves in risk situations (youngsters experimenting with party drugs), in which they cannot appeal to the protecting safety structures of mainstream society. They cannot be identified as one group or category of people, but they share a combination of the following characteristics: homelessness, stigmatised (risk) behaviour, low social economic status, social exclusion, illegal judicial status, mobility, migration, part of an ethnic minority group. Many of them are involved in drug use and sex work. |
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