Introduction

            The project Educational and Medical Integration of Vulnerable Minority Groups with the Special Focus on Roma – Component 3 Health started on 1 June 2006 and will last until 31 January 2008 (20 months). The project aims to contribute to the access of the Roma to health care and thereby – deliver real support and real, albeit partial, solutions in keeping with the greater aims of Roma inclusion in Bulgaria. In particular, the project aim is to implement the health care strategic policies of the Framework Programme for equal Integration of the Roma into the Bulgarian Society through:

• Support for improvement of the equal access to health care services;
• Support for qualification of medical staff to work in multicultural environment;
• Support to preventive health care services;
• Support for health promotion and education for vulnerable minorities groups.

The following project results are anticipated to be achieved:

• A curriculum for medical specialties at 5 universities and 14 nursing colleges to teach students to better work with the Roma community;
• A training programme for 30 university lecturers and 28 nursing colleges lecturers to introduce them into the new curriculum;
• A curriculum for the college education of mediators between the health care system and the Roma community developed;
• Maximum 50 mediators educated in the medical colleges;
• Preventive health care services programme implemented in 5 pilot regions directed at increasing the proportion of Roma population having access to preventive examinations ;
• Health promotion and education programme implemented in the same regions to raise the awareness of the Roma communities about pressing health care issues.

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Recent Developments

October '07	Training of General Practitioners and Nurses
October '07	Training of University and Mediacal college lecturers I
November '07	Training of University and Mediacal college lecturers II
December, 3rd	Steering Committee
December, 5th	Conference on Minority Access to Health Care and Final conference at hotel Rila, Sofia

Upcoming events

December '07	Finalisation and submition of the final report
January '08	Final Report approval and project finalisation

 

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