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The Public Health Program works closely with individual Soros foundations to implement policies and support local organizations. Find out more about Soros foundations.

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About OSI & Roma Health
OSI's Roma Health Project, part of the Public Health Program, works to promote equal access of Roma to appropriate and quality health care services, and encourages full participation of Roma advocates in developing and shaping health policies. more

Publications & Articles

OSI Supports Journalists Investigating Health Care for Roma
March 20, 2008
OSI's Roma Health project supported the Center for Independent Journalism, based in Romania, to develop investigative journalism on the topic of access to health care for Roma.  more

Malignant Neglect
Seyward Darby
October 10, 2007
Romani women in Hungary are three times more likely than other women to die of breast cancer—and the reasons are avoidable, according to this article in the OSI-supported journal Transitions Onlinemore

Persistence Pays: The Challenges and Rewards of One NGO’s Health Promotion Outreach Among Roma Drug Users
September 2007
Produced with the support of OSI’s Roma Health Project, this report outlines health promotion efforts undertaken among the Roma community by the Initiative for Health Foundation, based in Sofia.  more

News & Announcements

New Scholarship Program Will Support Roma in Medical Studies
Press Release
April 15, 2008
The Roma Education Fund and OSI's Roma Health Project launched a scholarship program for Roma students to pursue medical and pharmaceutical studies in Central and Eastern Europe.  more

Roma Rights Group Files Complaint Against Bulgaria for Health Care Discrimination
March 5, 2008
With support from OSI, the European Roma Rights Centre filed a complaint with the European Committee of Social Rights, charging that Bulgaria systematically excludes Roma from access to health care.  more

Events

European Youth and AIDS Seminar
Bucharest, Romania
June 27, 2008
Supported by the European Commission, DG SANCO and OSI's Roma Health Project, the European Youth and AIDS Seminar promotes the development of community-based HIV/AIDS NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in the new and future Member States of the European Union.  more

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