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Conference: Public Health in Serbia and Decade of Roma Inclusion

In the initial year of the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015, PALGO Center organized a conference “Public Health in Serbia and Decade of Inclusion of Roma”, supported by the Fund for an Open Society (Belgrade) and the Open Society Institute (Budapest).

The Conference, held on December 21, 2005 in Sava Center, Belgrade, was aimed at gathering representatives of the relevant institutions of central and local authorities, Roma leaders, and members of international and non-governmental organizations dealing in matters of importance for the public health sector in Serbia, and also the health care of Roma national minority.

The chief topics at the Conference were formulated thus:

What to expect of the Law on Health Care in relation to health care of Roma?
Role and plans of local community self-rule units in realizing the goals of the Decade of Roma Inclusion.
Does the Law on the Budget of the Republic of Serbia foresees adequate funds for the realization of the Action Plan in the field of health care?

The following was emphasized as some of the crucial problems in approaching the health care of Roma people: impossibility of realizing one’s health care rights without the registered place of residence, missing personal documents, prejudices, financial participation, and irresponsible attitudes of Roma themselves toward their own health status.

The conference pleaded with the representatives of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights, to publish at their web presentations, for the purpose of greater transparency, the allocation plan for the budget funds reserved for the realization of the Action Plan in the sphere of health care.

Conference attendees: Jelena Marković (assistant to the minister for human and minority rights, national coordinator of the Decade of Roma Inclusion), Osman Balić (YUROM Center), Petar Antić (Center for Minority Rights), Đorđe Stojiljković (Ministry of Health, Development and Reform Sector), Đurđica Zorić (Roma Women Center “Bibija”), Marjan Muratović (Yugoslav Association for Culture and Association of Roma People), Anne-Maria Ćurković (Secretariat for Roma National Strategy), Jadranka Stojanović (Fund for an Open Society, Serbia), Borka Jeremić (UNDP), Vesna Jovanović (Care International), Davor Rako (UNHCR), Ljubinka Smiljanić (UNHCR), Mirko Vučinić (UNHCR), Darko Mišić (member of the municipal council, Novi Beograd), Predrag S. Šalinger (Health Center Leskovac), Vanja Ilić (County coordinator for health promotion, Leskovac), Silvija Koso (CIDA), Anđelka Miljević (Roma Children Center), Mijat Damjanović (PALGO Center), Dejan Pavlović (PALGO Center).