ROMA WOMEN\u2019S HEALTH<\/b><\/p>\n
For the right to health to be enjoyed, healthcare services must be accessible, available and of good quality for everybody. The same counts for sexual and reproductive health, and \u201ceverybody\u201d includes the socially vulnerable and marginalised women, too. However, in practice, there is lack of general gynaecologists across the country as well as uneven geographic distribution of the employed general gynaecologists across the country, the free preventive examinations for pregnant women are used very little, and the health of Roma women has worsened also because of the illegal charging for general gynaecologists\u2019 services, which are otherwise free of charge. In the heart of things, like some sort of weed, lies the discrimination.<\/p>\n
This is why ever since 2005 we have been providing free and confidential services for sexual and reproductive health through our \u201cI Want To Know\u201d Youth Centre in \u0160uto Orizari.<\/p>\n
In 2012 we launched the legal empowerment programme<\/a> for Roma women in \u0160uto Orizari in order to enable or facilitate their enjoyment of social and health rights through the services provided by a legal advisor and paralegals (i.e. properly trained persons from the community). In 2013 we launched the community monitoring initiative where \u0160uto Orizari Roma women made a first-hand monitoring of the availability and the quality of reproductive health services in the community and they raised the awareness of the local population about reproductive rights. Today, Roma women\u2019s legal empowerment, community monitoring and activism for change, and reproductive health promotion have become a recognition mark of the \u0160uto Orizari Women\u2019s Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n Through the informal Anti-Discrimination Network<\/a>, we engage in advocating the discrimination cases involving (also) Roma (women) and we have become a part of the anti-discrimination policy-making processes.<\/p>\n Read more about:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ROMA AND THE HEALTHCARE WORKERS<\/b><\/p>\n Stereotypes and the communication gap between healthcare workers and the Roma in practice can mean one thing only: inaccessible and\/or poor healthcare services for the Roma. Thanks to our field work we have come to realise that the reasons lie in the insufficient knowledge of some of the healthcare workers about the Roma customs, traditions and culture; as well as of part of the Roma community about the rules of conduct in health facilities. So, we decided to create new stories from the outpatient clinic<\/a>.<\/p>\n Our forum theatre performances in Skopje, Kumanovo, Del\u010devo, Sveti Nikole and Bitola have narrated the stories from the waiting room<\/a> and have encouraged both sides to \u201ctry on the shoes of the other\u201d<\/a> so that they can demolish the wall separating them more easily. As of 2017, together with the Family Medicine Centre, we\u2019ve been developing the communication skills of doctors in accredited trainings \u2013 good practices have proven to us that new stories are possible<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more about:<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ROMA WOMEN\u2019S HEALTH For the right to health to be enjoyed, healthcare services must be accessible, available and of good quality for everybody. The same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9167,"parent":7390,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-single-program.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4455","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11197,"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4455\/revisions\/11197"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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