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Общи :: Training of the new health mediators from the Class of 2015

Training of the new health mediators from the Class of 2015

Graduation examSofia,  March 25 2015

On March 20, 2015 started the training of the new class of Roma health mediators. 26 people from 20 municipalities have successfully passed the local concourses and are now a part of the health mediation program. The training course, as in previous years, is taking place at the public health faculty of Sofia Medical University (MU) in the premises of “Tzaritza Yoanna” hospital in Sofia. The training is organized for a fourth consecutive year by the National Network of Health Mediators (NNHM) in partnership with MU- Sofia. The trainers for the health mediation program – experts of Ethnic Minorities’ Health Problems Foundation (EMHPF) and BFPA (BFPA team is represented this year again by Dr. Radosveta Stamenkova and Ventzislav Kirkov) – are highly qualified and experienced experts, and also long-term partners. In addition to their effort comes the expertise of the professors from the Medical University.

This year as well the new members of the health mediators’ team have been chosen after strict selection process in each municipality with the participation of municipal representatives, RHI, local communities  and NNHM. Their selection is based on several criteria – high school education, being originally from the community, good knowledge of and empathy for the problems of the community, fluency in the language/s/ of the community. The “new recruits” are smart, driven and are able to cope with the intensive flows of information they receive. The field work is about to come very soon.
In 2015 there will be 170 health mediators working in 99 communities country-wide. BFPA will enlarge its reproductive health and health education and info provision activities with the new mediators and the new municipalities.  The first step for the mediators is in the beginning of April – the final exams and afterwards the certificates ceremony.

 

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