In Slovakia, as elsewhere in Europe segregated Roma face much greater difficulties accessing and receiving standard healthcare services compared to other citizens. An new briefing by EPHA Roma Health Fellow, Marcela Adamova and Andrej Belak, Institute of Ethnology and...
The first thousand days of a child’s life are vital for their optimal physical and mental development and the realization of their full potential. The lack of adequate nutrition, quality healthcare and prevention services, vaccination, affordable medicines, learning...
As COVID-19 spread across Europe, it has become clear that European Roma, who have some of the lowest opportunities, are among the most vulnerable groups to have been most affected by this public health emergency. Civil society organisations across Europe have already...
The COVID-19 pandemic has added a new challenge to young European Roma and their families. Many Roma children and their families are already living in crowded and unhealthy formal settlements or precarious informal slums, often without access to electricity, running...
The European Public Health Alliance has joined calls from the Roma Education Fund and a number of other organisations to call for the European Commission and EU national governments to ensure that Roma children are not left behind as they implement measures to tackle...