FILM: HEALTH MEDIATORS

What do you do when a whole community struggles to access healthcare? In the 1990s the rates of tuberculosis infection were a hundred times higher amongst the Bulgarian Roma than in Western Europe. And many were dying of totally preventable diseases. The solution was to train up health mediators; members of the Roma community who act as a bridge between their neighbourhood, and doctors and the health system.

So twenty years on how successful have they been? TB is still a big problem, and child mortality is still three times higher than the rest of Bulgaria.

This film was made by МY CENTURY https://mycentury.tv within the project “E-lessons from history for a post-COVID-19 Bulgaria” supported by the Active Citizens Fund Bulgaria.