Geographical Locations - Macedonia

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 420
• CIA World Factbook : Macedonia

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO Country Profile - the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• WHO – Progress in the Prevention of Injuries in the WHO European Region: The former Yugoslave Republic of Macedonia
  International Organization for Migration, Skopje
• UNDP - FYR Macedonia
• UNICEF in FYR Macedonia
• United Nations in FYR Macedonia
• World Bank Macedonia

Government

• Ministry of Education
• Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning
• Ministry of Health
• Ministry of Labour and Social Policy
• State Statistical Office
• USAID Macedonia

Non-Government

• Center for Research and Policy Making
  "The Center for Research and Policy Making is an independent, non-profit policy research institute founded in March 2004. CRPM consists of local researchers as well as external consultants in close contact with the organization. It offers timely, provocative policy analysis on the most pertinent issues. CRPM has no ‘hidden agenda’ but works to promote democratization and economic transformation of the country. It has no party, political or any other organizational affiliation..."
• Healthy Options Project (HOPS)
  HOPS began its operations as a project supported by The Lindensmith Centre and The Open Society Institute Macedonia in 1997. It is a Skopje based not-for-profit organization with 18 part-time employees and 4 volunteers/trainees, mainly medical professionals and social workers. Since its creation, HOPS has successfully implemented programs to reduce drug related harm, prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections as well as social reintegration and re-socialization targeting young people and vulnerable groups.
• Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in the Republic of Macedonia
  The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia (MHC) is a non-governmental organization for human rights promotion and protection, without any political and religious orientation. The MHC monitors the situation of the human rights, provides legal assistance & counseling to the citizens in cases of violation or restriction of the rights and freedoms, and cooperates with other organizations and state authorities in the direction of increasing the promotion, protection and respect for the human rights and freedoms.
• Institute of Protection and Rehabilitation
  Institute of protection and rehabilitation Banja Bansko - Strumica is a social institution which brings up, educates and takes care of persons with physical disabilities. The institution provides health care and rehabilitation for its residents.
• Expert Groups for Romani Integration Republic of Macedonia
  ECMI advances majority-minority relations in the wider Europe through action, research and documentation. It supports the stabilization of areas of ethnopolitical tension and conflict, contributes to the strengthening of relevant legislation and best practices in minority governance, and enhances the capacity of civil society actors and governments to engage with one another in a constructive and sustainable way. This page outlines a project to integrate Romani in Macedonia.
• Macedonian Harm Reduction Network
  The Macedonian Harm Reduction Network aims to: Stimulate networking and cooperation, as well as provide constant information flow among specialists and organizations/institutions active in the field of drug use, HIV/AIDS and human rights on local, national and international level; Advocate harm reduction approaches and methods and promote existing harm reduction programs and provide logistical support for the new ones.
• Macedonian Infectious Diseases Society
  The mission of the Macedonian Infectious Diseases Society is to bring together medical specialist in infectology, microbiology, immunology, pediatric medicine, internal medicine, and family practitioners as well as those who have interest in the exchange of experience, and the following of new trends and research in the area of infectious diseases.
• Macedonian Red Cross
• Research Centre in Gender Studies
  The Research Center in Gender Studies introduces, pursues and promotes the academic legitimacy of the gender/women's/feminist studies research, theoretical investigation and education in Macedonia and in the region of SEE. As a result of its consistent focusing on this basic mission, RCGS succeeded to influence the formal educational system in Macedonia and to incite establishing postgraduate courses in gender studies within the universities in the country.

Academic Institutions

National Policy and Related Documents

• Revitalization of Academic Medicine in Macedonia - An Urgent Need
  This paper, published in the Croatian Medical Journal 54(6), 2004 "presents the current status of the academic medicine of the Skopje University Faculty of Medicine and the necessity of the medical education reform initiated in 2001 by the decision of the Ss. Cyril andMethodius University Rectorate Administration to introduce the credit system in university education in the Republic of Macedonia. This essay describes and reviews the actual conditions and priority problems and needs; proposes activities that should be undertaken to solve and overcome the existing problems and provide further development of teaching and research at the Faculty...."

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Health Care Systems in Transition - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• Joint Submission Shadow Report on the Situation of Romani Women in the Republic of Macedonia
  The Roma Centre of Skopje, the European Roma Rights Centre and the Network Women’s Program, with the support of the UNIFEM regional office in Bratislava, jointly provide this shadow report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. The submission is based in great part on a research project undertaken throughout 2005 by the listed organisations, together with 11 Romani women researchers, which aimed to document the situation of Romani women in Macedonia.
• Privatization of Health Care Provision in a Transition Economy: Lessons from the Republic of Macedonia
  This dissertation has been accepted by the RAND Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Policy Analysis. In 1996 the Government of Macedonia began a comprehensive Health Sector Transition Project (HSTP) under a World Bank credit. The RAND Corporation was under contract to provide technical assistance to the Government of Macedonia on aspects of the health sector financial reforms for primary health care (PHC). The survey research conducted as part of the HSTP Technical Assistance project was supplemented with additional fieldwork and research to examine the behavior of physicians in the existing private sector in PHC and the prospects for further privatisation.
• UNDP National Human Development Reports Macedonia 2004
  The fifth of the NHDRs of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, this 2004 Report focuses on decentralization. It follows the 2001 edition's analysis of social exclusion and human insecurity with a cogent presentation of how devolving decision-making power and appropriate resources to municipalities can help solve closely related problems, notably poverty, unemployment, and shortcomings in health and education.
• US Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Macedonia 2005

Educational Resources

• CDC - Travel Information : Eastern Europe and the NIS
• DFID Health Briefing Paper FYR of Macedonia
• UNAIDS Epidemiological Fact Sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases - FYR Macedonia
• WHO Europe - Highlights on Health FYR Macedonia
  Highlights on health give an overview of a country’s health status, describing recent data on mortality, morbidity and exposure to key risk factors along with trends over time. The reports link country findings to public health policy considerations developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and by other relevant agencies. Highlights on health are developed in collaboration with Member States and do not constitute a formal statistical publication.