INITIATIVES Public Health, Environmental Protection
PUBLIC HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Partnership for Open Society aims to facilitate the reforms and development of health and environmental protection by assisting the policy development and legislation improvement with a primary focus on the following areas:
Public Health
• Improving the legal framework of public health with a special focus on vulnerable groups, HIV/AIDS patients, drug addicts, mentally disabled people, protection of their fundamental rights, legal acknowledgement and elimination of their discrimination;
• Supporting initiatives aimed at promoting improvement of public health, primarily in terms of increased efficiency of subsidized health care and medical insurance;
• Assisting projects promoting public awareness, objective media coverage and assistance to drug addicts, sex workers, people with HIV/ AIDS and mentally disabled;
• Fostering activities that seek to address health-related and social needs of the disabled, development of community services for disabled.
Environmental Protection
With regard to environmental protection, Partnership focuses on the following issues:
• Improving legislation on environmental protection;
• Developing legal policy aimed at preventing the degradation of wildlife that leads to climatic changes;
• Promoting public awareness of the need to preserve and expand green areas, wide publicity of tree planting activities and maximal public involvement in the process;
• Ensuring regional cooperation along directions above.
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Public Health, Environmental Protection
