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Miodraga
Miodraga Stefanovska


Gender and Age:		Female, 25
Location:		Karpos, Karpos
Country of Residence:		Macedonia
Country of Birth:		Macedonia
Nationalities:		Macedonian
Citizenships:		Macedonia
Languages:		English , Macedonian , Bosnian , Bulgarian , Serbian , Serbo-Croatian



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About Me

Miodraga Stefanovska is born on 28th of May, 1983. Graduated on the Institute of Social work and social policy, University "St. Ciril and Metodij", Skopje. She has 9 years experience of working on health and social education with special focus on AIDS prevention in multicultural environment in Macedonia and internationally, particularly in the NGO sector. As a consultant, she offers services in a range of areas relating to Health and Social Development. She represented Macedonia at the UNGASS-Children and HIV/AIDS in New York, 2002. As a GYCA National Focal point she joined the High-level sessions at the 2007 Internationla AIDS conference in Toronto. Recent/ongoing activities include support to the development and the implementation of a successful proposal to GFATM for Macedonia and National Strathegic Plan on HIV/AIDS (2007-2011), participation in a review of HIV/AIDS country analysis UN HIV/AIDS Team Group, UNICEF consultant on VCCT ofr young women and girls, compilation of a toolkit for work with peer educators, students and teachers etc. Formerly, as a member of the executive board of the oldest NGO in the country dealing with health issue, she provided strategic leadership to the more than 11 NGOs with primary focus on building their capacity on health and social communications in multicultural environment promoting HIV/AIDS prevention among MARA in R.Macedonia. As a Focal Point in Macedonia for Global Youth Coalition on AIDS she started the process of joined work and the collaboration between the private buissiness sector and the civic society on the health and social issues and has the responsibility for the coordination of in-country activities. She is currently the Regional Focal Point for South East Europe and Central Asia for the Global Youth Coalition on AIDS.

Health and Social Communications
 Trainer at the workshop “HIV/AIDS prevention of women within underprivileged communities” organized by the Fare Lien Programme, European Commission in Sofia. (2000);
 Local coordinator in "Rapid assessment of psychosocial condition and opportunities for socialization of handicapped people in Macedonia" (2002)
 Coordinator of "Right to know", project supported by UNICEF (2002/2003);
 Assistant coordinator of the project "Women's action for health promotion within underprivileged communities" international project with HESEF-Bulgaria, supported by Fare Lien Programme, European Commission (2000/2001)
 Coordinator of the GF program "Preventing HIV transmission among youth in Macedonia" (2004/2007);
 Manager of the project "HIV/AIDS prevention activities among Roma communities in R.Macedonia", implemented by MIA and supported by Parnership in Health and Swedish SIDA (2005/2006)
 Coordintaor of the Roma Primary Education Programme supported by SOROS-Macedonia

Publications
 Over 30 publications, particularly relating to social work, epidemiology and HIV/AIDS;
 Co-author of the Book "Social Inclusion of handicapped people in Macedonia";
 Co-author of the Book "AIDS in prison" (2005);
 Co-author of the Book "Patient Rights in Macedonia according to European standards" (2005);
 Co-author of the Manual for peer education in the Roma community (2005/ second edition 2006)
 Co-author of the Book "Teams, Communication, Conflicts and Campaigns" (2006)
 Co-author of the Book "Palliative care" (2006)
 Co-author of the Book "Manual for work with vulnerable groups" (2006)
 Co-author of the Book "Sexual and reproductive health in Roma community" (2006)
 Co-author of the Book "Peer education manual" (2006)

Leadership
• President of the Youth Selection of MIA-Macedonian Interethnic Association for Health Promotion and Education (2001/...)
• Main youth organzier of the WAD national celebration since 1997
• Youth represenative of the special session for Millenium Goals of R.Macedonia (2002)
• Representative of UNICEF office in Macedonia on United Nation General Assembly Special session on Children, New York (2002)
• Member of the MIA research team related to "Patients Rights in Macedonia" (2004/2005)
• Focal point of Global Youth Coalition on AIDS in Macedonia (2006/07)
• GYCA Regional Focal Point for South East Europe and Cantral Asia (2007/08)
• National represenative at the International AIDS conference-2006 in Toronto, Canada
• Paticipant at the High-level leadership meeting as one of 14 young world leaders at the International AIDS conference-2006 in Toronto, Canada as one of the 14 young international leaders
• UNICEF consultant on VCCT for young women and girls

Short-term assignments in University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; Budapest; Poland; Serbia; Bosnia; Croatia; Bulgaria etc.

Countries Visited

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