Communicable disease prevention among Roma

A meeting on Communicable Disease Prevention among Roma  was convened by ECDC in Vienna on 27–29 November 2011. Its principal objectives included sharing best practices and lessons learned in improving the Roma population’s access to public health programmes and provide a forum for discussion on how the identified  experiences could be used, in particular to stimulate the use of preventive services in the area of communicable diseases, including vaccination uptake.This report summarises the main discussion points, conclusions and recommendations from the meeting.