Welcome to In Conversation, the regular podcast of InCompass.

Go to InCompass-Hevon Europe.com for free access to all our podcasts to date.

This is Paul Adamson and this podcast is the first in a series I'm conducting with nobody

left outside,

NLO for short. The NLO is a collective of organizations representing people in some of the

most marginalized communities in Europe, including homeless people, LGTBI people, people who

use drugs, prisoners, sex workers and undocumented migrants. People in these groups are known to be

at greater risk of poor health, while at the same time facing many barriers in accessing healthcare.

The COVID-19 crisis has brought into sharp focus, the stark inequalities in access to health

and social services for marginalised people who often exist outside formal health care and social support systems.

While COVID-19 has affected the entire population, marginalized communities have faced particular

challenges requiring specific policy responses. But the pandemic has created a critical momentum

for supporting a greater role for the EU in public health and health system preparedness,

pushing these issues very firmly to the top of the political agenda.

With this podcast series, we would like to build on this momentum,

casting a spotlight on the situation of marginalized people in Europe during the NLO week

to create time and space for representatives of these communities

to share their first-hand experience, challenges and potential solutions.

The NLO initiative as a whole, N2020, and this podcast series

have been initiated and are supported financially by MSD,

so the views expressed in this podcast are those of the invited guests

and are not necessarily those of MSD.

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