Romania
Fighting Disease
In 2007, the Carter Center's Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism, in partnership with the Center for Independent Journalism in Bucharest, began awarding two fellowships each year to journalists in Romania. The program was established in support of Romania's efforts to address public health and press freedom goals necessary for European Union membership, including improving the treatment of mental illnesses.
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QUICK FACTS: ROMANIA
Size: 238,391 square kilometers
Population: 22,181,287 (July 2010 est.)
Religions: Eastern Orthodox (including all subdenominations), 86.8 percent; Protestant (various denominations including Reformate and Pentecostal), 7.5 percent; Roman Catholic, 4.7 percent; other (mostly Muslim) and unspecified, 0.9 percent; none, 0.1percent
Life expectancy: 73 years
Languages:Romanian, 91 percent (official); Hungarian, 6.7 percent; Romany (Gypsy), 1.1 percent; other, 1.2 percent
Ethnic groups: Romanian, 89.5 percent; Hungarian, 6.6 percent; Roma, 2.5 percent; Ukrainian, 0.3 percent; German, 0.3 percent; Russian, 0.2 percent; Turkish, 0.2 percent; other, 0.4 percent
Population below poverty line: 25 percent
Literacy: 97.3 percent
(Source: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, World Factbook 2010)
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