22 May 2006 the appraisals made by the experts, jury members, were analyzed and the results of the contest for the best coverage of healthcare reform in Ukraine and the EU Project Health Financing and Management in Ukraine in mass media were summed up.

Totally, there were 107 articles received from 29 authors from different regions of Ukraine.  Out of them there were 6 TV materials.

 After summing up the results of the contest, members of the Organization Committee decided to award winners of the journalist contest announced by the EU Project «Health Financing and Management in Ukraine» together with its information partners UOCR, the EU Project «Support of the Development of Medical Standards», international NGO «Women Community», information department of the EC Delegation Representative Office, the Ministry of Health etc.

 There are no winners in Nominations 1, 3, 4,7 as there were no materials of the corresponding level submitted.

 Lyudmyla Natykach is awarded in the Nomination The Best Program, Series of Programs on Regional TV for a series of programs in the TV program Your Health (Vashe Zdorovya), Zhytomyr OSTRC.

 Tetyana Moyseyeva (pseudonym Kapusta) is awarded is the Nomination The Best Publication/ Series of Publications in Central Printed or Electronic Mass Media for the article Money doesn’t Matter. What Matters is Its Efficiency published in the newspaper Uryadovyi Kuryer (the Governmental Courier).

 Larysaa Vasylyeva, a journalist of the information-analytical weekly Vzglyad (Opinion), Kherson town, is awarded in the Nomination The Best Publication/ Series of Publications in Oblast Printed or Electronic Mass Media for the article Ukrainian Medicine is Treated According to European Prescriptions.

 Inna Pogorila is awarded in the Special Nomination for mass media from  pilot regions for the article To Choose a Doctor for Yourself? Zolochiv dwellers are not against… and the series of other articles published in the oblast newspaper Slobidskyi Kray (Slobidskyi Region), Kharkiv.

 Tamila Znaydyuk is awarded in the Special Nomination for mass media from  pilot regions for the series of articles published in  the rayon newspaper Peremoga (Victory), Popilnya village, Zhytomyr Oblast.

 Newspapers Vashe Zdorovya (Your Health), Pulse (Zhytomyr), the weekly Apteka (The Chemist’s), the journal Head Doctor (Dnipropetrovsk) and the journalist of the newspaper Pulse (Zhytomyr) Emma Budnyk, in particular, who wrote more than 20 articles, are awarded for systematic coverage of the healthcare reform and thorough support of the Project implementation in special medical editions.

 Winners of the contest will be invited to the final conference of the EU Project which will take place 29-30 June in Kiev and at which they will be awarded with valuable prizes.

 The organizational committee would like to thank all the participants who sent their materials to the contest.  Most of these materials deserve a high rank indeed. However, in any competition there is always a winner who is the strongest.  We wish you creative inspiration, success and victories in future professional competitions.