Forum 2009: Innovating for the Health of All is this year’s milestone event in research and innovation for health. Organised by the Global Forum for Health Research, it will take place on 16–20 November 2009 in Havana, Cuba, at the invitation of the Ministry of Public Health. What exactly is innovation? How can decision-makers and practitioners work together to foster innovation for health and health equity? What can we learn from innovation policies and initiatives around the world? These questions will be answered in Forum 2009‘s interwoven discussions of social innovation and technological innovation. This event will bring together some 800 leaders and experts from around the world to share ideas and forge new partnerships. It will include a unique mix of stakeholders from health and science ministries, research agencies and institutions, development agencies, foundations, non-governmental organisations, civil society, the private sector and media.
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The Global Forum for Research and Innovation for Health is the successor of the Global Forum for Health Research that merged with the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) in 2011. Forum 2015, as it will be abbreviated, will provide an opportunity for everyone interested in pursuing global health, equity and development to meet, exchange information, find partners, design solutions and set research and innovation agendas - nationally, regionally and globally.
The East, Central and Southern African Health Community, in collaboration with USAID-EA, are organising a Forum on Private Sector Response for Reproductive Health and Family Planning to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, July 21–24 2009. The broad objective of the forum is to strengthen the contribution of the private sector in reproductive health and family planning services, education and research. More specifically, it aims to explore ways of increasing the private sector contribution to public health agenda for reproductive health and family planning, build consensus on mechanisms and areas of public subsidy to the private sector to enhance reproductive health and family planning service provision, identify and discuss how to manage policy, technical and regulatory constraints to involving private sector in health initiatives, and share best practices in private sector response to reproductive health and family planning issues.
The 14th Annual Conference on Rural Health will be held from 26–28 August 2010 in Swaziland. Plenary sessions will focus on creative ways of funding health care and personal accounts of having made a difference. The Skills Training Programme includes treating Kaposi Sarcoma at a rural hospital, managing snakebites, new developments in mental health care and developing a decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis programme. The Scientific Programme will provide a platform where delegates can present their achievements. Five oral presentations or posters grouped around a similar theme will be discussed during the sessions, with time for participation. The Medical Training Track will be relevant to student participants, as it includes in-depth discussions of medical training needs. A debate will be held on the issue of mid-level health workers, with experts from Mozambique, Botswana, Malawi and South Africa outlining advances made in these countries. The traditional Focus on Advocacy Track is expected to be vigorous, given the participation of the new Rural Health Advocacy Project. For the first time there will be a track dedicated entirely to debating policy issues and formulating resolutions. Health care professionals who are interested in rehabilitation will be able to attend multi-disciplinary sessions.
The overall theme of this conference is “The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Grand Convergence and Health in Africa”. This theme recognizes the new international health economics and policy landscape with the end of the MDGs and the adoption in September 2015 of the successor SDG global initiative. It seeks to provide an African perspective and analysis of this emerging landscape and agenda. AfHEA will publish a policy paper on this new agenda and the perspectives after the conference. Visit the website for more details.
The Fourth Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights is part of a long-term process of building and fostering regional dialogue on sexual rights and health that leads to concrete action to influence policy particularly that of the African Union and its bodies. The purpose of the conference is to examine the interrelationship between sexuality and HIV and AIDS. In particular, it aims to open up discourse on sexuality in Africa and how this might lead to new insights in reducing the spread of HIV in Africa. The focus will be on identifying new and emerging vulnerabilities and vulnerable people using the concept of sexual rights and sexuality in the fight against HIV and AIDS. It will also explore how the application of human rights framework to sexuality might provide new insights in developing interventions to reduce the spread of HIV and map out new and innovative strategies, programming and funding best suited to deal with those most vulnerable to infection. The conference will provide a framework of how sexuality and the application of sexual rights may lead to openness, responsibility and choices for all people, particularly young people, on sex, sexuality and sexual behaviour.
The Fourth Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights is part of a long-term process of building and fostering regional dialogue on sexual rights and health that leads to concrete action to influence policy particularly that of the African Union and its bodies. The purpose of the conference is to examine the interrelationship between sexuality and HIV and AIDS. In particular, it aims to open up discourse on sexuality in Africa and how this might lead to new insights in reducing the spread of HIV in Africa. The focus will be on identifying new and emerging vulnerabilities and vulnerable people using the concept of sexual rights and sexuality in the fight against HIV and AIDS. It will also explore how the application of human rights framework to sexuality might provide new insights in developing interventions to reduce the spread of HIV and map out new and innovative strategies, programming and funding best suited to deal with those most vulnerable to infection. The conference will provide a framework of how sexuality and the application of sexual rights may lead to openness, responsibility and choices for all people, particularly young people, on sex, sexuality and sexual behaviour.
The Fourth Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights is part of a long-term process of building and fostering regional dialogue on sexual rights and health that leads to concrete action to influence policy particularly that of the African Union and its bodies. The purpose of the conference is to examine the interrelationship between sexuality and HIV and AIDS. In particular, it aims to open up discourse on sexuality in Africa and how this might lead to new insights in reducing the spread of HIV in Africa. The focus will be on identifying new and emerging vulnerabilities and vulnerable people using the concept of sexual rights and sexuality in the fight against HIV and AIDS. It will also explore how the application of human rights framework to sexuality might provide new insights in developing interventions to reduce the spread of HIV and map out new and innovative strategies, programming and funding best suited to deal with those most vulnerable to infection. The conference will provide a framework of how sexuality and the application of sexual rights may lead to openness, responsibility and choices for all people, particularly young people, on sex, sexuality and sexual behaviour.
The 4th Ethics, Human Rights and Medical Law Conference is a must attend event for healthcare professionals in South Africa and the surrounding region. A one-day conference that is fully dedicated to the above topics, it was created to demonstrate how important all three subjects are, as well as how they connect to one another.
The 4th Ethics, Human Rights and Medical Law Conference is a must attend event for healthcare professionals in South Africa and the surrounding region. A one-day conference that is fully dedicated to the above topics, it was created to demonstrate how important all three subjects are, as well as how they connect to one another.