This report documents discussions at a regional review meeting held in April 2013, eight months after the start of the 2012 Health Literacy (HL) Programme in Uganda and Zambia. The meeting reported on and reviewed the programme to date and identified progress markers for the outcomes, and identify issues to address, as well as develop future actions for HL in the year ahead. Participatory sessions covered a range of themes, such as to review a protocol for the participatory work for health literacy on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and to review and plan the next phase of work.
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Report of the regional review meeting of the health literacy programme, Harare, Zimbabwe, 12–13 April 2013
TARSC, HEPS Uganda and LDHMT Zambia, in EQUINET: April 2013
Report of the regional review meeting: Promoting health in trade agreements
Johannesburg, 29 October 2005
The workshop aimed to review the work and research papers of the capacity building programme implemented in Tanzania and Zimbabwe to date. The purpose of the workshop was thus to review the training, findings and programme in order to identify issues arising for policy support, future capacity building, extension to other countries in the region and to strengthen linkages with other work on trade and health.
Report of the session at Forum 2012 on “Bringing evidence on equity to health policy in Africa: Experiences of the Equity Watch”
EQUINET, ECSA HC and IDRC: 2012
Convened by EQUINET, in association with the ECSA Health Community and IDRC Canada, this session presented evidence and experience from work carried out in 2010-2012 in five countries and at regional level in East and Southern Africa to assess progress in key areas of equity in health outcomes, in social determinants of health and in redistributive health systems. The session reviewed the learning from the work, particularly in relation to monitoring policy commitments to equity in health, and discuss the opportunities and the challenges for institutionalising and using equity analysis within health policy and planning. This report summarises the presentations and issues raised at the session.
Report on a training workshop: Promoting health in trade agreements, 12 to 13 June 2006, Lilongwe, Malawi
Malawi Health Equity Network, Centre for Health Policy, SEATINI, EQUINET
The workshop on Protecting Health in Trade Agreements held in Malawi in June 2006 aimed to build capacities in state, legislative and civil society institutions to understand, analyse and promote public sector equity-oriented health systems within trade and investment policies and agreements. The course aim to enable participants to carry out assessments nationally of the key trade and investment agreements that impact on health and to identify options for promoting public sector equity-oriented health systems within current trade and investment policies and agreements.
Research on global health diplomacy in east and southern Africa
In 2012 EQUINET is initiating a three-year policy research programme to implement case study research on global health diplomacy in east and southern Africa (ESA). Working with government officials in health and diplomacy, with technical institutions, civil society and other stakeholders in ESA countries, we will examine the role of health diplomacy in addressing selected challenges to health and equitable health systems and use the learning and evidence to inform African policy actors and stakeholders. We will feed into regional processes, including the Strategic Initiative of Global Health Diplomacy co-ordinated by the East Central and Southern Africa Health Community. A review meeting on the case study design is being held in Johannesburg, South Africa on June 4-5 2012.
Resoluções Para Acção: Recuperar os Recursos para Saúde
EQUINET: September 2009
EQUINET September 2009 Conference Resolutions translated into Portuguese: Mais de 200 oficiais de governo, membros de parlamento, membros de sociedade civil, trabalhadores de saúde, pesquisadores, acadêmicos, e executores de política assim como pessoal das Nações Unidas, e organizações internacionais bem como não governamentais de Africa Oriental e Austral, encontraram na terceira conferência regional da EQUINET sobre Equidade em Saúde em África, realizado entre 23-25 setembro 2009, em Munyonyo, Kampala.
Resolutions for Action: The Third EQUINET Regional Conference on Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa
EQUINET: September 2009
Over 200 government officials, parliamentarians, civil society members, health workers, researchers, academics and policy makers, as well as personnel from United Nations, international and non-governmental organisations from East and Southern Africa and internationally met at the Third EQUINET Regional Conference on Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa, held 23–25 September 2009 in Munyonyo, Kampala. This document presents the resolutions of the conference for action on equity in health.
Resolutions of the Health Civil Society in Southern and East Africa meeting, 13 October 2005
Health civil society groups in Zimbabwe and east and southern Africa, met on 13 October 2005 to discuss struggles for health and agreed on the resolutions available through clicking on the web link provided, to be presented at the Southern African Social Forum on 14 October 2005.
Resolutions of the June Equinet conference
Third Southern African conference on Equity in Health
Noting:
The 1997 Kasane meeting on Equity in Health that confirmed the commitment to equity in health at all levels in southern Africa; the 1999 Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Health, the 2003 Maseru Declaration on HIV and AIDS and the resolutions of the SADC Heads of States Summit on food security held in Tanzania, 2004... To read more, please visit the Equinet website.
Resolutions: Regional Meeting of Parliamentary Committees on Health in East and Southern Africa: Health Equity and Primary Health Care: Responding to the Challenges and Opportunities: Munyonyo, Uganda, 16-18 September 2008
Southern and East African Parliamentary Alliance of Committees on Health (SEAPACOH), PPD ARO, EQUINET, APHRC, UNFPA, Venture Strategies for Health and Development, DSW
The Regional Meeting of Parliamentary Committees on Health in East and Southern Africa on Health Equity and Primary Health Care: Responding to the Challenges and Opportunities, Munyonyo Uganda September 16-18 2008, gathered members of parliamentary committees responsible for health from twelve countries in East and Southern Africa, with sixteen technical, government and civil society and regional partners to promote information exchange, facilitate policy dialogue and identify key areas of follow up action to advance health equity and sexual and reproductive health in the region. This document presents the resolutions of the meeting,and the immediate and long term commitments made by the parliamentarians and their partners towards advancing health equity and Primary Health Care in the region.