CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The conference programme
Sessions and titles at the conference are shown below together with the workshop and session convenors. The full programme is shown here . final_conference_programme.pdf
PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS September 22nd 2009 0830-1730
Fair financing for health Convenor: D McIntyre, C Zikusooka
Policy Analysis Convenor: L Gilson
Participatory approaches to people centred health systems Convenors: R Loewenson, B Kaim, S Mbuyita
MAIN CONFERENCE September 23 830am - September 25 1pm 2009
September 23rd 2009
0940-1230
P1 OPENING PLENARY Victoria Ballroom
Opening speeches by ECSA HC
Official Opening by Minister of Health, Government of Uganda
Images of the region: Music and slide show
Opening papers:
Globalisation and women’s health:issues for health equity in east and southern Africa
Reclaiming the resources for health: advancing health equity in east and southern Africa
1415-1530
P2 PLENARY: EQUITY IN HEALTH AND HEALTH SYSTEMS Victoria Ballroom
Reclaiming the economic resources for health
Lessons and challenges for building health systems that promote equity in health
Struggling for the basis: View from the community (DRC) and health workers (Zambia)
1540-1730
Parallel 1 Claiming rights to health Victoria Ballroom
Globalisation and inequity: are human rights a solution
Realising the right to health by mothers in two districts of Uganda
Building an effective health consumer feedback mechanism
Operationalising the right to health through a learning network
Parallel 2 Equitable health services Regal Hall
Poverty and Strategies for Health Equity in Mozambique
Disparities in access to quality health care in Uganda
Determinants of health care utlisation in Uganda
Access to familiy planning among poor people: what are the options
Primary eye care and cataract surgeons to make services more effective
Lessons from monitoring medicine prices and affordability
Proposals for action on the social determinants of health through Primary Health Care Reforms
Parallel 3 Globalisation and womens health Meera Hall
Nutrition and health care in urban women in Kenya
Globalisation, food security and women farmers in Uganda
Export Processing Zone employment and womens diets in Tanzania
Parallel 4 Social empowerment in health systems Majestic Hall
Promoting Maternal Health using participatory approaches in Uganda
Effectiveness of use of the child health card by communities and health workers in Ntungamo district Uganda
Strengthening health facility management committees in Kenya
Consolidating partnership processes in Zambia
The gap between policy and practice: Community Health Committees in Nelson Mandela Bay
Community health committees as a vehicle for participation in South Africa
DAY ENDS, PHOTO EXHIBIT, SOCIAL TIME
September 24TH 2009
900-1030
P3 PLENARY: VALUING HEALTH WORKERS AND FAIRLY RESOURCING HEALTH SYSTEMS Victoria Ballroom
Reclaiming financial resources for public sector health services
Retaining health workers in east and southern African health systems: Lessons from a Regional programme
Equity in accessing AIDS treatment resources:experiences from Malawi
1100-1300
Parallel 5 Fairly resourcing health systems Victoria Ballroom
Assessment of health care financing in Uganda: Equity issues
Impact of removing user fees in Zambia
Introducing direct funding for rural facilities
Private capital flows in healthin east and southern Africa
Private spending in health and implications for equitable access in South Africa
Lost resources: Factors affecting expiry of medicines in Uganda
Parallel 6 Equity in health services responses to AIDS Regal Hall
Nation wide approaches and women specific responses to SRHR in a time of AIDS:a Gender analysis
PMTCT in policy context: policy analysis,lessons and strategies for addressing gaps
Can healers help increase ART coverage in Uganda?
Inequalities in access to ART in Malawi
Equity and access to ART in post conflict Cote D'Ivoire
The AIDS response and health systems in Uganda
Access to ART and PEP in health workers in Malawi
Strengthening CHWs in a crisis: the case of home based care poviders in Malawi
Parallel 7 Participatory, PHC approaches to health priorities Meera Hall
Challenges facing poor women living with HIV on treatment in Kenya
Community mobilisation to improve management and adherence to ART in people with harmful alcohol abuse in Kariobangi, Kenya
Participatory approaches to enhancing uptake of PPTC in rural Uganda
Peer education to promote Ugandan students’ sexual health
Civic education of rural pregnant women for improved uptake of nevaripine
Building networks of support for orphans and vulnerable children in Malawi
Children and community roles in social and health care support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Zimbabwe
Parallel 8 Valuing and retaining health workers Majestic Hall
Incentives for health worker retention in Tanzania
Incentives for health worker retention in Zimbabwe
Incentives for health worker retention in Kenya
A review of the impact of AIDS programmes on health worker retention
Strategies to retain health workers in Nigeria
MCH policies in Malawi: lessons and retention strategies to ensure an effective workforce
Future intentions of medical students in Malawi
Costs of health worker migration to training in health systems
1430-1530
P4 PLENARY: BUILDING PARLIAMENTARY ALLIANCES AND PEOPLE'S POWER IN HEALTH Victoria Ballroom
Introduction: Leadership in health
Experiences and lessons from parliamentary roles and alliances in health
Experiences and Lessons on empowerment from Participatory methods
Health civil society experiences in building peoples power for health:lessons learned
1540-1700
Parallel 9 Policy engagement for health equity Victoria Ballroom
Exploring power in the implementation of South Africa's new Community Health Worker Strategy
Mobilising human resources for eye health in Zambia
Exit Voice and Loyalty in the South African Public health sector
The history and gains of the Uganda Parliamentary standing committee on AIDS
Developing Public communicarions strategies for health policy awareness
Leveraging opportunities for health equity in Kenya
Parallel 10 Trade, technology and health Regal Hall
The Kenya Counterfeit Act 2008: limiting access to health care or protecting intellectual property?
In defense of national interests Consumer participation in IPR reforms
Addressing real health needs: Monitoring the Global Strategy and Plan of Action for Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property in Africa (GSPA)
BANG (Bits Atoms Neurons Genes): New technologies & health
Parallel 11 Access to health care: addressing barriers in vulnerable groups Meera Hall
Access to HIVand AIDS services for Commercial Sex worlers in Lilongwe Malawi
HIV risk and access to health care in men who have sex with men in Malawi, Namibia and Botswana
Bridging the gap in medical care for people with disability
Empowering communities in Kenya to abandom Female Genital Mutilation
Parallel 12 "Eye on Equity" approaches to keeping a watch on equity Majestic Hall
Introduction on equity monitoring
Outline of the equity watches and report on the content and processes to date
Review of experiences in equity monitoring at district level using DHS sites
Walk through the Eye on Equity exhibition
Discussion on options for communicating the equity watch
Parallel 13 A dialogue on research on private capital flows in the health sector Regal Hall
Parallel 14 Roundtable discussion on research on health worker migration Meera Hall
DAY ENDS, PHOTO EXHIBIT, EVENING EVENT
September 25th 2009
0915-1100
P5 PLENARY: COUNTRY ALLIANCES AND REGIONAL NETWORKING Victoria Ballroom
Experuences of country networking on health equity:
Malawi Health Equity Network
Uganda Health Equity Network
Kenya Health Equity Network
Networking in Zimbabwe and CWGH
EQUINETs organisation and mission into the future
Presentation of the draft resolutions from the conference
1130-1230
P6 CLOSING PLENARY Victoria Ballroom
Resolutions, next steps, and taking up the resolutions
Closing reflections from delegates
Collage of images from the conference
Closing remarks on behalf of the LOC and the conference
During the conference we displayed the "Eye on Equity" exhibit of community photgraphy from seven countries in east and southern Africa with photographers present to discuss their work. We also displayed EQUINET materials, of books on health and on the 24th September a display of Uganda craft.
POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS September 26th 2009 0830-1730
Writing skills workshop Covenor R Pointer
BANG - the next technological challenge to Africa's Health and wellbeing workshop
Covenor M Kane, KJ Wetter
Participatory Methods for adolescent health Covenor S Dhlomo, B Kaim Regional workshop on health literacy September 26th and 27th Covenor F Machingura
PRE AND POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Workshops held at the EQUINET conference
A number of workshops were held at the EQUINET conference. Separate reports have been produced and we provide a link to the report on the information below.
BANG – the Next Technological Challenge to Africa’s Health and Well-being
Convener: ETC Group September 26th 2009
For further information on the issues, please visit at the ETC group website: www.etcgroup.org
Parliamentary Alliances In Health
Convener: PPD ARO, EQUINET, APHRC and SEAPACOH September 21st 2009
The report is available at http://www.equinetafrica.org/bibl/docs/SEAPACOHRep%20Sep09.pdf
Health Policy analysis
Convener: UCT and CHP September 22nd 2009
The report is available at http://www.equinetafrica.org/bibl/docs/REPpolicy220909.pdf
Participatory Approaches to Primary Health care
Convener: TARSC and Ifakara September 22nd 2009
The report is available at http://www.equinetafrica.org/bibl/docs/PRA%20mtg%20rep%20Sep09.pdf
Health Financing
Convener: UCT and HNC September 22nd 2009
The report is available at http://www.equinetafrica.org/bibl/docs/REPfinSEP09.pdf
Writing skills
Convener: TARSC September 26th 2009
The report is available at ]http://www.equinetafrica.org/bibl/docs/REPwriting260909.pdf
Regional Health Literacy Review meeting
Convener: TARSC with CWGH, MHEN BONELA and BFTU September 26th and 27th 2009
The report is available at http://www.tarsc.org/publications/documents/HLregional%20meeting09.pdf
Participatory Methods For Adolescent Health
Convener: TARSC September 26th 2009
SOCIAL PROGRAMME