Equinet Africa

EQUINET, the Regional Network on Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa, is a network of professionals, civil society members, policy makers, state officials and others within the region who have come together as an equity catalyst, to promote and realise shared values of equity and social justice in health.

EQUINET gathers people to overcome isolation, give voice and promote networking using bottom-up approaches built on shared values. We have come together in a spirit of self determination and collective self reliance working through existing government, civil society, research and other mechanisms and institutions in East and Southern Africa.

EQUINET is building a forum for dialogue, learning, sharing of information and experience and critical analysis. We do this to build knowledge and perspectives, shape effective strategies, strengthen our voice nationally, regionally and globally and to buiild strategic alliances to influence policy, politics and practice towards health equity and social justice.

EQUINET's work covers a wide range of areas identified as priorities for health equity, within the political economy of health, health services and inputs to health, covered in the theme areas shown on this site. EQUINET is governed by a steering committee with representatives from institutions in the region, has leads co-ordinating major areas of work and a secretariat at the Training and Research Support Centre Zimbabwe.

In 2022 our EQUINET Conference and various steering committee meetings have identified key areas of work on health equity within our three strategic areas - Reclaiming the resources; Reclaiming the state; Reclaiming collective agency and solidarity. We are building on past work and alliances, renewing network leadership and developing a programe of research, work, dialogue, and engagement to put the resolutions of our Conference into action.  To give time for this we will not have the quarterly newsletter in March 1 2023. Watch out for our next newsletter on June 1 2023- it will be a bumper issue! 


Meetings

EQUINET REGIONAL MEETING MARCH 2023 - Expanding promising practice on urban health and wellbeing

EQUINET is hosting a regional meeting in Nairobi Kenya on March 15 and 16 on Expanding promising practice for sustained urban and periurban wellbeing in east and southern Africa. The meeting is gathering people from different sectors, local authorities, civil society and technical organisations working in various areas of urban health, as well as organisations working on climate justice, and on extractives as sites of peri-urban growth, to share and review evidence on practice features that could be scaled up across countries. The meeting will explore the implications for engaging on commercial practices and responses to climate change. The meeting will involve parallel sessions to build photojournalism skills to strengthen communication  of promising practice. Read more on EQUINET work on urban health this site.

EQUINET CONFERENCE 2022 - Watch key sessions and read the resolutions

In 2022 EQUINET hosted a regional conference under the overall theme "Catalysing change for health and social justice' . The conference was online, in three separate thematic days (already held) and a fourth half day held on 17 November on the future networking and organisation on health equity.  It was an exciting four days, with alot of evidence, ideas, experience from and exchanges within the region. Please select EQUINET CONFERENCE on the side tabs and visit the conference pages for more information, for the programmes, video recordings and  the resolutions adopted at the conference

Grants

Read the report on health-related food standards in east and southern Africa

An open grant call was used by EQUINET, in association with ECSA HC and MoHCC Zimbabwe to commission a desk review of the laws governing food standards in east and southern Africa. The report, produced by William Kasapila, Malawi is now available on the EQUINET website.  The report recommends with draft clauses areas for updating and improving legal standards in the region.

Watch this space for EQUINET grant calls in 2023

Working with partners in the region EQUINET will be making a number of open grant calls on key areas of work identified as priorities for our work in 2023-2025. Watch this space for further information.

Latest Equinet Publications

Advancing the right to health in east and southern Africa Regional workshop report, Garuga Country Lake Resort, Entebbe, 30 August 2017
CEHURD; EQUINET (2017 August)
Themes:
Values, policies and rights
Country
Uganda
URL: EQ CEHURD Reg Mtg Right to Health Aug2017.pdf
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EQUINET Policy brief 43: The role of an essential health benefit in health systems in east and southern Africa
EQUINET, TARSC, IHI (2018 May)
Themes:
Equity in health, Values, policies and rights, Equitable health services
Country
East and southern Africa region
URL: EQ policy brief 43 EHB 2018.pdf
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Responding to inequalities in health in urban areas in east and southern Africa: Brief 4: What did we learn from experiences and innovations in other countries to improve youth health and wellbeing? May 2018, TARSC, EQUINET,
Loewenson R; Masotya M; CFHD and Harare youth (2018 May)
Themes:
Equity in health, Health equity in economic and trade policies, Governance and participation in health
Country
East and southern Africa region
URL: Urban health Brief 4 May2018 lfs.pdf
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Responding to inequalities in health in urban areas in east and southern Africa: Brief 3: What do Harare urban youth say? May 2018, TARSC, CFHD EQUINET, Harare
TARSC; CFHD; Harare youth (2018 May)
Themes:
Equity in health, PAR work, Values, policies and rights, Governance and participation in health
Country
Zimbabwe
URL: Urban health Brief3 May2018 lfs.pdf
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Responding to inequalities in health in urban areas in east and southern Africa: Brief 2: What does the data tell us? May 2018, TARSC, EQUINET, Harare
Loewenson R; Masotya M (2018 May)
Themes:
Equity in health, Health equity in economic and trade policies, Poverty and health, Monitoring equity and research to policy
Country
East and southern Africa region
URL: Urban health brief 2 2018 lfs.pdf
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Responding to inequalities in health in urban areas in east and southern Africa: Brief 1: What does the literature tell us? May 2018, TARSC, EQUINET, Harare
Loewenson R; Masotya M (2018 May)
Themes:
Equity in health, Health equity in economic and trade policies, Poverty and health, Governance and participation in health
Country
East and southern Africa region
URL: Urban health Brief 1 May2018 lfs.pdf
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Mining and Public Health in Zambia Meeting report, 10 April 2018, Lusaka, Zambia
Ministry of Health Zambia; EQUINET (2018 April)
Themes:
Health equity in economic and trade policies
Country
Zambia
URL: Zambia mining and public health Mtg Rep April2018.pdf
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EQUINET discussion paper 113: The role of an essential health benefit in health systems in east and southern Africa: Learning from regional research’
Loewenson R; Mamdani M; Todd G; Kadowa I; Nswilla A; Kisanga O; Luwabelwa M; Banda P; Palale M; Magagula S (2018 February)
Themes:
Values, policies and rights, Equitable health services, Human resources for health, Public-private mix, Resource allocation and health financing, Governance and participation in health
Country
East and southern Africa region
URL: EQ Diss 113 EHB synthesis 2018.pdf
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Advancing public health rights, claims and standards in mining, Report of a Side Session at the Alternative Mining Indaba, 6 February 2018, Cape Town South Africa
EQUINET; TARSC; SATUCC; Benchmarks Foundation; SADC CNGO (2018 February)
Themes:
Health equity in economic and trade policies
Country
South Africa
URL: AMI side session on mining and health rep 2018.pdf
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The role of an essential health benefit in the delivery of integrated health services: Learning from practice in East and Southern Africa, Report of a regional research workshop, November 27-28 2017, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania.
EQUINET; Ifakara Health Institute; Training and Research Support Centre (2017 December)
Themes:
Equitable health services, Public-private mix, Resource allocation and health financing, Governance and participation in health
Country
East and southern Africa region
URL: EQ Regional EHB Mtg Rep Nov2017.pdf
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