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Equity and health

 

Gender and Health Equity Network

The Gender and Health Equity Network is a partnership of national and international institutions concerned with developing and implementing policies to improve gender and health equity, particularly in resource constrained environments.

 

The Global Equity Gauge Alliance

The Global Equity Gauge Alliance was created to participate in and support an active approach to monitoring health inequalities and promoting equity within and between societies. The Alliance currently includes 11 member-teams, called Equity Gauges, located in 10 countries in the Americas, Africa and Asia.

 

IDRC - Governance, Equity, and Health

GEH examines health systems through a governance lens and, conversely, uses health as an entrypoint to approach challenges of governance – how power is exercised, how decisions are taken, how citizens have their say.

 

Southern African Development Community

Website of the Southern African Development Community

 

People's Health Movement

The goal of the People’s Health Movement is to re-establish health and equitable development as top priorities in local, national and international policy-making, with comprehensive primary health care as the strategy to achieve these priorities.

 

The Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world.

 

Partners in Population and Development (Africa Regional office)

PPD ARO is a southern-led, southern-run intergovernmental organization that uses south to south model to achieve its Vision of “an African continent that meets its Reproductive Health needs promotes the Population and Development agenda and thereby addresses poverty, through South-South Cooperation”

Public-private mix

 

Public Private Partnerships to Promote Essential Health Care

Meeting the basic health needs of people requires a participative approach. Increasing awareness of good health practice is a key component of meeting basic health needs

Poverty and health

 

International Society for Equity in Health **New**

The purpose for which ISEqH is formed is to promote equity in health and health services internationally through education, research, publication, communication and charitable support.

Health equity in economic and trade policies

 

Health Economics Unit University of Cape Town

The Health Economics Unit works to improve the performance of health systems through informing health policy and enhancing technical and managerial capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its foundation is academic excellence in health economics and management.

Monitoring equity and research to policy

 

HealthRights Connection

The HealthRights Connection is a service of Physicians for Human Rights, providing information and reports from members of the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organizations and other colleagues of PHR. The materials listed on this website do not necessarily represent the views of PHR-USA.

 

AFRONETS

The electronic conference for the 'African Networks for Health Research & Development' (AFRO-NETS) was established in 1997 to facilitate exchange of information among different networks active in Health Research for Development in Anglophone Africa, and to facilitate collaboration in the fields of capacity building, planning, and research.

Governance and participation in health

 

The Community Working Group on Health

The Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) was formed in early 1998 to take up health issues of common concern. The approximately twenty-five organizations in the CWGH include national membership organizations that have branches across the country, whilst others have areas specific membership such (as the residents associations). The CWGH began in 1998 a programme of work to disseminate information to and organize civic group members in health. It has carried out various community meetings on health, discussed and prepared policy inputs on health issues and carried out advocacy on these issues.

 

HEPS-Uganda

HEPS-Uganda is a Health Consumers’ Organisation advocating for health rights and responsibilities. The organisation is a coalition of health consumers, health advocates, health practitioners, CSOs and CBOs. HEPS is concerned about bottlenecks that hinder access to quality healthcare for the majority of Ugandans. The position of the organisation is that more preventive and curative means are necessary and that they should be designed from a health consumer’s perspective.

 

Coalition for Health Promotion and social Development Uganda **New**

HEPS-Uganda is a Health Consumers’ Organisation advocating for health rights and responsibilities. The organisation is a coalition of health consumers, health advocates, health practitioners, CSOs and CBOs. HEPS is concerned about bottlenecks that hinder access to quality healthcare for the majority of Ugandans. The position of the organisation is that more preventive and curative means are necessary and that they should be designed from a health consumer’s perspective.

Values, Policies and rights

 

Center for Health Human Rights & Development **New**

CEHURD focuses its efforts on critical issues of human rights and health systems in East Africa such as sexual and reproductive health rights, trade and health, and medical ethics which affect the vulnerable and less-advantaged populations such as women, children, orphans, sexual minorities, people living with HIV/AIDS, persons with disabilities, internally-displaced persons, refugee populations and victims of violence, torture, disasters and conflict.

 

Novartis Foundation **New**

Novartis aim to improve the quality of life for poor people in developing countries by improving access to healthcare through development projects, think tank efforts and dialogue facilitation.

General

 

TARSC

TARSC provides training, information, research and capacity support on areas of public health, social policy, food security, social protection, social and economic rights, reproductive, gender and child rights and on civic-state relations. TARSC works mainly in southern Africa and networks with non government, government and academic organisations.

 

Fahamu; Learning for change

Fahamu uses information and communication technologies to serve the needs of organisations and social movements that aspire to progressive social change and that promote and protect human rights

 

OXFAM GB

Oxfam GB is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation dedicated to finding lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world.

 

SHARED; Scientists for Health and Research for Development

SHARED's objective is to share essential information on health research and development for developing countries.

 

Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation was established in 1962 in memory of the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. It is based in Uppsala, Sweden. Its purpose is to organise seminars, conferences, work-shops and consultations on development issues and to publish and disseminate the results. The Foundation is an autonomous institution, which is not grant-making but carries out its own work programmes.

 

SADC Parliamentary Forum

The SADC Parliamentary Forum is a regional organisation that brings together 12 parliaments of the southern Africa region and represents 1800 Members of Parliament. Among the Forum's critical issues of concern in the 21st century is the support of the growing democracy in the region. The forum is motivated by the fact that for many years, the peoples of the region have fought and struggled for democracy and human rights, against forces, institutions and socio-economic and political bodies that limited or completely deprived them of democracy, human rights, and civil liberties.

 

East Central and Southern African Health Community (ECSA-HC)

The ECSA-HC is a regional organization that fosters and encourages cooperation in health in East, Central and Southern Africa