CHP is a publication of the People's Health Movement, South Africa (South Africa). It is produced with the aim of offering an alternative, "peoples health" perspective and stimulating debate on critical issues related to health and health care in South Africa and elsewhere. CHP is produced once a month and distributed electronically with a distribution list of around 500 people. It is also distributed to a number of email lists. The distribution list consist of professionals interested in health care issues, staff in NGO's, trade union membership, media, government officials, activists.
Jobs and Announcements
Call for Proposals for the Collaborative Fund for HIV/AIDS
The Collaborative Fund for HIV/AIDS Treatment Preparedness in Southern Africa calls for submissions from organisations seeking funding for community-based HIV treatments advocacy and education programs. Grants will be allocated to successful applications for a period of up to one year to a maximum amount of 10,000 US dollars per application.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30986
Defend people's right to water!
Please join the People's Health Movement and other organizations in working toward a water-secure future by signing the People's Statement on the Right to Water. Your organization's endorsement will help demonstrate support to establish access to safe, sufficient and affordable water as an international human right. It will also show the breadth of opposition to the commodification of water.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30988
Life and Death in the Age of HIV/AIDS: Southern Africa's Epidemic in Comparative Perspective
The Southern African Research Centre (SARC) at Queen's University and the Department of History and the Library at the University of South Africa (UNISA) are planning two conferences on this subject during 2006. The first will take place at SARC in Kingston, Canada on May 7-10, with a focus on 'Public Health and the Representation of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic'. The UNISA gathering at the University's Sunnyside campus in Pretoria on August 14-16 will address a related but distinct set of issues: 'HIV/AIDS in Social Context: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives'.
Further details: /newsletter/id/31014
People's Health Assembly 2
Together, let us build a healthy world! The Second Peoples Health Assembly will be the culmination of a process of local and national reflections, discussions and debates, and of the exchange of experiences of communities and networks the world over. National and regional conferences and workshops centered around all aspects that influence the health and well being of the marginalized will be held in preparation of PHA 2. At the same time, there will be a mobilization of campaigns to help join together organizations and groups of people around the call for Health for All Now, No to War and no to the WTO.
Private Health Insurance and Social Health Insurance
An international short course
The World Health Organization in December 2004 urged all member countries to consider mechanisms for pooling financing for healthcare, including Social Health Insurance, in order to achieve universal coverage. The Health Economics Unit at the University of Cape Town offers a 5-day short course addressing the changing role of health insurance in low and middle income countries. The course focuses on the financial management of risk pools in diverse settings covering a broad spectrum of insurance arrangements including community-based health insurance, private voluntary insurance for the formal sector and social or national health insurance.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30989
Strategic Research Grants, Third Round 2005
Effects of Global Health Initiatives on Health Systems Development
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research is collaborating with the Systemwide Effects of the Fund (SWEF) Research Network in a process based on a competitive Call for Proposals to support research to assess the effects of global health initiatives on the health systems in recipient countries. This collaboration aims to support research to measure the systemwide effects of global health initiatives - such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GF), the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the World Bank Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP), and others - on broader health systems in low-income countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Tanzania: Head of Project HIV/AIDS Campaign
BBC World Service Trust
The Head of Project will assume overall responsibility for delivering a major mass media project to address HIV/AIDS in Tanzania. The project will meet agreed targets and objectives, and be delivered on time and on budget. The role will include management of an in-country production team and project office, ensuring the quality and cohesion of media outputs, establishing and managing effective partnerships with local media, government, NGOs and other key stakeholders.
Challenges in Reforming the Health Sector in Africa: Reforming Health Systems Under Economic Siege - The Zimbabwean Experience
Paulinus Lingani Ncube Sikosana
The book provides an insight and descriptive analyses of health sector reforms that are being implemented in African countries, with particular application to Zimbabwe. In some cases the Zimbabwean experience is blended with those of other countries in Africa. The book elaborates on the various elements of health sector reforms which include; health financing options, organizational restructuring, core health service packages, the introduction of market forces, hospital autonomy and the Sector Wide Approach to health development. These reform elements are described from a theoretical perspective; the rationale, implications, implementation modalities, their potential impact which the author provocatively links to the practical experiences of the selected country. The book highlights the fact that reforms in African countries have a different thrust to those in developing countries, though in both cases the ultimate objectives are the same.
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Africa: From Knowledge Sharing to Implementation
3 - 5 October 2005, Durban, South Africa
The European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) conference is an annual forum aimed at fostering closer collaboration and networking between European and sub-Saharan African partners involved in health research and capacity building in Africa, especially in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria clinical trials. The Forum also provides a platform for feedback on new developments in research in these fields, and several recognised international experts will deliver state-of-the-art presentations and facilitate workshops.