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Afternoon workshop sessions

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TRACK ONE: EQUITY AND PEOPLE´S HEALTHCARE

I.1 STRATEGIZING FOR A GLOBAL RIGHT TO HEALTH INITIATIVE, FOCUSING ON THE RIGHT TO HEALTHCARE

Aula Magna of the Faculty of Law (A) and

Aula Magna of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education (B)

MONDAY, JULY 18

STRATEGIZING FOR A GLOBAL RIGHT TO HEALTH INITIATIVE, FOCUSING ON THE RIGHT TO HEALTHCARE

(Group discussions on Right to Health initiatives in various regions of the world, group discussion of international networks)

Facilitation Group

Abhay Shukla, India

Eugenio Villar Peru

Claudio Schuftan, Chile

WEMOS and World Council of Churches

Testimonies:

• Violation of human rights of the Andean peoples and the popular organization to overcome these violations; Razl Llaquiche, Ecuarunari, Ecuador
• Violation of the right to health care in the United States of America, Lori Smith, USA

Panel

• Conceptual framework of the Right to Health Campaign,  Claudio Schuftan, Vietnam
• Poverty reduction and the Right to Health: Eugenio Villar
• Proposed strategic framework for the Right to Healthcare Campaign,  Abhay Shukla, India
• Role of UN Special Rapporteur in contributing to a global Right to Health initiative: Judith Bueno de Mesquita (assistant to Paul Hunt, UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Health

TUESDAY, JULY 19

Workshop A.

PARTNERSHIPS AND PILLARS FOR HEALTH EQUITY.
Facilitation Group

GEGA, Qamar Mahmood Noluthando Ngomane, Liliana Jadue

A Multi-pronged Approach to Reducing Health Inequities

• The Global Equity Gauge Alliance (GEGA) approach to Health equity and three pillar strategy;
• Range of activities undertaken by GEGA and Equity gauges;
• Successful examples of country Gauge work;
• Health movements based on empowerment and equity. Susan Rifkin, UK.

BUILDING A ‘HEALTH WATCH’ MOVEMENT

Workshop B.

Facilitation Group:

Global Health Watch, UK 

Centro de Estudios y Asesoría en Salud, Ecuador

Introduction to the Global Health Watch, Patricia Morton, UK

Examples of regional and country health reports:

• Latin American Health Report, Jaime Briehl
• Review of Healthcare in India,  Abhay Shukla
• Latin American Report on the Right to Health, Mauricio Torres
• UK Health Watch, Patricia Morton

Strategies for the future and promotion of additional alternative reports on health

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

A CRITICAL VISION OF GLOBAL POLITICAL INITIATIVES.

Facilitator:  Fran Baum, Australia

• WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health;  David Legge, Australia
• WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health; Michael Marmot, UK
• The Millennium development goals: A response from the people’s perspective. Wim de Ceukelaire, Belgium

THURSDAY, JULY 21

GLOBAL PUBLIC-PRIVATE INITIATIVES IN HEALTH: RISKY REMEDIES FOR THE HEALTH OF THE POOR

Facilitators: Mwajuma S. Masaiganah, Tanzania, José Utrera, Netherlands, Emma Wanyonyi, Kenya

• Global Public Private Initiatives (GPPI) in health. The increasing influence of the corporate sector in international health, José Utrera, Netherlands
• Case study on Roll Back Malaria in Tanzania. Short introduction and presentation of the film “Roll Back Malaria in Tanzania, Good intentions with side effects”, Mwajuma S. Masaiganah, Tanzania
• Case study on Roll Back Malaria in Uganda. Ashraf Kasuija, Uganda
• Case studies on Global Alliance for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in Kenya and Karnataka, India. Sociodrama, Samuel Ochieng and Emma Wanyonyi, Kenya,  Naveen Thomas and Thelma Narayan, India
• Case study on Global Polio Elimination Initiative in West Bengal, Sociodrama, D. P. Poddar, India
• Recommendations and call for action , Mwajuma S. Masaiganah,Tanzania,  Samuel Ochieng, Kenya,  José Utrera, Netherlands

TRACK TWO: INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTER ON HEALTH

INTERCULTURAL WORKSHOPS

Auditorium of the Symphonic Orchestra of Cuenca

Central Bank of Ecuador

MONDAY JULY 18

TRADITIONAL MEDICINES AND HEALTH.

Facilitator:  Carlos Lix, Guatemala

Natural, traditional and bioenergetic practices; Martha Perez Viñas, Cuba

• Genetic patrimony and popular knowledge;  Victor Penchaszadeh, USA
• The Therapists in the Indigenous Mayan Medicine, Manuela Garcia, Guatemala
• The strategic plan of the Provincial Union of Cooperatives and Communities of Cañar from the framework of the indigenous cosmovision,
• Experiences from the Aboriginal communities of Australia and New Zealand 
• PAUHKA: Discussion of a culturally defined disease on the Caribbean  Coast of Nicaragua,  Serafina Espinoza Blanco,  Nicaragua
• Perspectives of the Pan American Health Organization, Dr. Rocio Rojas, PAHO
• Experiences from Asia  Smita Bajpai, PHM, India 

TUESDAY, JULY 19

NUTRITION, FOOD AND HEALTH

Facilitator:   Dr. Bolivar Quito

• Natural nutrition and nutritional plants;  Matias Son Tumax, Guatemala
• Nutrition in ancestral treatments. Franklin Columba
• Pilot project for food security for rural families in the locality of 20 Sumapz, Colombia,  Maria Consuelo Vergara.
• People's Action for Health & Food Security in rural Rajasthan, Narendra Gupta, India
• Tactics for the promotion and strengthening food sovereignty;
• Exchange of experiences and practices in the struggle against malnutrition;

Wednesday July 20 and Thursday July 21

HEALTH OF THE ECOSYSTEMS 

Facilitation Group:

Julio Monsalvo, Argentina

Sandra Isabel Payàn, Colombia

• Video:  The Green Secret, Health in the hands of the community, Caritas, Misiones, Argentina 
• Health of the ecosystems from a women’s perspective, Sandra Isabel Payán and women from the community of Aguablanca, Cali, Colombia
• Sustainable rural development,  Teodora Verón Gómez, Paraguay,
• Community based health with an ecosystem approach, Viviana González and the team of the Community Health Program, Formosa, Argentina.
• Ecological Sanitation: Experiences in México and  Mozambique – Video
• Presentation of a book,   Jeff Conant, Hesperian Foundation, USA.
• The network of the biodiversity permits us to root ourselves and grow,  Raquel Núñez,  Uruguay
• Open course on socio-environmental health (from the paradigm of complexity).  An experience of the National University of Rosario, Argentina. Damián Verzeñassi, Argentina.

LIVING EXAMPLES OF HEALTH BASED ON INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGES.

Auditorium of the Sub secretary of Education

Facilitator: 

Miltón Cáceres, Andean University

• Construction of the ritual altar kichwas de korikancha;
• Understanding and wisdom: planetary human patrimony;
• Search for and learning about intercultural understanding: the knowledge of health and medicine.
• Nutrition in ancestral treatments,  Franklin Columba

BIOENERGETIC MEDICINE: PRACTICES OF THE HOMA THERAPY.

Venue: “Kancha” of the Pumapungo Park

Daily workshops open to the general public from 17:30 to 19:30 hours Monday through Thursday.

Facilitation Group

Dr. Abel Hernández U.S.A.

Terapeuta Aleta Macan (Alemania-Austria)

• Group healing practices with Bioenergetics; AGIHOTRA
• Human health: psychotherapy, physical diseases, preparation of Homa medicine;
• Agriculture, effects in plants, insects, fertilizers, seed treatments;
• Livestock: effects in the feed, in livestock, treatment of plagues, production of milk;
• Ecology: purification of the atmosphere, the water sources, the soil, reestablishment of the bioenergetic harmonic cycle of the universe.

CIRCLE OF HARMONY

DIALOGUE ON KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES

FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Facilitator

Dr. Hari John,  India

Harmony is a holistic term and its synonyms such as concord, friendship, peace and unity do not really describe it well. It is best described as a state of peacefulness, of happiness, of friendship and togetherness.

Circle is not merely a ring or a sphere but means ‘to enclose’, hold in a relationship of togetherness and warmth. Therefore, we have chosen to call this coming together of inter-cultural health philosophies and practices as the Harmony Circle.

Indigenous societies and cultures have a tradition of holistic practices, caring, sharing and warmth. And upholding the needy within this circle and fulfilling their needs within their own resources and within the resources of their immediate environment.

We do not call this as complementary medicine or alternative medicine. At any given moment in time, there are by far much larger numbers of people the world over practicing and accessing traditional systems of medicine than ‘western medicine’.

Purpose:

• To celebrate the holistic nature of people’s science, knowledge systems and skills base
• To rekindle interest in indigenous systems of medicine of the indigenous peoples of the world.
• To expose participants of People’s Health Assembly 2 to the glorious traditions of indigenous systems of medicine so that this message could be carried to the far corners of the world to equip people to cope with the pressures of a globalized world.

HEALING PRACTICES

• Thai, Andean African and Chinese massage
• Bone-setting methods
• Traditional birth attendants: Andean, Mayan, Hindu and Philippine practitioners
• Acupuncture, acupressure and reflexology
• Ayurvedic treatment
• Mudras.
• Food as a medicine and the oriental way of looking at diet.
• Self  shiatsu.
• Pre-yoga or exercises for opening the chakras
• Laughter as meditation and Sen meditation
• Energy therapy

EXHIBITIONS

An array of exhibitions of healing remedies, herbs, seeds, and preparation of tinctures, ointments, and medicines.

CEREMONIES AND HEALING RITUALS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES

• Valakapopu of India; for the first pregnancy
• dhrisht: to treat evil eye when a child develops sudden high fever.

ENCOUNTER TO SHARE STORIES  

TRACK THREE: TRADE AND HEALTH

Aula Magna of the Faculty of Economics

MONDAY, JULY 18

PATIENTS OR PATENTS: FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS AND HEALTH

Facilitation Group:

Gilles de Wildt

Third World Network

• Access to medicines in Guatemala, Rafael Baldizón, Guatemala.

• What to do after the Indian Compromise. Local and global consequences; Amit Sen Gupta, India
• Patenting genes: a practice against ethics, science and equity; Víctor Penchaszadeh, USA
• Global health and patents: perspectives from WHO; Dr. German Velasquez, WHO
• Recent Developments Regarding Patents and Medicine and National Policies to Use Compulsory Licence,  Martin Khor, Malaysia 
• NGO Perspectives from Latin America.  .Gema Dominguez, Ecuador
• Changing global policies: Responsibilities in the North: Challenges and Opportunities. Gilles de Wildt, UK

TUESDAY, JULY 19

MOBILIZING FOR THE RIGHT TO HEALTH AND AGAINST PRIVATIZATION

Facilitation Group

Garance Upham, France, José Utrera, Netherlands

Cases from Latin America

• Introduction,  José Utrera, Netherlands
• Resistance to Privatization of public health services by trade unions and other civil society organizations in El Salvador.  Margarita Posada, El Salvador
• Testimony Resistance to privatization of health services at community level and consequences for the right to health of the women in the community Tacachico. El Salvador.  Community Health Worker
• The privatization of health and other public services in Bolivia. Tendencies, resistance and action by civil society organizations. Miguel Aiyllon, AIS Bolivia.
• The struggle against privatization, the case of Peru,  Octavio Rojas Caballero, Peru

Round table on Europe

• GATS in Europe and resistance to privatization by civil society organizations.
• With the Constitutional Treaty and the end of public services in Europe:  What they want to do and how we can resist.  Bernard Teper,  France
• European Network for the right to health, Carmen San José Perez,  Spain

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

MARKET FORCES AND ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL MEDICINES

Facilitator:

Christian Wagner,  BUKO Pharma-Kampagne, Germany

Testimonies

• Gonzalo Moyano, Argentina,
• Lenin Arauz,  COIME,  Nicaragua

Panel:

• Orphan drugs and neglected diseases; AIS Bolivia
• Poor choices for poor countries: German drug exports to Third World countries. Christian Wagner,  Germany
• The Indian perspective,  Amitava Guha, India
• Perspectives from the Pan American Health Organization,  Dr. Jorge Bermudez, PAHO

TRACK FOUR: HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

City Meeting Hall (A)

Auditorium of the Court of Justice (B)

Facilitation Group of the track

Acción Ecológico, Ecuador and Third World Network

MONDAY, JULY 18

Workshop A.

EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES AND HEALTH

Facilitator:  Ivonne Yánez, Peru

• Petroleum in Ecuador, Adolfo Maldonado, Ecuador
• Mining in the Philippines, Ana Marie R. Leung, Philippines
• Petroleum in Nigeria,  Nimmo Bassey, Nigeria
• Mining in Ecuador, Oscar Betancourt, Ecuador
• Health and petroleum,  Juan Almendáriz,  Honduras
• Transnationals and the case of the Island of Alcántara, San Luis Marañao, Brazil
• Transnational mining companies and the Indigenous peoples.  Eliseo Lix, Guatemala 

TUESDAY, JULY 19

Workshop A.

THE RIGHT TO WATER; A GLOBAL STRUGGLE TO ENSURE WATER FOR LIFE AND HEALTH

City Meeting Hall

Facilitator:  Cecilia Cherrez, Ecuador

• The geopolitics of water,  Andrés Barreda,  México
• Gender and water, Maria del Carmen Ledo García, Bolivia
• Campaign on the Right to Water, Anil Naidoo, Canada  and Jeff Connat, USA Globalization and privatization of water, Alex Zapatta, Ecuador
• Privatization of water by Coca Cola:  the case in India
• Climate Change, deforestation and health,  Ricardo Carrere, Uruguay

Workshop B

GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES.

Auditorium of the Court of Justice

Facilitator:  Elizabeth Bravo, Ecuador

• Nanotechnology - Silvia Ribero, México
• Transgenic vaccines, Lim Li Ching, Malaysia
• Pharmaceutical cultures and the impacts on health, Mae Wan Ho, UK
• Legal aspects, Lim Li Lin, Malaysia

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

MERCENARY EPIDEMIOLOGY VS RESPONSIBLE EPIDEMIOLOGY

City Meeting Hall

Facilitator:  Lim Li Ching, Malaysia

Introduction of the cases

•  The case against Texaco and medical studies,  Front for the Defence of the Amazon

• The case against the United States of America for the use of Agent Orange and its effects 30 years later, Representative of the Victims of Agent Orange,  Vietnam
• Los transnationals and the case of the island of Alcántara, San Luis Maranhao, Brazil

Discussion about the role of Mercenary Epidemiology vs. Responsible Epidemiology

• Perspectives from Ecuador,  Jaime Breihl, CEAS

• Initiatives in promoting ethical approaches,  Jeff Reading, Canada
• Perspective on global trends,  Jerry Spiegel, Canada
• The unholy alliance, Mae Wan Ho, UK

THURSDAY, JULY 21

Workshop A.

PESTICIDES AND TOXIC WASTES

Facilitator: Lim Li Lin, Malaysia

• Fumigations in Plan Colombia, Elsa Nivia, Colombia
• The impact of pesticides on health, Ma. Elena Rosas, Chile
• The legacy of the Green Revolution,  Romeo Quijano, Philippines
• Impacts of the toxics used in transgenic soy, Dario Roque Gianfelici, Uruguay
• The perspective of a Yaqui elder, Angel Valencia, Yaqui Nation

THURSDAY, JULY 21

Workshop B

SEEDS, A FUTURE UNDER THREAT

Auditorium of the Court of Justice

• Food sovereignty and seeds - Karin Nansen, Redes-Friends of the Earth, Latin America 
• Strategies of control and monopoly of seeds,   Silvia Ribeiro, Mexico  
• Experiences in the recuperation of seeds,  Pantaleaona Mesa, Paraguay.
• Transgenic seeds, Adolfo Boi, Argentina
• Experience in the recuperation of seeds,  Maria Helida Gañan, Grupo Semillas, Colombia.

TRACK FIVE: GENDER, WOMEN AND HEALTH SECTOR REFORM

GENDER, WOMEN AND HEALTH SECTOR REFORM.

AUDITORIUM OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF ECUADOR

Facilitation Group

WGNRR, ALAMES Gender Group, SAMA, RMSLAC

Coordinator in Ecuador: Maria Merchan

MONDAY, JULY 18

GLOBALIZATION, REFORM AND THE RIGHT TO HEALTH.

Testimonies:

• Conformation of Users Committees in Cuenca as a mechanism for participation in the Assembly.  SENDAS and CONFEMEC, Ecuador

Panelists:

• Globalization, health care financing and the rights of women: the invisible costs of illness; Deborah Tajer, Argentina
• The impact of Public Private Partnerships on the health of women; Mwajuma Masaignana, Tanzania
• The impact of health care reforms on the sexual and reproductive health and rights: a global perspective. Nadia van der Linde,  Netherlands
• The process of health sector reform in Ecuador and its impact on the health of women, Ninfa Leon, Ecuador

TUESDAY, JULY 19

WOMEN AND PUBLIC POLICIES

Testimonies:

• Experiences of self help of women and the influence in their empowerment,    Yolanda Arango,  Colombia

Panelists

• Women’s Sexual and Reproductive health and rights:  a report on progress of women with respect to Population and Development Conference (Cairo) and Women’s Conference (Beijing), Ana Maria Pizarro, Nicaragua
• Gender and public policies: advances and fallbacks in the Caribbean,   Leticia Artiles, Cuba.
• Fundamentalisms, militarism, and consumerism impacting on women’s health. Ayesha Mir, Pakistan
• The collective construction of social policies for women in the National Capital District of  Colombia, Maria Angélica Neira, Colombia

THURSAY, JULY 21

CAMPAIGN FOR WOMEN´S ACCESS TO HEALTH CAMPAIGN

Testimonies

• Experiences about the implementation of guidelines for sexual and reproductive health in Peru, Carmela Cheng, Peru.
• Woman! Take care of your breasts!, EPES, Chile

Panel

• Evaluation and proposals concerning the Campaign for gender and public policies for health of the WGNRR and PHM; Nadia van der Linde, Netherlands.
• The right to choice; strategies and alliances; Alberto Gonzalez, México
• Young peoples access to reproductive health services; Laura Villa,
• The role of women and institutions in women’s access to health: the Brazilian experience; Ana Maria Costa, Brazil 
• Abortion: an experience of citizen control of a silenced reality. Paula Santana, Chile
• Access to reproductive health services by young women, Laura Villa, Mexico
• The access to health and health care for women in India, Mira Shiva, India

TRACK SIX: TRAINING AND COMMUNICATING FOR HEALTH

TRAINING AND COMMUNICATION FOR HEALTH

Postgraduate Centre

Faculty of Medical Sciences

14:3 – 17:30

MONDAY JULY 18

TRAINING AND AN EDUCATIONAL STRATEGY FOR PHM.

Facilitator:  David Legge

 Case studies on Training of Activists for Health

• Training strategies: The South African Experience: David Sanders, South Africa
• The Community Health Fellowship of CHC,  Thelma Narayan, India
• A People oriented Health University, GK, Qasem Chowdhury
• URRACAN Community University and the formation of human resources in a multicultural context, Dr. Florence Levy, Health Unlimited, Nicaragua
• Liberation Medicine, Lanny Smith, USA

Panelists:

• Regional Capacity Building for PHM Activists  Prem John, India
• Transforming Public Health in Universities to respond Social Needs / Health for All Challenges., Dr. Maria Isabel Rodriguez, University of El Salvador.
• The IPHU: Framework and Challenge, David Legge, Australia

Respondents:

• Vice Chancellors / Deans of University / Heads of Training Centers/ students from courses etc who are delegates.

TUESDAY, JULY 20

ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN THE HEGEMONY OF THE CAPITALIST MEDICAL MODEL.

Facilitation Group:

Charles Briggs, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California.

Centro de Estudios y Asesoría en Salud – CEAS

• Toward a new theoretical and political basis for health and communication
• The role of dominant ideologies in the hegemony of health
• New theories of communication, ideologies of language and the public, and the transformation of perspectives and practices in health and communication.
• Neoliberalism, globalization, capital and other determinants in the inequities of health and communication.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19

COMMUNICATION CENTERED ON THE COMMUNITY

Facilitation Group: 

Nand Wadhwani, Costa Rica and PHM Media Team

Panel

• Health Communication - Does it Matter – An Overview of the PHM Communication Strategy,  Prasanna Saligrama, India
• Empowering the PHM – PHM Exchange, Claudio Schuftan, Vietnam
• Making the News: PHM Media Experience,   Unni / Satya, India
• Linking Activists globally: PHM Website Experience, PHM Website team
• Linking the Circles: PHM News brief experience, Prem John, India and Qasem Chowdhury, Bangladesh
• Building a strategy for communications of the PHM

ALTERNATIVE AND POPULAR COMMUNICATIONS:

A TOOL FOR A HEALTHIER WORLD

Auditorium B, Postgraduate Centre, Faculty of Medical Sciences

Facilitators:

FRECME

Monday July 18

• Alternative and community media. Lutbi Portillo and Zurisaday Cordero. Venezuela,
• Art and political commitment.  Juan Carlos Rodríguez and José Luis Omaña. Venezuela.

Tuesday, July 19

• Identity and Resistance in popular Cuban music. Alfredo Faya. Cuba.
• Communication from a Feminist perspective.  Sandra Isabel Payan. Colombia.

Wednesday, July 20

• The body as the first peaceful territory.  Maria del Rosario. Colombia. 
• Painting Bolivia. Rigoberto Hugo. Bolivia.

Thursday, July 21

• How to do caricatures without being an expert.   Ricardo Ferraz. Brasil.
• A case study on the use of community radio. CORAPE. Ecuador...

TRACK SEVEN: THE RIGHT TO HEALTH FOR ALL IN AN INCLUSIVE SOCIETY

Auditorium of the old Hospital of the Ecuadorean Institute of Social Security

MONDAY, JULY 18

REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS OF WARS, CONFLICTS AND SOCIONATURAL DISASTERS

Facilitation Group

PHM Disaster Circle

Judith Cook, Medact

• Health care and health rights of refugees and undocumented persons,  Médecins du Monde
• Plan Colombia: A history of disaster and displacement, Colombia
• Disaster responses in Ecuador, Guillermo Sempertagui, Ecuador
• Health and access to health care for refugees and asylum seekers in Europe: some responses in the UK,  Judith Cook, UK
• Tsunami response – Putting the people first,  Unnikrishnan P V, India
• The new solidarity: some critical remarks on the role of humanitarian aid today,  Thomas Gebauer,  Germany
• The people’s perceptions, Denis Darce, Nicaragua.

TUESDAY, JULY 19

THE BARRIERS SURROUNDING PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Facilitation Group: 

Garance Upham, France, Hashim Mannan, USA

Panelists

• Rehabilitation as part of primary health care services and access of disabled persons to health services,  Federico Montero, Costa Rica, WHO/Geneva
• “Bias Free” research – keeping in mind disability while planning research,  Garance Upham, France
• Disability as a key issue in debate on social determinants of health,  Hashim Manan, USA
• Barriers to right to health for disabled persons in a developing country,  Sam Kabue, Kenya
• Barriers of stigma and prejudice,  Martinho Nhanca, Guinea Bissau
• Testimony about persons with Downs syndrome,  Vicky Tamariz, Ecuador
• Disability and human rights in Palestine, Allam Jarar, Palestine.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

CLAIMING CITIZENSHIP AND OVERCOMING THE BARRIERS

Facilitation Group

Pam Zinkin, UK

Jorge Ipales, Ecuador

• Experiences of elderly persons, Pamela Zinkin, UK, Ricardo Rodríguez y  Dr. Viciente  Ruilova, Ecuador
• Experiences of Women with disability,  Anita Ghai, India
• Community based rehabilitation and gender,  Ghada Abdelnour, Palestine
• Experiences of Women from ethnic minority groups, Sharatiya Devi, Nepal
• Experiences of persons with mental illness.

Discussion and conclusions of both sessions.

TRACK EIGHT: HEALTH IN PEOPLE'S HANDS

MONDAY, JULY 18

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: THE ENGINE FOR STRUCTURAL CHANGES

Facilitator:

Wim De Ceukelaire, Belgium

Experiences, challenges and opportunities:

Participants:

• The experience of  the Association of Community Health Services, Hugo Icu , Guatemala
• A model for community health in an occupied country, Amal Daoud,  Palestine
• Community Health Workers of  Partners in Health
• Model of health of the Mayagna Indigenous People, auni As Territory, Bonanza, Nicaragua, Valeriano Flores, Nicaragua

TUESDAY, JULY 19

HEALTH OF THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF THE VALLEY OF CAUCA, COLOMBIA

• A proposal for a health system for indigenous peoples of Columbia,  Health Program ACIN IPSI of the Association of Indigenous Communities of the North of Cauca.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

EXERIENCES IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.

Facilitator

Marcela Bobatto. Argentina

• Family and community health. Peasant Social Security, Ecuador;
• Commercialization: basic packages for health. Popular social security schemes.
• Reorienting primary health care to the community:  lessons from New Zealand,  Kumanan Rasanathan, New Zealand

• System of information and epidemiological vigilance in the community, (SIG-SIVEC): the case of Pedro Moncayo, Ecuador

THURSDAY, JULY 21

PUBLIC HEALTH:  REINSERTING THE PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC

Facilitation Group:

Charles Briggs, Professor Universidad de California y Director CILAS

Jaime Breilh Director of CEAS

Eduardo Menendez, Institute de Anthropology de Mexico

• Rethinking the ¨public” of public health
• Neoliberalism, structural violence and
• An epidemic of inequality in Latin America

“Emerging voices in the construction of health:  the case of Venezuela

“Human rights, art and the community ”

Faculty of Medical Sciences

Auditorium

14h30 - 17h30 

MONDAY, JULY 18

PROMOTION OF HEALTH AS A HUMAN RIGHT

TUESDAY, JULY 19

PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROCESSES FOR HEALTH.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS; HEALTH SEEN FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF CHILDREN

ALCUEHEALTH PROJECT: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING

Faculty of Medical Sciences

School of Medicine

Audiovisual Room

Sunday, July 17 – Wednesday July 20

The primary purpose of this meeting is to increase sharing and build relationships between institutions, decision-makers and civil society organizations in Europe and Latin America.  At the Executive Committee meeting, the members shall discuss the following, among other issues:

Workshop 1: Brazil.  Leaders: J.R. Coura and Y. Tselendis

“Emerging and Forgotten Infectious Diseases”

“Surveillance and Evidence Based Information for the Policy-Making Process”

Workshop 2: Mexico.  Leaders: G. Fabba Beaumont and F. Barten

“Family Health as an Approach to Strengthening the Primary Health Care Strategy”

“Improving Health Systems Performance through Education and Research Strategies”

Workshop 3: Bolivia/Argentina.  Leaders: F. Barten and A. Hardoy (proposed, subject to change)

“Effective Strategies for Increasing Coverage for Potable Water and Basic Sanitation”

Workshop 4: Lisbon.  Leaders: V. do Rosario and Management Cie.

“Consensus-Based Actions for Strengthening Health Skills and Promotion”

TRACK NINE: SPECIAL WORKSHOPS OF THE PHM

Postgraduate Centre, Faculty of Economics

BUILDING THE PEOPLE´S HEALTH MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD

PHM REGIONAL AND COUNTRY MEETINGS.

Each day there will be time and space allotted for discussion of PHM organizational issues and movement building. This could include regional meetings, interregional exchanges, circle meetings and so on.

MONDAY JULY 18 AND TUESDAY, JULY 19

EXPERIENCES IN THE ORGANIZATION OF PHM IN YOUR REGIONS

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

BUILIDING CAMPAIGNS AND COLLECTIVES INITIATIVES

• THE HEALTH NOW CAMPAIGN.

Facilitation Group:  Bert de Belder, Intel, Belgium,   Unnikrishnan P.V., India

• Additional PHM campaigns

THURSDAY, JULY 21

STRATEGIC REGIONAL PLANS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE GLOBAL PHM

Chairpersons: 

Olle Nordberg and Qasem Chowdhury

Conclusions, recommendations and plan of action for the PHM from each of the regions.

THURSDAY, JULY 21

REPORT ON THE GLOBAL CHILDREN’S FORUM

Conclusions, recommendations and plan of action

THURSDAY, JULY 21

REPORT ON THE YOUTH FORUM

Conclusions, recommendations and plan of action.