PHA Issue Paper

1

Mohan Rao (India)
Rene Loewenson (Zimbabwe)

Jawaharlal Nehru University,
Southern African Network on Equity and Health

The Political Economy Of The Assault On Health

People’s Charter for Health

2

Discussions in Language Groups of the People’s Charter for Health

Promoting Traditional Health Practices

3.1

Smita Bajpai (India)
Gayatri Girl (India)

Center for Health Education Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA)

Promotion Of Indigenous Health and Healing Practices in South Asia: A Strategy for Women's Empowerment

The workshop aims at enabling participants to look at people's healing traditions in their respective countries, share related experiences. Formulate strategies to promote sound health and healing traditions in South Asian Countries so as to enable women and children gain control over their own health.

3.2

K. Balasubramaniam (Sri Lanka)

Consumers International - ROAP

Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Age of Globalisation

Redefining the limits of modern medicine. Recovering, refining, and reintroducing harmonious healthcare.

3.3

Shelabrata Barua (Bangladesh)
Synthia D. Rozario (Bangladesh)

IDF/World Vision,

Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)

Promoting Indigenous Health Practices

Support available low cost alternative health care inputs. Presentaion includes experiences from World Vision. Center for Development Services (CDS) - Rangamati and DORP.

3.4

G. P Singh Jhala (India)

Jagran Jan Vikas Samiti, Udaipur

Traditional Health System as a Viable Alternative
Traditional Health Formulations of Gunis

To revive an age old Traditional Health Syste.
To introduce and recognize Gunis
(Traditional Health Practitioners, THP's) from tribal areas.
To raise the status of GUNI as "Primary Health Worker" in order to achieve the goal of "Health for All by 2020".
To popularize traditional health system and herbal remedies of gunis.
To adopt methods for the conservation of medicinal plants.

Mental Health

4.1

A.G. Kusumawathie (Sri Lanka)

People’s Education Centre

A Survey on Suicide

To lessen the number of suicides.
To make the people aware by discussing women’s rights, social status and to safe guard women’s position.

4.2

John Martin (Bangladesh)

Center for Mental Health and Development (CMHD)

Bangladesh War of Liberation and Its Mental Health Consequences

To understand and raise awareness on the mental health consequences of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.

4.3

Atsuko Ibata (Japan)

Japanese Association of Psychiatric Social Workers

Indigenous Psychiatry

To compare different systems to deal with mental health and alternatives to conventional psychiatry.

4.4

Ravi Kapoor,
Mohan Isaac (India)

Society for Community Health, Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA)

Community & Mental Health

Struggle for Community Control I

5.1

Julio Monsalvo (Argentina)

Institute of Popular Culture (IPC)

Health of Hands in the Community

Community initiatives to improve the health of peasant families.

5.2

Jenni Moore,
Alayna Watene(New Zealand)

Health Care Aotearoa

How to develope positive and acceptable processes and working together committeed to the treaty of Waitangi.  The group sees primary health as a social justice issue where multidisciplinary teams, intersectoral collaboration, community governance and community development will lead to better health in the community.

5.3

Mary Racells (Philippines)

Health by People: Linking People's Initiatives in Health and Well-being to the Formal Public Health System

A framework for effective partnerships and knowledge generaton with wide-ranging examples from Asia, Africa and the Americas

Healthy Ageing

6.1

Juan Manuel
Munoz Cuellar (Panama)

International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA)

Ageing and Health

Create consciousness about the importance of healthy ageing, as a process that depends on many social and economical aspects.

6.2

Nyasha Madzingira (Zimbabwe)

Institute Of Development Studies University Of Zimbabwe

Ageing And Health In Developing Countries

Brainstorming the issues related to health provision, accessibility and services for the elderly in developing countries; Assess possible research collaboration activities in this area.

6.3

Fely Bedidies (Philippines)
Gloria Co (Philippines)

Councile for Services for the Elderly (COSE)

Empowering Community Gerontologists: Mobilising Urban Poor Older Persons for Improved Health Care, Metro Manila

A broad programme of organising older persons in urban poor communities in which older community members are trained to address concerns of health and well-being

Maternity Protection, Child Survival and Maternal Health

7.1

Rukhsana Haider (Bangladesh)
Ted Greiner (Sweden)
Ines Fernandez (Philippines)
Funny Kondolo (Zambia)

World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)

Women, Work and Health: Maternity Protection Campaign

To focus on working women and the role of nurturing. It will look at the global Maternity Protection Campaign and stimulate participants with action ideas and materials for organisation international, national and community campaigns to implement the new ILO Maternity Protection convention 183. It will look at community support systems to make workplaces and other environment mother and baby friendly.

Women and HIV/AIDS

8.1

Mary Sandasi (Zimbabwe)

Women’s AIDS Support Network

8.2

Mwajuma Saiddy Masaiganah (Tanzania)

HIV/AIDS and the Female Population in Tanzania

To highlight the plight of women and the pan that they go through, by the spread of AIDS/HIV in Tanzania. The spread and extent of it and make reflections together with other participants on the impact of the policies put in place in our countries to eradicate it.

8.3

Asa G. Rakhmanova (Russia)

AIDS, Sex, Health Association

HIV/AIDS & Russian Women

8.4

Irene Salam Singh (India)

Association for Integrated Development of Women

Women and HIV in the Developing Country Context

To facilitate a better understanding of women’s increasing vulnerability to HIV. The need for advocacy to improve the socio economic status of women to formulate practical strategies to improve the quality of their lives to make available free AZT during pregnancy to ensure easy access to primary health care and make available anti retroviral drugs at subsidised rates.

Disability

9.1

B. Venkatesh (India)

Poverty, Disability and Social Inclusion

Activist from Bangalore who has worked in Ethiopia as well on disability in India and Ethiopia as well and who is himself disabled.

9.2

Shahidul Haque,
Fatema Rehana Hossain (Bangladesh)

Society for Assistance and Rehabilitation for Physically Vulnerable (SARPV)

Disability due to rickets during childhood and advocate for acceptance as a public health issue.

Urban Inequities and Illness

10.1

J.K. Baral,
Dipak Kumar Biswas (Bangladesh)

PROSHIKA

Problems of Urban Slum Dwellers

Issues: Slum eviction, health of slum dwellers, socio-economic status of slum dwellers. Suggestions and actions for proper rehabilitation of slum dwellers with establishing their basic needs and human rights.

10.2

Judith Cook,
Nick Emmel (UK)

MEDACT
Nuffield Institute for Health

Housing, Homelessness and Illness

Health effects of multiple evictions in Mumbai, and being homeless in London.

10.3

Hani Mohamed Mousa Serag (Egypt)

Association for Health and Environment (AHED)

Health in Cities

10.4

A. Mohit (Bangladesh)

Bangladesh University Of Engineering And Technology (BUET)

Health and Environment Issues in Urban Planning

Citizens initiatives.
Health and environmental issues with urban structures.

10.5

Ahmed Ali Kabir (Bangladesh)

Bangladesh University Of Engineering And Technology (BUET)

Urban Family Health Partnership

Health in Cities and Industry

10.6

Fran Baum (Australia)

Flinders University of South Australia

Health and Cities

Alternative Exchange: Time Banks and Social Capital

11.1

Sarah Burns (UK)

New Economics Foundation

Time Banks

A way to produce an appropriate response to mental, social problems by combating feelings of worthlessness and uselessness.

11.2

Tara P. John (India)

Women in Development Trust

Social Capital Building. - An Alternative To Input-Based Development

To introduce an alternative method of community mobilisation and self-help.

Displaced People and Health

12.1

Galina Verchinina (Russia)

Women Health

Migration, Refugees and Health

12.2

Anna Caralampe-Foka (Greece)

Institute Equality

Immigrant Women from the Balkans

12.3

Frank Tesoriero (Australia)

Flinders University of South Australia

Empowering Migrants in Foreign Health Systems

Health Rights

13.1

Alex Ivanov (Russia)

League of Patient's Defense

Ethical Standards for Medical Services

The development of ethical standards for medical services and quality control sensitive to women.

13.2

Arun Bal
Kannamma Raman (India)

Association for Consumers Action on Safety and Health (ACASH)

Rights of the Patients

To empower the patients to deal with the violations they might face and also to be aware of the rights and responsibilities they have.

13.3

Ghassan Issa (Lebanon)

Arab Resources Collective

13.4

Mary Grenough (Philippines)

Health Action for Human Rights (HAHR)

Human Rights and Health in the Philippines

The historial, political, cultural and economic oppression of the Filipino people with their continuing state of poor health and deprivation of needed health services will be presented. A new liberating politics is being shaped by the organized sectors as a basis for a healthy and a truly productive society.

Healthy Childhood

14.1

Mesbahuddin Ahmed (Bangladesh)

Gonoshasthaya Kendra

Neonatal Care: Experience of Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital

14.2

Babul Kumar Adhikari (Bangladesh)

Development Organisation for the Rural Poor (DORP)

Social Awareness Against Early Marriage

Prevention of early marriage to reduce child mortality rate, recording birth and death register malnutrition

14.3

Alison Balaba (Uganda)

Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC)

Poor Cultural Practices which Affect Health of Communities in Uganda

14.4

Natalia Cebotarenco (Moldova)

Association Drugs

Children And Medicines

To provide skills and methods of education programme regarding children and medicines, To discuss the approach of child to child in the implementation of the programme on children and medicines.

Role of Midwives and Women Healers

15

Farida Akhter (Bangladesh)
Donna Chiarelli (Canada)

Policy Research for Development Alternatives (UBINIG),
Women's Health Interaction (WHI)

The workshop will bring the midwives from different areas of Bangladesh to share their experiences with the international participants and exchange information with them. In the mainstream healthcare policies, the role of the midwives and women healers are undermined and sometimes misrepresented. The workshop will provide a picture of existing situation of the role that midwives and women healers play as health care providers for the rural people, especially for women and children.

Health of Marginalised Groups

16.1

Mohammad Abdur Sabur (Bangladesh)

CARE

Marginalised Groups in Bangladesh: Concerns and Struggles for Health and Life

Case Studies of Different Marginalised Groups like Floating Sex Workers, Brothel Sex Workers, Injecting Drug Users, Truck Users, Transgenders, HIV+ People, Sugarcane Farmers, Weavers. Their voices will be heard to draw lessons for a pro-people health charter.

16.2

Rezaul Karim,
Hashimi Aleya,
Begum (Bangladesh)

FFDA

Occupational Health Hazard Of Tati Community

Identify clinical health problems related to weaving as an occupation:
- Lack of health protection education
- Rehabilitation protection

16.3

Anita Rani Das,
Khurshid Alam,
B.K. Adhikary (Bangladesh)

YPSA
CODEC

Health Conditions of Fisherfolk Community

Health services accessible for fisher folk community to sustain livelihood.

16.4

Vasanthi Devi (India)

Health Impacts of Gender and Caste Dsicrimination Conditions of Fisherfolk Community

16.5

Nurhasdiana (Indonesia)

MATAHARI

Problems of sex workers and the Government's Responses

Safe Motherhood

17.1

Staffan Bergstrom (Sweden)

Karolinska Institutet

Role of Medium Level Healthcare Providers for Enhanced Survival of Mothers

17.2

Smita Bajpai (India)

Center for Health, Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA)

Addressing Maternal Health Issues

To review the efforts made to improve national health by the government and NGOs.
To Formulate strategies for improving maternal health.

17.3

Nasreen Huq,
Rebecca Milton (Bangladesh)

Naripokkho

Whither Safe Motherhood?

To share the extent of the problem of maternal mortality and develop strategies to overcome barriers to safe motherhood.
To develop areas for social action.

Aggressive Marketing and Essential Drugs in the Global Marketplace

18.1

Elton Kessel (USA)
Biral Mullick (India)
Nurjahun Bhuiyan (Bangladesh)
Wang Huiai-xiu

Internaitonal Federation for Family Health (FFH)

Health Responsibility, Failures of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Foundations and Governments

Case example of such failures stemming from lack of financial return, organisational survival and purposeful dissemination of misinformation as documented of internet messages.

18.2

Sharad Onta (Nepal)

PHECT Nepal and TU, IOM

Aggressive Marketing and Health Impact

18.3

S. Srinivasan (India)

LOCUST

Production of Essential Drugs: Problems and Prospects