EQUINET AFRICA

EQUINET, the Regional Network on Equity in Health in 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 i n the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and in southern and East Africa.

EQUINET is building a forum for dialogue, learning, sharing of information and experience and critical analysis. We do this to build knowledge and perspectiv es, shape effective strategies, strengthen our voice nationally, regionally and globally and our 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 fourteen institutions in southern Afr ica and is co-ordinated at the Training and Research Support Centre Zimbabwe.

Wishing you a healthy 2012

The EQUINET steering committee wishes you all a good new year. We look forward to our further interaction in 2012 on health justice in our region and globally.

EQUINET Regional Meeting on the Equity Watch and equity monitoring, Cape Town April 26-28 2012

An Equity Watch is a means of monitoring progress on health equity by gathering, organizing, analysing, reporting and reviewing evidence on equity in health. The aim is to assess the status and trends in a range of priority areas of health equity and to check progress on measures that promote health equity against commitments and goals. Reports have now been produced in five countries - Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya and Mozambique and further work is under discussion in Tanzania and Malawi, available on the EQUINET website. We are also producing in 2012 a regional equity analysis covering the 16 countries in EQUINET. The work has been done in association with the ECSA Health Community and in dialogue with WHO and UNICEF. On April 26 to 28th 2012 EQUINET will hold a regional workshop in Cape Town South Africa that will include training on equity analysis; review of the country equity watch work and follow up country and district work; and review of the draft regional equity analysis 2012. We hope to support input to the dialogue on ongoing country work on planning, monitoring and research on health equity, including in relation to the regional resolutions and the MDGs. If you are interested in this work or meeting please contact us at admin@equinetafrica.org

Participatory Action Research for Universal Health Coverage

Call for interest in a workshop/ session on participatory research in universal health coverage at the next Global Symposium on Health Systems Research October 2012
In the first Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 2010, EQUINET working with partners in Asia (SATHI) and Latin America (CEGSS) convened a session on participatory action research. We would like to hold a follow up session to share information on the role of and knowledge from participatory action research in building responsive, equitable, people centred and participatory public sector health systems, in promoting the right to health, in challenging commercialisation of health, and in participatory pathways to UHC. If you have work to report using participatory methods that relates to directly this theme, from whatever region, and are interested in being part of a proposal / abstract for a joint session for the global symposium please let us know before 9th January at admin@equinetafrica.org with PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH in the subject line.

Global Health Diplomacy in Sub-Saharan Africa

New research grants to be announced in early 2012
How can African policymakers engage in global health diplomacy to achieve stronger health systems and better population health? To answer this question, EQUINET working with the Global Health Diplomacy Network and in co-operation with the East Central and Southern African Health Community will be investigating cases of global health diplomacy of particular relevance for Sub-Saharan Africa. The work will seek to understand important factors to be effective in defending public health interests in global health diplomacy, through policy level research. A call for applicants for research grants for this work will be made in early 2012, so watch this site, or inform us at admin@eqinetafrica.org with GLOBAL HEALTH DIPLOMACY IN THE SUBJECT LINE if you would like to be emailed the call

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