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.

New workshop at the EQUINET conference: BANG – the Next Technological Challenge to Africa’s Health and Well-being

Facing multiple global crises, governments and corporations are arguing that new technologies are the solution to fixing everything from climate chaos to hunger and health problems. What do these new technologies mean for African countries? In which contexts are they being developed? Who controls and who will benefit from them? Are they bringing new impacts to our health, environment and economies? The workshop will feature presentations from ETC group, an international civil society organization based in Canada, and African partners which will explain and introduce the issues, followed by questions and discussions with participants.
Visit the conference website www.equinetafrica.org/conference2009/workshops.php for more details and to register

EQUINET CONFERENCE September 23-25 2009 REGISTRATION HAS NOW CLOSED

Registration for the EQUINET conference has closed. We look forward to welcoming delegates from government, non state organisations, academic and research institutions, civil society, parliaments, regional and international organisations and other institutions promoting and working on equity in health in east and southern Africa!
Registration information is at register for the conference and the pre and post conference workshops.

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RECCOMENDATIONS OF THE REGIONAL REVIEW MEETING ON HEALTH WORKER RETENTION Namibia, February 25-27 2009

EQUINET in co-operation with ECSA-HC have, with government and researchers in five countries, carried out review and field studies on the implementation of incentives for health worker retention and of their impact on the adequacy and distribution of health workers. A regional meeting was held in February 2009 to review this work and other work on health worker migration and distribution in EQUINET in Windhoek Namibia, locally hosted by the University of Namibia. The recommendations of the meeting are shown below. For further information please contact us at admin@equinetafrica.org, using "HCW Retention" in the subject line.

Recommendations from the regional meeting on health worker retention in East and Southern Africa February 27 2009

The EQUINET –ECSA HC regional meeting on health worker retention in east and southern Africa (ESA) was held in Windhoek, Namibia February 25-27 2008 and involved 32 delegates from government, academic and research institutions, health worker organisations, parliament and civil society from 10 ESA countries and from regional organisations including SADC and WHO (see delegate list). In line with the ECSA Regional Health Ministers Conference (RHMC) resolutions 2006-2008, the SADC Resolutions on Health workers, and the ECSA and SADC strategies on health workers, the meeting reviewed evidence from two regional review papers, five country field studies (see reference list), a multi-country participatory research programme and delegate experience to propose areas for policy, guidelines and research on health worker retention, especially in priority health services. ... continued below

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