| Abstract |
The third EQUINET regional conference was held in September 2009 and brought together parliamentarians,
professionals, civil society members, policy makers, state officials, health workers and international agency personnel. It provided an opportunity to exchange across areas of work on different dimensions of health equity in east and southern
Africa. The conference was held at Speke Conference Centre, Munyonyo, Kampala, Uganda September 23rd–25th 2009. The EQUINET steering committee was the conference Scientific Committee, and it was organised by Training and
Research Support Centre (TARSC), working in cooperation with a local organising committee involving HEPS Uganda, Makerere University and Ministry of Health Uganda. It was
supported by institutional participants from the region and by SIDA (Sweden), IDRC (Canada), Cordaid, Kellogg, and APHRC. The conference theme, ‘Reclaiming the Resources for Health: Building Universal People Centred Health Systems in East and Southern Africa’ was chosen to share experience
and evidence on alternatives through which:
• poor people claim a fairer share of national
resources to improve their health;
• a larger share of global and national resources
are invested in redistributive health systems,
to overcome the impoverishing effects of ill
health; and
• countries in east and southern Africa (ESA)
claim and obtain a more just return from the
global economy, to increase the resources for
health.
The report follows the abstract book, also available on the EQUINET website, and provides the proceedings of the conference. |