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Governance and participation in health
KEEPING AN EYE ON EQUITY - AN EXHIBIT OF COMMUNITY PHOTOGRAPHY
EQUINET through TARSC supported community level health activists in eight countries with skills to use photography to bring out and display images of health equity issues from a community lens under the theme “KEEPING AN EYE ON EQUITY: Community visions of equity in health” . We used this process to strengthen capacities at community level in selected areas to use photo media to raise awareness and communicate voice on health issues. Images of health from a community lens have been displayed at the EQUINET conference in September 2009 and at the Global Health Research Forum in November 2009 with photogaphers were present to explain their work and actions to advancing health. If you are interested in this work or have experience to share, we'd love to hear from you! Please contact us at admin@equinetafrica.org with KEEPING AN EYE ON EQUITY in the subject line.
OUR WORK ON PARTICIPATION AND HEALTH
EQUINET through TARSC and Ifakara Health Institute is carrying out work on participatory mechanisms and approaches to people centred health systems. The work builds skills and gathers evidence together with country teams in nine countries in the region on how to strengthen participatory people centred health systems, and build community voice in planning and implementing health services. Reports of the past training meetings and follow up work are found on the website and will be reported at a pre-conference regional meeting on 22 September 2009.
EQUINET has noted that equity related work needs to define and build a more active role for important stakeholders in health, and to incorporate the power and ability people (and social groups) have to make choices over health inputs and their capacity to use these choices towards health. To do this requires a clearer analysis of the social dimensions of health and their role in health equity. This means exploring the role of social networking and exclusion, of the forms and levels of participation and of how systems distribute power and authority over the resources needed for health. EQUINET is through TARSC also building a programme of work to build capacities and media for direct community voice and knowledge such as through community writing, drama and other media.
Training held on Participatory methods for strengthening community focused, primary health care orientated responses to prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS
EQUINET ithrough TARSC and IHRDC in co-operation with REACH Trust and GNP+ successfully held a Regional Training Workshop for east and southern African countries on Participatory Methods for research and training for a people centred health system on February 27 to March 1st 2008. The 2008 training explored how to overcome community and health systems barriers in accessing comprehensive prevention and treatment for HIV and AIDS and strengthening equitable primary health care responses to HIV and AIDS. It involved researchers, health workers, academics, civil society organisations, NGOs, community leaders and workers and others who are involved in work in east and southern Africa with communities and health workers who are doing or involved in work on equitable access to HIV and AIDS interventions, specifically at the interface between communities and health systems.
One of the delegates composed these words after.....
The Baggamoyo Experience
by Wilson Damien Asibu, Malawi... [click on "more" to see the full poem...]
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