PHA-Exchange> Wemos seminar 'Solution or Disillusion?' on November 4th, The Hague

[Nienke Nuyens]

Wemos would like to invite you to the seminar

'Solution or Disillusion 
Can we make global public private partnerships work for health?'
Thursday November 4th 2004

>From 9.30 until 14.00 in Dudok, Hofweg 1a, The Hague

Health related institutions of the United Nations such as the WHO, 
Unicef and UNAIDS are increasingly appealing to companies and rich 
individuals such as Bill Gates to provide funds and other resources 
for the improvement of people's health in poor countries. Together 
with national governments they are engaging in a growing number of so-
called Global Public Private Initiatives or partnerships (GPPI's). 
The collaboration with corporations brings opportunities to set up 
programmes that were unaffordable before. For governments in 
developing countries it offers resources to fight widespread diseases 
like AIDS and malaria. The question however is whether the present 
GPPIs are an effective way to improve people's health. Moreover there 
is a growing concern about the increasing influence of the corporate 
sector on international health policy. 

During the past year, partners of Wemos in six developing countries 
have carried out case studies in order to shed light on the 
performance of some GPPIs programmes at country level and the 
consequences of these programmes for local health systems. The case 
studies have been completed and will be presented at the seminar. 
Wemos would like to use the results to discuss partnerships as a 
means to promote health in developing countries. 

Preliminary programme:
9.00 - 9.30:	Registration and coffee
9.30 - 9.45:	Word of welcome and introduction to the programme
9.45 - 10.15:	Global Alliance to Eradicate Lymphatic Filariasis in 			
India 
Dr. Daisy Damarai (PREPARE, India)
10.15 - 10.45:	Roll Back Malaria Partnership in Tanzania
		Mrs. Mwajuma S. Masaiganah (People's Health Movement East Africa) 
10.45 - 11.15: 	Coffee break
11.15 -  11.45:	WHO and partnerships 
	Dr. S. Holcks, director of the WHO department Government, Civil 
Society and Private Sector Relations
11.45 - 12.15:	The role of the farmaceutical industry in partnerships 
in health
		Francis Weyzig, SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational 
Corporations)
12.15 - 13.00: 	Panel-discussion: can we make partnerships work for 
health?, with:

"	Dr. S. Holcks - WHO
"	Prof. Dr. Anita Hardon - professor Anthropology of health and 
health care, University of Amsterdam
"	Dr. Daisy Damarai - PREPARE, India
"	Drs. R. de Vos - deputy director general Development Cooperation of 
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (under restriction)
"	Representative of the pharmaceutical industry
13.00 - 14.00:	Lunch with music

Please sign up for the seminar, with or without lunch, by sending an 
email to privatesector at wemos.nl. For more information, please contact 
Nienke Nuyens at 020-4352060. 




Communication officer
Health and the Private Sector
Please reply to nienke.nuyens at wemos.nl
tel +31-20-4352060

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The highest attainable standard of health is a fundamental Human 
Right.
Wemos Foundation has been working since 1981 to improve people's 
health in
developing countries through influencing international policy.

Wemos Foundation, P.O. Box 1693, 1000 BR Amsterdam, The Netherlands
tel +31-20-4352050 / fax +31-20-4686008 / web site 
http://www.wemos.nl
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