PHA-Exchange> World Social Forum Nairobi, Jan: program

Thu Dec 21 17:11:35 PST 2006

PHM sympathizers and members are encouraged to attend.
If you want to participate in the program in any session, write to Dr Armando 
de Negri at armandon at portoweb.com.br 
A Spanish version of the program is available from Dr de Negri.

II WORLD SOCIAL FORUM ON HEALTH
POLITICAL AGENDA

HEALTH IN AFRICA: THE MIRROR OF THE WORLD

TO BE HELD WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE VII WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
                       January 21 to 23, 2007
                        NAIROBI - KENYA

AGENDA:

MAIN SUBJECT

THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH AND THE CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSAL, 
COMPREHENSIVE AND EQUITABLE HEALTH SYSTEMS AND SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE AFRICAN 
AND WORLD CONTEXT 

A HEALTH FOR ALL AGENDA: ANOTHER AFRICA AND ANOTHER WORLD ARE POSSIBLE AND 
NECESSARY...

Panels, activities, approaches and topics to develop the main subject:

Day 1: 21/01/07

Morning 9-12:00

Opening Ceremony 

Panel 1 “Exploring the political background of the struggle for the right to 
health 
in Africa and in the World”  

- Equity as the engine behind the setting up of policies and systems of health 
and social security.
- Health as an international and  national public good and the implications of 
this fact; 
how to ensure  the acceptance and inclusion of the social determinants of 
health in health care services in the agendas of the free trade agreements.
- The right to  health ( a model of human development friendly to  
health that addresses the economic and social determinants); the right to 
comprehensive primary health care. How to break the biomedical  logic behind 
today´s health care practices.
- Health promotion strategy respecting equity and quality health care.
- The political economy of worldwide systems of health and social security; 
how 
to give economic priority to the payment of the accumulated social debt and 
how to link  this effort to a sustainable economic development. 
- How to handle the relationship of economic development projects (e.g.,  
those of the mining and energy sectors) to overcome poverty and ill-health 
through the redistribution of resources and  profits from the productive 
sector.

Day 1: 21/01/07
13:30 – 15:00
Parallel tracks with presentations and activities of different organizations 
and movements around health issues, preferably around the subjects of the 
Panels of the day.*

Day 1: 21/01/07
afternoon 15-18:00

Panel the 2 “Challenges to respond to the health and social security needs of 
Africa - a threatening reality and a world-wide responsibility”. 

-Health needs of the different regions of Africa and their relationship with 
the needs of other continents; barriers to the advancement of guarantees to 
the right to health for the different social actors involved. 
-Existing space for debate and for the formulation of proposals that consider 
the national, sub-regional and continentwide realities. The African Social 
Letter and the Latin American Social Agenda in the context of regional blocks 
of countries; positioning health as a central axis of this integration.
-Identification of strategies for a SOUTH - SOUTH cooperation between social 
movements and governments. Can the right to health be the axis of such social 
agendas in the integration of country blocks to oppose the neoliberal 
globalization and its free markets?
-Can we overcome the fragmentation of the struggles that only respond to 
systematic “sanitary emergencies” so as to fight for the health care of the 
people with HIV, Malaria, TB... and to fight against maternal and infant 
mortality... against the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases, 
mental disease, cancer, injuries
 These all need to be fought as struggles 
integrated around building universal systems of guarantee of the human right 
to health and social security.
-The right to health in the context of the wars in Africa.
-Health and work - work in its present configuration and the guarantee of the 
right to health, to work, to a healthy atmosphere and to social security as 
elements of interdependent rights.

Day 1: 21/01/07
Evening   18:00 - 20:00
  African Session of  ´The  International Court of Peoples’ Right to Health´:  
Examining  the national and international responsibilities in matters of 
violations of the 
  Right to health; vindicating the concept of genocide (or the conscious 
production of social inequity and death through the “planned lack of 
assistance” promoted by the neoliberal policies). 

Day 2: 22/01/07
9:00-12:00
Panel the 3 “The struggles for health care in Africa - multiple needs in 
search of universal systems of health and social security”
- Ways out for the generalized crisis of  hospital-based care and the defense 
of public hospitals, including the universal and comprehensive access to 
emergency care. Flawed Primary Health Care and the building of truly universal 
health systems directed towards equity and comprehensive care.
- The fight against transmissible and non-transmissible diseases: AIDS, 
malaria and tuberculosis, the other endemic and forgotten diseases, injuries, 
mental health, avoidable morbidity and mortality - including childhood and 
maternal - in the context of the promotion of universal systems of health care 
in Africa: possibilities and obstacles.
- Wars and the international cynicism about the regional and national 
conflicts in Africa.
- Economic migration and the deterioration of health.
- Sexual and reproductive health and the right of women in the African and 
international context - policies and systems to defend it.
-The brain drain - migration of the health workers of Africa towards the rich 
countries - a mortal diaspora. 
-Financing of health and social security systems: tax funded systems x 
insurance systems  /targeting systems

Day 2: 22/01/07
13:30 – 15:00
Parallel tracks with presentations and activities of different organizations 
and movements around health issues, preferably around the subjects of the 
Panels of the day.*

Day 2: 22/01/07
15:00-18:30
Series of Panels  (Panel 4) - “ The role of the political actors in the fight 
for 
the Right to Health in Africa -  limits and commitments”

-The role and performance of national governments around the subject of public 
policy in health and its contradiction with the policies imposed by the 
international financial institutions; alternatives policies of health and 
social security in the region when facing to the real social needs of the 
population. 
-The role of Local Governments in Health; decentralization and the performance 
of  these governments; their limits and duties. 
-The role of parliaments in the adoption of public policy with a view towards 
human rights that allows universal access to health and to social security. 
-Legislative guarantees of rights (to be accompanied by a debate of the models 
of financing universal and comprehensive health. 
  - The multilateral organizations and NGO s - the democratization of their 
management and their commitment to universal and integrated systems of health 
and social security. 
 -Strategies of the social movements  in the fight for the right to  health 
and social security in the context of the different countries, subregions and 
the continent; the relationship of those struggles to the world-wide movement 
for health for all now.  
-Participation and Control of Society and the State when defining and 
executing policies of health and social security. The political emancipation 
of communities and the role of the State. Strategies for communities to take 
control of health as a right and to articulate it with the right to social 
security and a sustainable development. 
-Organization of health and social security workers and the political building 
of universal, comprehensive and equitable public systems. 

Day 3: 23/01/07
9:00-12:00
Panel 5 –“ Building a Worldwide Agenda for the Right to Health”
 -Projects and Actions for an International Mobilization with emphasis on the 
next 5 years and an agenda for a Network on the Right to Health in Africa; 
interconnected initiatives to develop a politics of justice in the economic 
relationships within the Continent and the reorientation of humanitarian and 
technical aid and economic cooperation. 
-PHM Global Campaign for the Right to Health and Health Care. PHM Agendas.
-Campaign against privatization in Europe.
-Campaign for the Human Right to Health in Latin America.
-Campaigns against Wars and the situation of the right to health in the 
context of armed conflicts. 
-Campaigns against the payment of foreign debt and in favor of health and 
education investments. -Campaigns against the payment of the external debts 
and in favor of health and education investments.
-Food Security World campaign
-TRIPS and Intellectual Property – drugs and medical technology
-MDG and the critical role of civil society – policy making challenges
-The Commission of Social Determinants of WHO – an obstacle or a tool for 
human rights on health?
-Organization and Edition of an International Electronic Bulletin of the World 
Social Forum on Health published in many languages, according to proposal 
submitted by ATTAC France.
-April 7: mobilization in favor of the right to health and
-other agendas.

Day 3: 23/01/07
13:00 to 14:30
Parallel tracks with presentations and activities of different organizations 
and movements around health issues, preferably around the subjects of the 
Panels of the day. *

Day 3: 23/01/07
14:30 -17:00 
Panel 6 “ Needed alliances between social movements towards universal social 
security: health, education, social protection, environment, food security, 
access to water, housing conditions, land ownership, urban reform, public 
security, transportation, energy, women´s rights, children and young persons 
movements, free sexual orientation, black and indigenous people movements and 
others.”

17-19:00  Plenary- Conclusions and Political Agenda Approval, decision about 
the dates and venues of the World Social Forum on Health activities in 2008 (a 
III World Social Forum on Health or a World Congress on Right to Health and 
the Universal Health and Social Security Health Systems Development).

ATTENTION

* The parallel tracks activities are auto-managed initiatives that the 
different organizations and movements can propose to the World Social Forum on 
Health Secretariat till the 10th of January. The Secretariat already made the 
inscription of those spaces in the WSF Agenda and paid for that, what means 
that the organizations that propose activities on those spaces do not need to 
pay. Please notice the date of January 10 for your proposal submission. More 
information can be achieved at the page www.fsms.org.br and the submissions 
could be made by the mail fsms at berthier.com.br 

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