PHM-Exch> Fwd: For exchange: APPLY NOW FOR IPHU Savar - Access to Medicines or Gender Justice

[Claudio Schuftan]

 APPLY NOW FOR IPHU Savar - Access to Medicines or Gender Justice






*APPLY NOW FOR IPHU SAVAR!*

The International People’s Health University of the People’s Health
Movement jointly with Gonoshasthaya Kendra, PHM Bangladesh, Third World
Network  and SAMA Resource Group for Women and Health with Naripokkho
announce “THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH”; a short training course for young
health activists from 6 to 13 November in Savar, Bangladesh.  Full details
here. <https://iphu.org/en/announcement/iphu-savar2018>

The course to be held in Savar will commence as a single course, then split
into two parallel streams of specialist study, dealing with *medicines
policy, and gender and health respectively, *and then come together again
for the final day. See below more information on the curriculum!

This course is held in the lead up to the 4th People’s Health Assembly
which will be held at Gonoshasthaya Kendra from 15-19 December. It is
expected that participants in the IPHU course will also be participating in
PHA4.

*Deadline for receiving applications: 14 September. Applicants will be
advised of the outcome of their application by 25 September.** Apply here.*
<https://www.iphu.org/en/savar2018/apply-en>

*The common curriculum will include:*

   - the struggle for health and organized health activism: challenges,
   strategy and practice, achievements and new directions;
   - social determinants of health: poverty, oppression and hierarchy;
   alienation and exclusion; racism, sexism and materialism;
   - comprehensive primary health care: achievements, challenges, lessons
   and new directions; health system strengthening; the politics of health
   policy; and
   - the political economy of health: imperialism and globalisation, the
   international financial institutions and the UN system; local issues and
   global pressures.


*The curriculum for the access to medicines stream *will focus on creating
the conditions for the full deployment of the flexibilities provided for in
the TRIPS Agreement (compulsory licensing, parallel importation,
patentability criteria, the LDC waiver and the constraints and
opportunities associated with existing national laws). In support of this
focus topics will include:

   -     TRIPS plus provisions,
   -     the structure of the pharmaceutical industry,
   -     the regulation of the global production chain, and
   -     reform of research and development financing.


*The curriculum for the gender and health stream *will include:

   - patriarchy and intersectionality: analysis of gender, caste, class,
   race, sexuality, and disability;
   - reproductive and sexual health and rights;
   - medicalisation of bodies: reproductive and advanced bio-technologies;
   - rising fundamentalisms impacting health (resistance to abortion and
   sexuality education; honour killings, violence (gender, caste, communal,
   ethnicity);
   - Health for All: role of the women’s movements - challenges and
   strategies.





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*REGISTER NOW for PHA4 !*





*Individual online registration now open,*

*Click Here <https://phmovement.org/registration/>*




While we encourage all to register online for logistical purpose such as
accommodation, airport transfers and catering, those who arrive at PHA4
without registration online are also welcome!



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