PHM-Exch> Webinar on 25 February 2021: Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and commercialisation in healthcare: donors, profit and people

[Thomas Schwarz]

KAMPALA INITIATIVE WEBINAR
PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND 
COMMERCIALISATION IN HEALTHCARE: 
DONORS, PROFIT AND PEOPLE

Date: 25 February 2021

Time: 12.00-1.30 PM UTC

Registration:  <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kQcun-dDTTa5IcjzZ7aQMg> Zoom link
Website:  <https://www.medicusmundi.org/kampalawebinars/> Kampala Initiative

 

Dear civil society colleagues defending the right to health,

 

We are very pleased to invite you to our upcoming webinar to discuss our latest finding on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in healthcare and how we can reverse the process of healthcare commercialisation. This webinar is jointly hosted by the Kampala Initiative and its task group “Challenge PPPs” and Wemos.

 

Healthcare commercialisation

PPPs in healthcare are increasingly promoted by global actors as an instrument to provide and finance healthcare in many countries. However, academics and civil society have criticised the use of PPPs, because of their high cost and their failure to address accessibility problems for the poor. Now that Covid-19 is showing the world the great importance of strong and equitable health systems, it is time to move beyond these critiques and work to reverse the process of healthcare commercialisation.

Programme of the webinar

In this interactive webinar, we will share the latest findings on PPPs in healthcare. We will look at commercial actors, see how they are promoted by certain donors, and analyse how they impact health access and health equity. The webinar intends to create a space to discuss these findings and their implications, and to work as civil society to refine health advocacy actions towards our governments.

During the webinar there will be short introductions and presentations to engage all participants in the discussion. The participants are captioned below:

§   Leah Eryenyu (Akina Mama wa Afrika) will talk about PPPs’ gendered impact on access to public (health) services.

§   Barbara Fienieg and Marco Angelo (Wemos) will discuss how healthcare privatisation and commercialisation are promoted through development finance, and the problems this causes.

§   Denis Bukenya and Siomha Cunniffe (Kampala Initiative task group “Challenge PPPs”) will kick off an interactive discussion on the role of national governments in healthcare PPPs, with the example of the Lubowa PPP hospital.

§   Allana Kembabazi (Initiative for Social and Economic Rights) will start off another interactive discussion, on the role of donors in healthcare PPPs, with the example of the World Bank funded Reproductive Health Voucher Project.

§   And of course, you! We would like to hear your opinion, and (advocacy) experiences around PPPs and (donor-driven) commercialisation in healthcare, and your thoughts on what should be done next.

Discussion moderated by Ravi Ram, People's Health Movement/Kampala Initiative.
Prior to the webinar, we will share interesting reading material on the topic  <https://www.medicusmundi.org/kampalawebinars/> on the meeting website.

We really look forward to meeting you on Thursday, 25 February at 12 noon UTC (1 PM Central Europe and West Africa, 3 PM East Africa, 5.30 PM India, 7 AM Western Atlantic)!

Best regards,

Barbara Fienieg and Marco Angelo, Wemos
Denis Bukenya and Siomha Cunniffe, “Challenge PPPs”
Ravi Ram and Thomas Schwarz, Kampala Initiative

 

Kampala Initiative logo A luta continua.png

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://phm.phmovement.org/pipermail/phm-exchange-phmovement.org/attachments/20210216/5aa761c4/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 163888 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://phm.phmovement.org/pipermail/phm-exchange-phmovement.org/attachments/20210216/5aa761c4/attachment-0001.png>