Resources- Online Course- ‘Past, Present and Future Struggles for Health Equity’

29 July

Week 1 Introduction and overview

  1. EQUINET brief*  https://tinyurl.com/37mk4kwx
    2. PHM Charter for Health* https://tinyurl.com/8j8ev4bz
    3. EQUINET website https://www.equinetafrica.org/
    4. PHM website https://phmovement.org/
    5. RPHU programme* https://www.equinetafrica.org/rphu/rphu-programme
    6. Research that supports Health Equity https://tinyurl.com/ynjyjp9y
    7. Report of the 4th People’s Health Assembly https://tinyurl.com/puduek88
    8. Reclaiming the Resources for Health https://tinyurl.com/4rc3z2ym
    9. Global Health Watch reports https://phmovement.org/global-health-watch/

2-6 August
Week 2: Political economy and reclaiming resources for health

  1. Inequality’s deadly toll- Can COVID push science to finally address the issue?* www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-021-00943-x/index.html
  2. The disposession of African wealth at the cost of African health* www.equinetafrica.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/DIS30trade.pdf
  3. Alternative Mining Indaba: Struggles on mining in the time of COVID* https://tinyurl.com/4r2krnrc
  4. Resource curse or fair benefit: Protecting health in the extractive sector in ESA* https://tinyurl.com/4nsw9nyw
  5. Multiple shocks hitting the African continent*  https://tinyurl.com/ywuaxvvr
  6. Engaging globally with how to achieve healthy societies* https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/4/e005257.full
  7. Interviews with Firoze Manji on learnings on COVID-19  https://tinyurl.com/54nw33e5
  8. Gene drives, second generation GM technology and Africa https://tinyurl.com/34v4xrxt
  9. Voices from CSOs and farmer-led organisations in Africa https://tinyurl.com/4nd7azvr
  10. How farmer input subsidy programmes lock smallholder farmers into industrial agriculture www.acbio.org.za/why-farmers-find-fisp-problematic-part-1-4-videos
  11. Abolitionist Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pandemic  https://tinyurl.com/3j37ce8z
  12. EQUINET series on trends in water, mining, biodiversity climate in the region  https://tinyurl.com/2362mvp9
  13. In, against, beyond, corona https://tinyurl.com/r55a4trr
  14. EQUINET series and briefs on COVID  https://tinyurl.com/r55a4trr
  15. P Bond lectures on political economy, watch at https://vimeo.com/507299140  and  https://vimeo.com/507322521 
  16. Deep medicine and how capitalism primes us for sickness  www.democracynow.org/2021/8/2/inflamed_rupa_marya_raj_patel_interview

16-20 August
Week 3: Ideas of health and wellbeing, SDH and reclaiming comprehensive public health

  1. The Contribution Of Civil Society Engagement To The Achievement Of Health For All* https://tinyurl.com/scx8kc8y
  2. A conceptual framework for action on the social determinants of health. Social Determinants of Health* https://tinyurl.com/94b5d7eb
  3. Wheels of the bus go round and round: racism in women’s health organization* https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjgh/2020/10/26/wheels-of-the-bus-go-round-and-ro…
  4. DAWN Informs on PPPs*  https://dawnnet.org/publication/dawn-informs-on-ppps/
  5. Inter-sectoral co-financing: Financing across sectors for universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa*  https://tinyurl.com/6vp6ctvk 
  6. Planetary health: from concept to decisive action  https://tinyurl.com/4zjvsh3j 
  7. Social determinants of health: the role of effective communication in the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries https://tinyurl.com/u7jv5e8s
  8. Bridging the health inequality gap: an examination of South Africa’s social innovation in health landscape https://tinyurl.com/3bmk4fsb 
  9. Mental health in Africa  https://tinyurl.com/244wzbzd 
  10. Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health  https://tinyurl.com/3d3x95uj
  11. Moving towards health in all policies: a compilation of experience from Africa, South-East Asia and the Western Pacific https://tinyurl.com/4rdmt3pc
  12. When Women’s Spaces Don’t Deliver! https://tinyurl.com/58bs6pjp 
  13. Women Activists speak about COVID-19 in Nairobi  https://tinyurl.com/yhxn6nkk 
  14. A Spotlight on Adolescent Girls and Young Women  https://tinyurl.com/tj5py9hx 
  15. A Simplified Handbook on Economic and Social Rights for Community Advocates  https://tinyurl.com/yztd5bm8
  16. Kampala initiative Report on areas of work  https://tinyurl.com/4nkdc6nf 
  17. Risky business: position paper on the promotion of public-private partnerships in healthcare  https://tinyurl.com/836rksca 
  18. Technical brief: Co-financing for development synergies https://tinyurl.com/42864r2t 
  19. The economics of social determinants of health and health inequalities: a resource book. Chapter 2 https://tinyurl.com/7pr2f8uz

30 August-3 September
Week 4: Health systems and Comprehensive primary health care (PHC)

  • Watch Vera Scott (UWC and PHMSA) on  What is meant by a health system?  https://youtu.be/GgeMr27gOPg
  • Listen to Melanie Alperstein (PHMSA) on  Comprehensive Primary Health Care for social justice and equitable Health for All https://youtu.be/yD08ZLJXiGc
  • Watch Louis Reynolds (PHMSA and UCT)on Social participation and intersectoral action in health and health in all policy  https://youtu.be/Q6MtOnOnwBQ
  • Listen to Approaches to Universal health coverage and equity: Uganda’s approach by Denis Bukena, CEHURD and PHM Uganda and South Africa’s approach through National Health Insurance by Louis Reynolds, PHMSA https://youtu.be/jVOxicu0Vfs
  1. Alma Ata Declaration*  https://www.who.int/publications/almaata_declaration_en.pdf
  2. Alternative Civil Society Astana Statement on Primary Health Care*  https://tinyurl.com/xzwmm5tu
  3. The politics of Primary health care*  https://tinyurl.com/t6ruu5zw
  4. African Civil Society Statement on Universal Health Coverage*  https://tinyurl.com/3b2jntymw
  5. From PHC to UHC:  1 step forwards, 2 steps back*  https://tinyurl.com/2jyrmfx4
  6. Strong Public Health Care to Contain the Global Corona Pandemic* https://tinyurl.com/fbj6nas5
  7. Can the NHI achieve Health for All?  https://tinyurl.com/3rd8pmra
  8. Uganda case study on UHC
  9. Reclaiming Comprehensive public health https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/9/e003886
  10. How does target-driven funding affect comprehensive primary health care in east and southern Africa? https://tinyurl.com/2yxasa3d
  11. Primary Health Care Revolution www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3OkKWjHrAU
  12. Reflections on the NHI Campaign  https://tinyurl.com/ampc9h9a
  13. PHM Kenya study on a people centered UHC https://phmovement.org/phm-kenya-study-on-a-people-centered-univeral-hea…

13-15 September
Week 5a: Power, values, rights, law and reclaiming collective agency

  1. How can gender equity be addressed through health systems* https://tinyurl.com/kkrud8xv
  2. The social determinants of health, health equity, and human rights* https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-3xcA3Pe-shNgUUI0Tx7UyB8zBfiaWrI/view?u…
  3. Gender equality in health* https://www.paho.org/hq/dmdocuments/2010/Gender-equality-in-health-EN.pdf
  4. From insights to action: Gender equality in the wake of COVID-19* https://tinyurl.com/hdxpna9t

15-16 September
Week 5b: Power, values, rights, law and reclaiming collective agency

  1. EQUINET Discussion paper 118: Comparative review: Implementation of constitutional provisions on the right to healthcare in Kenya and Uganda* https://tinyurl.com/mpkzwfke
  2. EQUINET Case study: Review of Constitutional Provisions on the Right to Health in Uganda* https://tinyurl.com/wc64svb8
  3. Rights in a Pandemic: Lockdowns, rights and lessons from HIV in the early response to COVID-19* https://tinyurl.com/yyakmrvc

27 September-1 October
Week 6: Commodification, privatization in health and reclaiming the state

  1. The Pandemic COVID-19 and profiteering*  https://tinyurl.com/3jb3xyfw
  2. EQUINET Diss paper 99: Legislation on the for-profit private health sector in east and southern Africa* https://tinyurl.com/n69kr6uw
  3. SEATINI petitions court over public private partnership law* https://tinyurl.com/87mkkyb
  4. Civil society expresses concerns that the WHO could be encouraging the commercialisation and privatisation of healthcare amidst the COVID-19 crisis https://tinyurl.com/4wbbyvt9
  5. The Impact of Reliance on Private Sector Health Services on the Right to Health https://tinyurl.com/z43fucc
  6. Human rights and privatisation in the health sector https://tinyurl.com/nwke8c2x
  7. Achieving Equity in Health.  Are Public Private Partnerships the Solution? https://tinyurl.com/nwke8c2x
  8. Failing to reach the poorest. Assessment of the World Bank Funded Uganda Reproductive Health Voucher Project https://tinyurl.com/r2hk7r2b
  9. EQUINET Diss paper 77: Commercialisation of health and capital flows in east and southern Africa: Issues and implications https://tinyurl.com/tct866wm
  10. Civil Society sues Government over the International Specialized Hospital, Lubowa. https://tinyurl.com/nwke8c2x

4-8 October
Week 7: Equity in health technology

  1. Report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines: Promoting innovation and access to health technologies*http://www.unsgaccessmeds.org/final-report/
  2. EQUINET, ECSA brief: Securing COVID-19 related diagnostics, health technology, medicines and vaccines for African public health* https://tinyurl.com/23uthwtx
  3. Cuba Libre to be COVID-Libre: Five Vaccines and Counting* https://tinyurl.com/5xvr4pp4
  4. Medicines production and procurement in ESA and the role of south- south co-operation, EQUINET Diss paper 104* https://tinyurl.com/934r9cz2
  5. WTO | intellectual property (TRIPS) – TRIPS and public health https://tinyurl.com/4vsfj583
  6. Programme review of Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property. https://tinyurl.com/hs5rzw4z
  7. Interview with Riaz Tayob, SEATINI https://tinyurl.com/zyn7fbvz
  8. Vaccine production in South Africa: how an industry in its infancy can be developed https://tinyurl.com/242d5amx
  9. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa: Business Plan https://tinyurl.com/ym735ppt
  10. East African Community regional pharmaceutical manufacturing plan of action 2012-2016. https://tinyurl.com/2kcxyt75
  11. SADC pharmaceutical business plan: 2007-2013, SADC Secretariat, Gaborone https://tinyurl.com/2fdjy93k

10-15 October
Week 8: Social participation and organising activism for health

  1. Building empowered communities for health: A film on health literacy and participatory approaches to health in Zambia* https://vimeo.com/72914294
  2. Health Committee Training manual (pages49-54)* https://tinyurl.com/3p29kpj6
  3. EQUINET Diss paper 101: Health centre committees as a vehicle for social participation in health systems in ESA* https://tinyurl.com/ysb8d8b3
  4. ‘We are subjects, not objects in health’: Communities taking action on COVID-19* https://tinyurl.com/wtm8sxe2
  5. Case Study: Lusaka district health office, Zambia https://tinyurl.com/druwexa8
  6. Experiences of social power and participation in local health system https://tinyurl.com/5eupmkaj
  7. Facilitator’s Health Committee Training manual  https://tinyurl.com/5csvn34c
  8. PAR in health systems: A methods reader  https://tinyurl.com/nh9x2ent
  9. EQUINET Participatory Methods toolkit: Organising People’s Power for Health https://tinyurl.com/hmkcf8h7

25-29 October
Week 9: Building a movement for health equity

  1. PHM Manual Building a Movement for Health https://tinyurl.com/94rxv9xh
  2. How to Engage in Building the Right to Health Movement www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5X0LfiP_yU
  3. C19 Coalition material https://c19peoplescoalition.org.za/
  4. Global health activists’ lessons on building social movements and capacity of society to advocate for health https://tinyurl.com/6u2xpt78

8-12 November
Week 10: Recap, evaluation and future steps

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