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PHA 2000 Report

PHA 2000

Voices of the Unheard

Testimonies from the People’s Health Assembly December 2000,  Dhaka, Bangladesh Click here to download thepdf version 115 kb

PHA 2000 General Report - People's Health Assembly - December 2000 
Appendix 4: PHA Programme

PHA 2000 General Report - People's Health Assembly - December 2000 
Appendix 4: PHA Programme 
 
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3 December 2000 (Sunday)

  

8:30 am > 10:00 am	Briefings for the Regional Coordinators and Volunteers
9:00 am > 10:00 pm	Registration of Participants
10:00 am > 12:00 pm	Briefings for Facilitators, Speakers, Resource Persons, Rapporteurs, Translators
1:30 pm > 3:00 pm	Lunch
3:00 pm >	Global March for Health
4:30 pm > 5:30 pm	Press Briefing
5:00 pm > 6:15 pm	Tea Break/Breaking of Fast for Muslims (Ifter)
6:15 pm > 7:15 pm	Bangla Cultural Evening
from 8:00 pm	Dinner

  
  
4 December 2000 (Monday)

Theme of Day One: Health, Life and Well-being

(Interactive Activities*, Monday to Friday, 7:00 am - 9:00 pm)

  

8:30 am > 9:00 am	MC: Tara Theatre, Poetry, Song, Announcements Suggestions: Arugaan Pantomime Moms, Philippines Conference Song: Give Health a Chance
9:00 am > 9:30 am	Programme Orientation Mary Murray, Shireen Huq, Manny C. Calonzo
9:30 am > 11:00 am	Chair: N.H. Antia, India Moderator: Prem Chandran John, India S1 - Inaugural Session Stories: Mwajuma Saiddy, Tanzania  - Cost Recovery can be Fatal Geovanni Atarihuana, Ecuador  - The Story of Noemi by César Chérrez Bohórquez. Sarah Burns, UK  - Alone and Frightened Lipi, Bangladesh  - Lipi’s Story Welcome: Qasem Chowdhury, Bangladesh Addresses: Kabir Master, Minister of Health, Kerala, India Violeta Menjivar, El Salvador Vilma Salinas, Philippines James Orbinski, MSF
11:00 am > 11:30 am	Tea Break
11:30 am > 12:30 pm	Moderator: Prem Chandran John S2 - The Story of Gonoshasthaya Kendra [moved to 7pm]
12:30 pm > 1:30 pm	Moderator: Prem Chandran John S3- Explaining the PHA Process and the People’s Charter for Health K. Balasubramaniam, Sri Lanka Maria Hamlin Zuniga, Nicaragua Nadine Gasman, Mexico
1:30 pm > 3:00 pm	Lunch
3:00 pm > 4:00 pm	Press Briefing (Media Room)
3:00 pm > 5:00 pm	Concurrent Sessions (see separate listing at the end of the programme) Charter Discussions in Language Groups
5:00 pm > 6:15 pm	Tea Break/Breaking of Fast for Muslims (Ifter)
6:15 pm > 7:00 pm	Synthesis of the Day in Own Language Groups
7:00 pm > 8:30 pm	Space for:  - participants’ own meeting  - continuation of concurrent sessions if needed  - open cultural stage  - free time
from 8:00 pm	Dinner

  

  

 
5 December 2000 (Tuesday)

Theme of Day Two: Inequality, Poverty and Health

(Interactive Activities*, Monday to Friday, 7:00 am - 9:00 pm)

 

8:30 am > 9:00 am	MC: Tara Theatre, Poetry, Song, Announcements Suggestions: Song, Europe Statement of Solidarity, Mustafa Barghouti, Palestine; Cuba
9:00 am > 11:00 am	Chair: Partha De, Minister of Health, West Bengal, India Moderator: Maria Hamlin Zuniga, Nicaragua S4 - Poverty and Inequality Affecting Our Health around the World Regional Testimonies: Africa Asia Europe Latin America Middle East Pacific Panel Responses: Hafdan Mahler, Denmark David Woodward, UK Pascoal Mocumbi, Prime Minister, Mozambique Thelma Narayan, India Assetou E. Samake, Mali Interactions from the Floor
11:00 am > 11:30 am	Tea Break
11:30 am > 1:30 pm	S4 - Continuation of Panel Responses to  Regional Testimonies and Interactions from the Floor
1:30 pm > 3:00 pm	Lunch
3:00 pm > 4:00 pm	Press Briefing (Media Room)
3:00 pm > 5:00 pm	Concurrent Sessions (see separate listing at the end of the programme)
5:00 pm > 6:15 pm	Tea Break/Breaking of Fast for Muslims (Ifter)
6:15 pm > 7:00 pm	Synthesis of the Day in Own Language Groups
7:00 pm > 8:30 pm	Space for:  - participants’ own meeting  - continuation of concurrent sessions if needed  - open cultural stage  - free time
From 8:00 pm	Dinner

 

 

6 December 2000 (Wednesday)

Theme of Day Three: Health Care and Health Services

(Interactive Activities*, Monday to Friday, 7:00 am - 9:00 pm)

 

8:30 am > 9:00 am	MC: Tara Theatre, Poetry, Song, Announcements Suggestions: Poem of Ejiro Joyce Otive-Igbuzor, Nigeria Solidarity Statements and Messages Drama on Globalisation, Japan
9:00 am > 11:00 am	Chair: Irene Fisher, Australia Moderator: David Sanders, South Africa S5 - Health Systems and Our Health: What Changes are Needed? Stories: Alayna Watene, Aotearoa New Zealand  - They Said We Weren’t Good Enough A. Chintamani, India  - Struggling against Caste Exclusion: A Health Worker’s Story Panel: Luis Arias, Mexico Allyson Pollock, UK Edelina de la Paz, Philippines Martinho Dgedge, Mozambique Natasha Shawareb, Jordan Interactions from the Floor
11:00 am > 11:30 am	Tea Break
11:30 am > 2:00 pm	S6 - World Bank Faces the People Chair: Laxmi C. Jain, India Moderator: Jihad Mash’al, Palestine Stories: Mary Sandasi, Zimbabwe  - Structural Adjustment Programme Hugo Icu, Guatemala  - Health Care Reform in Central America Presentation: Richard Lee Skolnik, World Bank Panel: Antonio Tujan, Philippines David Legge, Australia Charles Mutasa, Zimbabwe Muzzafer Ahmad, Bangladesh Interactions from the Floor Response from Richard Lee Skolnik People’s Voices
2:00 pm > 3:00 pm	Lunch
3:00 pm > 4:00 pm	Press Briefing (Media Room)
3:00 pm > 5:00 pm	Concurrent Sessions (see programme booklet for details)
5:00 pm > 6:15 pm	Tea Break/Breaking of Fast for Muslims (Ifter)
6:15 pm > 7:00 pm	Synthesis of the Day in Own Language Groups
7:00 pm > 8:30 pm	Space for:  - participants’ own meeting  - continuation of concurrent sessions if needed  - open cultural stage  - free time
From 8:00 pm	Dinner

 

 

 
7 December 2000 (Thursday)

Theme of Day Four: Environment and Survival

(Interactive Activities*, Monday to Friday, 7:00 am - 9:00 pm)

 

8:30 am > 9:00 am	MC: Tara Theatre, Poetry, Song, Announcements Suggestions: Solidarity Statements and Messages
9:00 am > 11:00 am	Chair: Mustafa Barghouti, Palestine Moderator: Robin Stott, UK S7 - Environment and Survival Stories: Owen Wiwa, Nigeria  - The Ogoni Struggle Maria Ivania Cesar de Oliveira/Ani Wihbey, Brasil  - 27 Years Defending Health and Ecology of Our Island Satinath Sarangi, India  - Continuing Tragedy of Bhopal Halima Begum, Bangladesh  - Flood and Life Panel: Rosalie Bertell, Canada  - Radiation: Iraq/Pacific/Siberia Julie Delahanty, Canada  - Commercialisation of Human Genetic Diversity Qazi Faruq Ahmed, Bangladesh  - Environment and Health Anuradha Mittal, India  - Access and Right to Food Interactions from the Floor
11:00 am > 11:30 am	Tea Break
11:30 am > 1:30 pm	S8 - WTO: Implications for Health Chair: M. A. Jalil, Minister of Commerce, Bangladesh Moderator: Yoshi Ikezumi, Japan Stories: Fatima Akhter, Bangladesh  - Profits before Rights Marie Russell, Australia  - Living in Remote Rural Australia Kevin Lafferty, Scotland  - What Unemployment Means Panel: Mike Rowson, UK Mohamed Khalil, Egypt Zafar Mirza, Pakistan James Love, USA Interactions from the Floor
1:30 pm > 3:00 pm	Lunch
3:00 pm > 4:00 pm	Press Briefing (Media Room)
3:00 pm > 5:00 pm	Concurrent Sessions (see programme booklet for details)
5:00 pm > 6:00 pm	Tea Break/Breaking of Fast for Muslims (Ifter)
6:00 pm > 8:00 pm	Special Session: Health and Survival: Ethics, Legal Action and the Judiciary Landmark cases where verdicts have been given in favour of the public Chair: Abdul Matin Khasru, Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Bangladesh Moderator: Justice Naimuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh Panel: Justice Shiraz Daud, India Justice Fazlul Karim, Bangladesh
From 8:00 pm	Dinner

 

 

8 December 2000 (Friday)

Theme of Day Five: The Ways Forward

(Interactive Activities*, Monday to Friday, 7:00 am - 9:00 pm)
 

8:30 am > 9:00 am	MC: Tara Theatre, Poetry, Song, Announcements Suggestions: Solidarity Statements and Messages
9:00 am > 11:00 am	Chair: Edelina de la Paz, Philippines Moderator: Mary Murray S9 - Initiatives to Advance People’s Health Panel: Jenni Moore/Alayna Watene, Aotearoa New Zealand  - Breathing Life into the Treaty of Waitangi Dave Hall, UK  - The Role of Trade Unions in Protecting Public Services B. Ekbal, India  - Kerala: A State Commitment to Health Forward-Looking Experiences from the Floor] This was replaced by an interactive session of presentations and suggestions from the floor of possible follow up actions.
11:00 am > 11:30 am	Tea Break
11:30 am > 1.30 pm	S10 - Presentation of Charter and Call for Endorsement Ravi Narayan Nadine Gasman Including participatory banners inside the auditorium to enable people to endorse the charter.
1:30 pm > 3:00 pm	Lunch
3:00 pm > 4:00 pm	Press Briefing (Media Room)
3:00 pm > 5:00 pm	S12 - Concluding Session Moderators: Zafrullah Chowdhury, Bangladesh Evelyne Hong, Malaysia Summary:  - Representatives from the Regions: Africa, the Americas, the Middle   East Asia, Europe, the Pacific and Bangladesh  - David Werner, USA  - Mira Shiva, India Address by Chief Guest: Begum Khaleda Zia Word of Thanks Video Clips Conference Song: Give Health a Chance
5:00 pm > 6:00 pm	Tea Break/Breaking of Fast for Muslims (Ifter)
6:00 pm > 7:00 pm	Synthesis of the Day in Own Language Groups
From 7:00 pm	Farewell Global Mela and Dinner

 
 
*Interactive activities may include exhibition, yoga, meditation, tai chi, jogging, stalls, visual displays, story tents, people’s health bookshop, massage, video rooms etc.
 

 

CONCURRENT SESSIONS:

DAY ONE: 4 DECEMBER 2000 (MONDAY) 3.00-5.00pm

1. PHA Issue Paper: The Political Economy of the Assault on Health - Mohan Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) and Rene Loewenson (Southern African Network on Equity and Health, Zimbabwe)
2. People’s Charter for Health - Nadine Gasman (Mexico)
3. Promoting Traditional Health Practices: Promotion of Indigenous Health and Healing Practices in South Asia: A Strategy for Women's Empowerment - Smita Bajpai and Gayatri Giri Center for Health Education Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA) (India); Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Age of Globalisation - K. Balasubra-maniam (Consumers International, Sri Lanka): Promoting Indigenous Health Practices - Shelabrata Barua (IDF, Bangladesh) and Synthia D. Rozario (Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), Bangladesh); Traditional Health System as a Viable Alternative - G. P. Singh Jhala (Jagran Jan Vikas Samiti, Udaipur, India)
4. Mental Health: A Survey on Suicide - A.G. Kusumawathie (People’s Education Centre (PEC), Sri Lanka); Bangladesh War of Liberation and Its Mental Health Consequences - John Martin (Centre for Mental Health and Development (CMHD), Bangladesh); Indigenous Psychiatry - Atsuko Ibata (Japanese Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, Japan); Community and Mental Health - Ravi Kapoor and Mohan Isaac (Society for Community Health, Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA), India)
5. Struggle for Community Control I: Health in the Hands of the Community - Julio Monsalvo (Institute of Popular Culture (IPC), Argentina); Jenni Moore and Alayna Watene ( Health Care Aotearoa, New Zealand); Health by People: Linking People’s Initiatives in Health and Well-Being to the Formal Public Health System - Mary Racelis (Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)
6. Healthy Ageing: Ageing and Health - Juan Manuel Munoz Cuellar (International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), Panama); Ageing and Health in Developing Countries - Nyasha Madzingira (Institute of Develop-ment Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe); Empowering Community Gerontologists: Mobilising Urban Poor Older Persons for Improved Health Care, Metro Manila - Fely Bedidles and Gloria Co (Council of Services for the Elderly (COSE), Philippines)
7. Maternity Protection, Child Survival and Maternal Health: Women, Work and Health: Maternity Protection Campaign - Rukhsana Haider (Bangladesh), Ted Greiner (Sweden), Ines Fernandez (Philippines), Funny Kondolo (Zambia)
8. Women and HIV/AIDS: Mary Sandasi (Women and AIDS Support Network, Zimbabwe); HIV/AIDS and the Female Population in Tanzania - Mwajuma Saiddy Masaiganah (Tanzania); HIV/AIDS and Russian Women - Aza G. Rakhmanova (AIDS, Sex, Health Association, Russia); Women and HIV in the Developing Country Context - Irene Salam Singh (Association for Integrated Development of Women, India)
9. Disability: Poverty, Disability and Social Inclusion - B. Venkatesh (India); Shahidul Huque (Society for the Assistance and Rehabilitation for the Physically Vulnerable (SARPV) - Bangladesh)
10. Urban Inequities and Illness: Problems of Urban Slum Dwellers - J.K. Baral and Dipak Kumar Biswas (PROSHIKA, Bangladesh); Housing, Homelessness and Illness - Judith Cook (MEDACT, UK) and Nick Emmel (Nuffield Institute for Health, UK): Health in Cities - Hani Mohamed and Mousa Serag (Association for Health and Environment (AHED), Egypt); Health and Environment Issues in Urban Planning - A. Mohit (Bangladesh University Of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh); Health in the Cities and Industry - Ahmed Al Kabir (Urban Family Health Partnership, Bangladesh); Healthy Cities - Fran Baum (Flinders University, Australia)
11. Alternative Exchange: Time Banks and Social Capital: Time Banks - Sarah Burns (New Economics Foundation, UK); Social Capital Building - An Alternative to Input-Based Development - Tara P. John (Women in Development Trust, India)
12. Displaced People and Health: Migration, Refugees and Health - Galina Verchinina (Russia); Immigrant Women from the Balkans - Anna Caralampe-Foka (Institute Equality, Greece); Empowering Migrants in Foreign Health Systems - Frank Tesoriero (Flinders University, Australia)
13. Health Rights: Ethical Standards for Medical Services - Alex Ivanov (NGO League of Patient’s Defense, Russia); Rights of the Patients - Arun Bal and Kannamma Raman (Association for Consumers Action on Safety and Health (ACASH), India); Ghassan Issa (Arab Resource Collective, Lebanon); Human Rights and Health in the Philippines: A Continuing Struggle - Mary Grenough (Health Action for Human Rights (HAHR), Philippines)
14. Abstinence as Prevention: Drug Abuse - Maria Appie (Post Card Health Committee, South Africa)
15. Healthy Childhood: Neonatal Care: Experience of Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital - Mesbahuddin Ahmed (Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Bangladesh); Social Awareness against Early Marriage - Babul Kumer Adhikari (Development Organisation for the Rural Poor (DORP), Bangladesh); Poor Cultural Practices which Affect Health of Communities in Uganda - Alison Balaba (Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC), Uganda); Children and Medicines - Natalia Cebotarenco (Association Drugs, Moldova)
16. Role of Midwives and Women Healers: Farida Akhter (Policy Research for Development Alternatives (UBINIG), Bangladesh) and Donna Chiarelli (Women's Health Interaction (WHI), Canada
17. Health of Marginalised Groups: Marginalised Groups in Bangladesh: Concerns and Struggles for Health and Life - Mohammad Abdus Sabur (CARE, Bangladesh); Occupational Health Hazard Of Tati Community - Rezaul Karim Hashimi (FFDA, Bangladesh) and Laila Perveen (FIRM, Bangladesh); Health Conditions of Fisherfolk Community - Anita Rani Das (YSPA, Bangladesh) and Khurshid Alam (CODEC, Bangladesh); Health Impacts of Gender and Caste Discrimination - Vasanthi Devi (India); Problems of Sex Workers and the Government’s Response - Nurhasdiana (MATAHARI, Indonesia)
18. Safe Motherhood: Role of Medium Level Healthcare Providers for Enhanced Survival of Mothers - Staffan Bergstrom (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden); Address-ing Maternal Health Issues - Smita Bajpai (Centre for Health, Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA), India); Whither Safe Motherhood? - Nasreen Huq and Rebecca Milton (Naripokkho, Bangladesh)
19. Aggressive Marketing and Essential Drugs in the Global Marketplace: Health Responsibility, Failures of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Foundations and Governments - Elton Kessel (USA), Biral Mullick (India), Nurjahan Bhuiyan (Bangladesh), Wang Huiai-xiu (China) (International Federation for Family Health (FFH)); Aggressive Marketing and Health Impact - Sharad Onta (PHECT, Nepal); Production of Essential Drugs: Problems and Prospects - S. Srinivasan (LOCOST, India)

 

 

 
DAY TWO: 5 DECEMBER 2000 (TUESDAY) 3.00-5.00pm

1. PHA Issue Paper: Equity and Inequity Today: Some Contributing Social Factors - Nadine Gasman and Maxine Hart (National Child Health Programme, Mexico)
2. People’s Charter for Health: Andrew Chetley (UK)
3. Do International Organisations Improve Health?: Politics of Health - P. V. R. Bhaskar Rao (People for Econom-ical and Effective Medicare, India); Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: Better than Adjustment? - Marjan Stoffers (WEMOS, Netherlands) and David Woodward (MEDACT and WHO, UK)
4. Health in Transitional Economies: Women’s Health in Transitional Economies - Galina Vladimirova, Galina Verchinina and Vladimir Spriin (Women’s Health in Transitional Economies, Russia); Women’s Health in Transitional Economies - Lidiya Grinkevych (Environ-mental NGO “MAMA-86”, Ukraine; Is Primary Health Care a State Responsi-bility? - Colin McCord (Columbia University, USA)
5. NGOs as Agents Of Change?: Bert De Belder (Medical Aid for the Third World, Belgium); Lidia Simbertseva (NGO Women’s Health in St. Petersburg, Russia)
6. Participatory Democracy in Planning Health Services: Challenges for Health in the 21st Century - Telge Sirimal and Wijitha Peiris (Alternative Community Health Action (ACHA), Sri Lanka); Participatory Democracy in Policy Decisions - Ratnakar Adhikari (Forum for Protection of Public Interest (PRO PUBLIC), Nepal); Participatory Democ-racy and Delivery of Municipal Health Services in Porte Allegre - Lucio Barcelos (Municipality of Porte Allegre, Brazil); Local Self Governance - People’s Participation and Initiatives In Policy Development and Decisions - Sarba Raj Khadka (Rural Reconstruction, Nepal); Community Health: People Taking Care of their Health - Azam Ali (Public Private Partnership (PPP), Northern Ireland Health and Social Services (NICARE), Bangladesh); Decentralisation and Health Care - N.H. Antia (FRCH) and Joy Elamon (India)
7. Health and Safety at Work: Death at Work in the Belgian Steel Industry - Celine Mendels - Flandre (Medicine for the People, Belgium); Occupational Safety and Health and Human Rights - Helal Uddin and A.F.M. Imamuddin (Coordinating Council for Human Rights in Bangladesh (CCHRB), Bangladesh); Survey Report Presentation on Tannery Workers - Shishir Morol and Philip Gain (Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD), Bangladesh); Effects of Hazardous Mining Processes on Health of Mining Workers - Emily Ilag (Institute of Occupational Health and Safety Development (IOHSAD), Philippines)
8. Violence Against Women: Health Implications of Violence Against Women - Nasreen Huq (Naripokkho, Bangladesh); Female Genital Mutilation - Hasan Abdel Assi (International Federation of Medical Students (IFMSA), Sudan); Female Genital Mutilation and the Struggle for Women’s Health - Kadidia Aoudou Sidibe (AMSOPT, Mali); Acid Burn Victims - Creszenzo D’Onotria (Italy)
9. Social Mobilisation for Children’s and Women’s Health: Social Mobilisation: Promoting the First Food - Sarah Amin (Malaysia), Denise Arcoverde (Brazil), Lakshmi Menon (India) (World Alliance for Breasfeeding Action (WABA))
10. HIV/AIDS: A Feminist Exploration: Uncommon Questions: An Alternative Feminist Exploration of AIDS - Donna Chiarelli and Jennifer Stonier (Women’s Health Interaction (WHI), Canada) and Farida Akhter (Policy Research for Development Alternatives (UBINIG), Bangladesh)
11. Globalisation Issues: Lowering the Unit Cost of Development - International and National Responsibility - Gauri Pradhan (Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN) and NGO Federation, Nepal); Is Globalisation Good for Health? - Umaiyeh Khammash (Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC)/UNRWA), Palestine); Globalisation, Public Health and the Feminisation of Poverty - Charles Mutasa (Institute of Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe); David Legge (School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia); B. Ekbal (Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP), India); Globalisation in Small Island Countries - Robert V. Bishop (Palau Community Action Agency - National IESL Project, Palau)
12. Poverty and Poor Health: Poverty: Its Implication for Health - Livinus E. Okwume (Community Development Initiative (CDI), Nigeria); Health Priorities for Developing Countries: A Case Of Uganda - Rose Nakityo and Anne Byamukama (Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC), Uganda); Poverty, Health and the Role of Organisations in Health Improvement - Jerome Teelucksingh (Association for the Transformation of Males, Trinidad and Tobago); Understanding Poverty - Multi-Dimensional Aspects - Mostaq Ahmed (Association for Social Advancement (ASA), Bangladesh); Adibashi’s Access to Modern Health Care: Problems and Recommendations - Rezaul Karim Hashimi (FFDA, Bangla-desh) and Laila Parveen (FIRM, Bangladesh)
13. TB: The DOTS Debate: Tuberculosis Control in Difficult/Remote Areas - Ram Babu Bhatt (Rajasthan Voluntary Health Association, India); Alex Ivanov (Russia); Thelma Narayan (Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA), India); DOTS, Modified DOTS or What Else? - S.A. Hafiz (Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Bangladesh); TB Spread-Out Among Migrant/Day Labourers - Yoshi Ikezumi (Japan)
14. Community Health Workers: Community Health Workers in Northeast Brasil: A Case Study of Poca de ONCA - Ani Wihbey, Maria Ivania- Cesar de Oliviera and Maria Vitoria Santos (Project Coruja, Brazil); Selvi (India); Abhay Shukla (CEHAT, India)
15. Community Development and People’s Health: Community Development to Enable People’s Health - Edwina Pereira (International Services Association (INSA), India); Self-Help Promotion for Health: How Villagers Select, Arrange and Use Primary Health Care Services Close to their Homes - Adele Beerling (Chakaria Community Health, Project ICDDRB, Bangladesh); Experiences of Community Involvement and Participation for Improving Access to Health Care and Information - Mohammad Abdus Sabur (CARE, Bangladesh); Developing Appropriate Health Education Materials - Sarah Shannon and Davida Coady (Hesperian Foundation, USA)
16. Addressing STD/HIV/AIDS: Erlinda Palaganas (Health Action Information Network (HAIN), Philippines); High-Risk Behaviour, Vulnerability and HIV Situation in Bangladesh - Nizam Uddin Ahmed (National AIDS/STD Programme, UNDP, Bangladesh); Community Health Workers Caring for People with HIV/AIDS - B.H. Mhlauli and T.B. Sikrweqe (South Africa); Viral Roulette: Malaria, Blood and AIDS in Africa - Steve Minkin (Network for Infection Prevention (NIP), USA)
17. Health Research: Demystifying Research and Development - Ganga Kasaju and Mathura Shrestha (Alliance for Human Rights and Social Justice, ENHRN and RECPHEC, Nepal); Participatory Research Involving People as Principal Actors - Indira Shrestha (ENHR Hepal, Nepal); From Needs to Demands - Goran Sterky (Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Sweden)
18. Drugs and Alchohol Addiction: S.M. Idris (Consumers’ Association of Penang, Malaysia); David Werner (HealthWrights, USA); Gabriel Britto (National Addiction Centre, India); Substance and Drug Abuse - Sharmin Matin Chowdhury (Central Drug Treatment Centre, Bangladesh); Addressing Drug Issues Among Vietnamese Community in Australia - Frank Tesoriero (Flinders University, Australia)
19. Healthy Youth: Youth and Health - David Watsenya Watuwa and D.G. Wekono (BDYA-Youth/Children Project, Uganda); Development of Youth Friendly Health Services - Chanakya Jonnalagadda (International Federation of Medical Students (IFMSA), South Africa); The Role of Youth in the Construction of Solidarity - Geovanni Atarihuana (Organisation of Caribbean and Latin American Students (OCLAE), Ecuador)
20. Children’s Right to Health: Save the Children Australia, Denmark, Sweden, UK, USA
21. Jubilee 2000: Debt, Health and the Future: Mike Rowson (MEDACT, UK), Ellen Verheul (WEMOS, Netherlands)
22. Access to Essential Drugs in the Global Marketplace: Increasing Access to Essential Drugs - Bas van der Heide (Netherlands), Pierre Chirac (France), Zafar Mirza (Pakistan), James Orbinski (Belgium), James Love (USA) and Mira Shiva (India) (Health Action International - Europe (HAI) in collaboration with MSF and CPT)

 

 

 
DAY THREE 6 DECEMBER 2000 (WEDNESDAY) 3.00-5.00pm

1. PHA Issue Paper: Medicalisation of Health Care and the Challenges of Health for All - David Sanders (International People’s Health Council (IPHC), South Africa)
2. People’s Charter for Health: Mohan Roa (India)
3. Health Sector Reform & Control of Tropical & Chronic Diseases: Control of Cholera Outbreak Through Hygiene Education and Environmental Sanitation in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania - Nyanyika Nehemiah Otto (Muhimbili Medical Centre, Tanzania); Community-directed treatment with Ivermectin in Onchocerciasis control - Martyn Sama (Institute of Medical Research and Study of Medicinal Plants, Cameroon); Health Sector Reform and Control of Tropical Diseases - Manidip Sarkar (Foundation of Rational Therapeutics (FORT), India); New Trends in Chronic Diseases and Management Approaches - Haider Abu Ghoush (Palestine); Epidemiology of Disease Control in Primary Health Care - T. Sunderaman (All India People’s Science Network, India); Role of International Agencies in Disease Control Programmmes - Ravi Narayan (Society for Community Health, Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA), India)
4. Community Involvement in Health Planning: Prue Borman (Health Care Consumer’s Association ACT, Australia); Community Involvement in Primary Care Development - Yvonne Dalziel (Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust, UK); A People-Generated Rural Community Health Care Financing Scheme in a Mindanao Village, Philippines - Bonifacio Gonzales Uy and Elizabeth Uriat (Council of Services for the Elderly, Institute of Primary Health Care of Davao Medical School Foundation and the Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines); Sustainable health care services - Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed (Health and Nutrition Development Society (HANDS), Pakistan)
5. Privatisation and National Health Services: UK National Health Service Contrasted with US System - Allyson Pollock, Yvonne Dalziel and Judith Cook (UK); A Universal Health System Under Siege: Australian Friends of Medicare - Fran Baum (Flinders University, Australia); Dave Hall (Public Service International Research Unit (PSIRU), UK)
6. Health Care Reform in Meso America: Local Innovative Experience in Health and Reform in Central America - Rene Perez (Nicaragua), Eduardo Espinoza (El Salvador), Giovanni Salazar (Guatemala) and Francoise Barton (Netherlands) (Rescate Project in Central America); 25 Years of the Regional Committee Work - Hugo Icu (Guatemala), Prasedez Polanco (Dominican Republic), Aida Peralta and Carolina Grajales (Mexico) (Regional Committee for the Promotion of Community Health)
7. Epilepsy Care: Our role in 'Epilepsy’ Care - Chanda Kulkarni (St. John's Medical College, India)
8. People’s Perceptions and the Quality of Rural Health: Public Sector Health Care Services in Rural Bangladesh: People's View on That - Syed Azizur Rahman (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK); Awareness of Rural and Semi-Urban Population- Health and Health Related Issues - Frida Fule Pederson (CEPIC KUMBA, Cameroon); Primary Health Care in remote areas - Outreach health programme - Health bulletin - audio visual media - Song Za Kam (Catholic Lay Mission, Myanmar); Role of Rural Health Workers (VHA) and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) for Rural Health Services - Mostaque Ahmed (Association for Social Advancement (ASA), Bangladesh); Not for the ‘Faint-Hearted’ Guide to Importing a Programme: Te Wana Quality Programme Experience - Jenni Moore and Alayna Watene (Healthcare Aotearoa, New Zealand)
9. Health Sector Reform, Financing and Cost Recovery: Health Sector Reform in Armenia/Yemen and Sustainable Financing for the Poor and Marginalised - Margarita Hakobyan (Armenia) and Souad Al Hibshi (Yemen) (Oxfam GB); Health Care Financing for a Productive Life - Mohammad Abdus Sabur (Forum on Health Care Financing and Organisation, Bangladesh); Challenge for Health for All and National Budgets - Sunny Akuopha (Agence Africaine pour le Development Communal, Mali); GK’s Urban Health Insurance: Affordable Model for the Poor - Mohib Ullah Khondoker (Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK), Bangladesh); The Philippine Health Sector Reform Agenda (HSRA): What Reforms? Whose Agenda? - Jocelyn Santos- Andamo (Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD), Philippines; RAP in Egypt - Allah Shukrallah (Egypt); Ultrasound - A Cost Effective and Affordable Tool in Primary Health Care: Experience of Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital - Aref Masud (Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Bangladesh)
10. The Code, Companies and Babies: Protecting breastfeeding through the International Code and Resolutions - Code Monitoring - Sita Letchmi (International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), Malaysia)
11. Health Care for Women: Reproductive Sexual Health: ICPD + 6 - Manoranjan Mishra (Family Planning Association of India Bhubaneswar Branch, India); Making Efforts towards Comprehensive Health for Women - Smita Bajpai (Center for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA), India); Strategies to Increase Access to Abortion Services - Mwaphefo Esther Kellhapile (Women’s Health Project, South Africa); Problems Regarding Reproductive Rights and Drugs in Aceh - Nurhasdiana (MATAHARI, Indonesia); Comprehensive Reproduction Health Care - People’s Perspective & Its Management - Julia Ahmed (Bangladesh Women’s Health Coalition (BWHC), Bangladesh)
12. Tobacco Control: Shaping the Philanthropic Response to Tobacco in Developing Countries - Anthony So (Rockefeller Foundation, USA); Corporate Globalisation, Civic Globalisation and Tobacco: Trade, Investment and North-South NGO Alliances - Rob Weissman (Rockefeller Foundation, USA); The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and The Framework Convention Alliance - Belinda Hughes (Action on Smoking and Health Foundation, Thailand); Setting Up a Health Promotion Foundation - Rob Moodie (Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Australia); Poverty and Tobacco Use and Poverty, Tobacco and Bangladesh’s Successes in Tobacco Control - Saifuddin Ahmed and Tania Amir (Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance, Bangladesh)
13. Abuse of Oestrogen Drugs: Polycystic Ovaries - S. Mohamed Jaffar Sadiq (Engineer Trust, India)
14. Unnecessary Injections: Vivian Wyatt (UK)
15. People-Oriented Education for Healthcare Professionals: Multi-Dimensional Healthcare Model to Promote Holistic Education for Key Players - K.R. Sethuraman (Educators for Quality Update of Indian Physicians (EQUIP); Role of Health Sciences Students in Curriculum Reform - Boshi Mohala (Rural Support Network, South Africa); Samia Holeleh (Birzeit University, Palestine); G.P. Dutta (India); Facilitating Community-Based Education - Robin Joubert (Natal Institute of Community Health Education, South Africa); Staffan Bergstrom (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
16. Unsafe Drugs: German Drugs: Made in Europe, Not Safe for the World - Christiane Fischer (BUKO Pharma-Kampagne, Germany)
17. Struggle for Community Control II: Liberation Medicine - Lanny Smith (Doctors for Global Health, USA); Primary Health Care or Health in People’s Hands? - Maria Luisa Lopez, Gabriel Garcia, Aida Peralta (National Movement of Popular Health, Mexico)
18. Ways of Seeing Health: Defining Health - Ways of Seeing and Ways of Doing Health and Health Care - N. D. Emmel (Nuffield Institute for Health, UK); Aboriginal Perspective on Health - Irene Fisher (Jawayn Association, Northern Territory, Australia)
19. Access to Essential Drugs in the Global Marketplace: Increasing Access to Essential Drugs and TRIPS - Bas van der Heide (Netherlands), Pierre Chirac (France), Zafar Mirza (Pakistan), Mira Shiva (India) (Health Action International (HAI) - Europe in collaboration with MSF); Globalisation, WTO, Patents and Pharmaceuticals - Amit Sen Gupta (All India People’s Science Network (AIPSN), India)

 

 

 
DAY FOUR 7 DECEMBER 2000 (THURSDAY) 3.00-5.00pm

20. PHA Issue Papers: Communication as if People Mattered: Adapting Health Promotion and Social Action to the Global Imbalances of the 21st Century - David Werner (Healthwrights, USA); The Environment Crisis: Threats to Health and Ways Forward - Niclas Hällström (Dag Hammarskjöd Foundation, Sweden)
21. People’s Charter for Health: Nadine Gasman (Mexico)
22. Health, Environment and Social Justice: Robin Stott (MEDACT, UK); Environment and Life: Denouncing the Situation of San Luis, Maranhao - Ani Wihbey, Maria Ivania Cesar de Oliveira and Maria Vitoria Santos (Project Coruja, San Luis, Maranhao, Brazil); Mega Dams, Mega Industries and Projects: Their Impact on Health and Environment - Gopal Sivakoti Chintan (INHURED International, Nepal); Healthy Community: The Cuban Experience - Manuel Coipel and Ramon Collado (Project San Isidro, Old Havana, Cuba)
23. Agriculture and Health:(Pesticides and Chemicals) - Sarder Jahangir Hossain (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Bangladesh; Agriculture and Health - M.A. Hakim (Eco-Village, Bangladesh) and Farhad Mazhar (Policy Research for Development Alternatives (UBINIG), Bangladesh)
24. Health in Disasters, Conflict and Emergency Situations: Villages can Manage Emergencies Themselves: Building a Chain of Survival in Mine Affected Areas - Odd Edvardsen (Tromsoe Mine Victim Resource Center (TMC), Norway); Roohullah Shabon (Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, Afghanistan); Umaiyeh Khammash (Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC), Palestine); Peter Walker (East Timor); Patricia Nickson (AFRI-CAN, UK); Health Care for Earth-quake Survivors - Prema Gopalan (India); Pacific Emerging Issues - Losena T. Salabula (Pacific Concerns Resource Centre, Fiji)
25. Food: Access and Right to Food - Anuradha Mittal (Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy, USA); The Links between Family Food Production, Nutrition and Health Participatory Learning and Action Approach to Preventive Health Delivery - Robert V. Bishop (Palau Community Action Agency - National IESL Project, Palau); Maintaining Food Security - Peni Naikaudra Qioniwasa (National Food and Nutrition Centre, Fiji)
26. Medicinal Plants and Knowledge Systems: Medicinal Plants in Agro Forestry Systems - E S Mahendrarajah (Gnanammah Integrated Research Farm, Sri Lanka); Traditional Knowledge and Wisdom Related to Health: Relevance in the Present Day World - Buddhadeb Chaudhuri (Calcutta University and CARID, India); Acknowledgement Programmes about Health Services - Madagammadde Gedara Karlin Nona (Rajarata Jana Prabodanee Foundation, Sri Lanka)
27. Bio-Ethics: Human Genetic Diversity Research: The China Syndrome - Julie Delahanty (Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), Canada; Health Ethics, Bio-Ethics And Malpractice - Arjun Karki (Kathmandu University, Nepal); Ethical Issue in Asian Medical Setting Regarding Organ Transplants - Hitomi Saeki (Medical Health Science University, Hokkaido, Japan); Equity, Social Justice and Bioethics - Aruna Upreti (CEDPA, Nepal)
28. Regulatory Systems Development: Protection of the Health of the Poor - Indira Rana and Shanta Thapaliya (Tribhuvan University Law Campus, Nepal); Ensuring Transparency and Accountability of Providers - Shanta Lall Mulmi (RECPHEC and NGO Federation, Nepal); Participation of the People in Shaping Regulatory Systems - Kapil Shrestha (National Human Rights Commission, Nepal); Regulatory Systems Development on Community-Based Health Programme - Dinesh Lal Shrestha and Purna Shova Chitrakar (Srijana Vikash, Nepal)
29. Environment and Survival: Impact of Development Programmes on Health and Environment - Indu Aryal and Neeru Shrestha (ABC Nepal and Human Rights Concerned Trust, Nepal); Shrimp Industry: Issues and Concerns - Sk. Abul Hossain (UJON, Bangladesh) and Manik Sarker (Rupantor, Bangladesh); Air Pollution - Hussain Imam (SEAFS, Bangladesh) and S. Mahbubul Alam (WBB, Bangladesh)
30. Drug Donations and Access to Essential Drugs: Implementation of Essential Drugs Concept in Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Tajikistan - Natalia Cebotarenco (Association Drugs, Moldova); Pharmaceutical Policy - Amitava Guha (India)
31. Privatisation: Privatisation of Health Care - Chan Chee Khoon (Citizen's Health Initiatives, Malaysia); Privatisation and Health - Natasha Shawareb (Jordanian Women’s Development Society, Jordan); Mie Branders (Medicine for the People, Belgium); Privatisation and Corporatisation of Healthcare - Cecilia Lapitan (Council for Health and Development (CHD), Philippines); Privatisation: A Deadly Prescription Detrimental to People’s Health and a Burden to Health Workers - Emma Manuel (Alliance of Health Workers (AHW), Philippines): Health Workers and Users Movement - Luis Arias and Maria Luisa Lopez (Mexico)
32. Nutrition and Health: Agro-Based Nutrition - Rauno Laitalainen and Nazrul Islam (CERP (Coastal Embankment Rehabilitation Project), Bangladesh); Strategy of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the Primary Health Care in Fiji - Jimaima Lako (Fiji Council of Social Services (FCSS), Fiji); Trends in Nutritional Status in Children - Nasreen Huq (Helen Keller International, Bangladesh)
33. Water Pollution and Health Consequences: Arsenic Problem in Bangladesh - Jamal Anwar (SOS Arsenic, France); Water Pollution: Arsenic Contamination in Ground Water - J.K. Baral and Dipak Kumar Biswas (PROSHIKA, Bangladesh); Protecting Water Sources from Pollution - Mihir C. Biswas (POROSH, Bangladesh)
34. Medical Technology and Environmental Protection: Dangerous Technology and Health Products - Renu Rajbhandari (WOREC, Nepal); Treatment of Medical Waste - Mohidul Haq Khan and Akhteruzzaman (SEED, Bangladesh)
35. A Critique of Population Policy and Programme: Sathyamala and Mohan Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
36. Globalisation, Health and Life: Experiences from Latin America: Health and Nutrition Education in Nicaragua - Reyna Cecilia Cordero (Christian Medical Action), Blanca Cajina (Boaco Community Health Program), Denise Van Wessen (Soy Nicaragua) (Nicaragua); The Cuenca Forum on People’s Health - Geovanni Atarihuana (Organisation of Caribbean and Latin American Students (OCLAE), Ecuador)
37. Men’s Health: Kevin Lafferty (Scotland)
38. Consumer Reports on Medicine and Access to Essential Drugs: Consumer Reports on Medicine - Lena Westin and Jan Albinson (Association for Medicines and Health (KILEN), Sweden); People’s Access to Drugs - Zahed Md. Masud (Health Action Forum (HAF), Bangladesh)

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