Global Health Watch

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Global Health Watch

• Mobilising the global health and social justice
  movement around an
• alternative World Health Report

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What would be alternative about GHW?

• Counter-balances the prevailing orthodoxy around
  market-based health care reforms shrinking
  public sectors and the commercialisation and
  commodification of health and health care
• Shift from technocratic, disease-based approaches
  towards approaches that recognise the importance
  of inclusive and equitable health systems and of
  multi-sectoral action
• Monitors the performance of key global health and
  health-related institutions
• Challenges the influence of commercial interests

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We also want the Watch to...

• Explicitly and concretely link health NGOs and
  networks with those concerned with environment,
  international finance, agriculture and food
  security, war, housing, land rights, conflict and
  education
• Create a more vibrant global civil society in
  health
• Strengthen the links between socially conscious
  non-government and civil society organisations
  across all regions of the world
• Provide a forum for magnifying the voice of the
  poor and vulnerable and those who advocate for
  them
• Provide positive alternatives

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Structure and content of the Global Health Watch

• Section A The politics and economics of health
  in the era of globalisation
• Section B Health care sector
• B1 Approaches to health and health care
• The design and effect of health systems
• Health sector reform
• The commercialisation and privatisation of health
  care
• The role of the state and government
• The role of technology and the medical-industry
  complex

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Structure and content of the report

• Section B Health care sector
• B2 Big pharma, access to medicines and IPRs
• B3 Human resources the lifeblood of health
  systems
• B4 Responding to HIV/AIDS
• B5 Gene technology and the attainment of health
  for all

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Structure and content of the report

• Section C Beyond the health sector
• Environment
• Militarism and conflict
• Water
• Land, agriculture and household food security
• Education
• Section D Special chapter(s) focussed on
  marginalised groups
• Indigenous peoples
• Disabled people

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Structure and content of the report
Section E Watching - WHO - World Bank - IMF -
Global Fund - WTO / GATS / regional and bilateral
trade agreements
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Structure and content of the report

• Section F Broad Recommendations and Strategies
  for Action
• Equity and social justice are main themes
  throughout.
• Gender will be mainstreamed.

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Audience
Global Health Watch
A variety of constituencies in the broader health
sector e.g. policy makers, health
providers, NGO workers
Advocacy targets e.g senior
technocrats and policymakers
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Ownership of report

• Inclusive of all NGOs and individuals who share
  the values implicit in the report
• Collaborative approach to production of chapters
• Recognition of all collaborators and contributors
• Actively seek out formal endorsement of report
• Freely available

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Coordination and management

• Secretariat PHM, Medact GEGA
• Editorial board
• Coordinating committee Regional representation
• Regional and local forums and networks
• Chapter based forums and networks

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Co-ordinating Committee

• West Africa Abdulrahman Sambo ( ATBU - Bauchi,
  Nigeria)
• Southern Africa David Sanders (Univ. of Cape
  Town)
• Australia Fran Baum (Flinders Univ, Australia)
• Caribbean Jerome Teelucksingh (PHM, Trinidad)
• Central Asia Barhyt Sarymsakova (School of
  Public Health, Kazakhstan)
• Eastern Europe Vuc Stamvolovic (Belgrade Medical
  School IPPNW)
• South America Armando de Negri (Latin American
  Social Medicine Assoc)
• Central America Maria Zuniga (IPHC)
• North America Paula Braveman (DAVE ---------
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• Middle East Samer Jabbour (Lebannon Univ.)
• SE Asia Amit Sen Gupta, Ravi Narayan (PHM,
  India)
• South Asia Chan Chee Koon (PHM, Citizen's Health
  Initiative in Malaysia)
• Western Europe Mayan Stoffers (WEMOS, The
  Nederlands)

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Update CHAPTERS

• Politics and Economics of Health Ron Labonte
  (North-South Inst), Amit Sen Gupta (PHM)
• Approaches to Health Alan Leather (PSI), Maureen
  Mackintosh (Open Univ.)
• Big Pharma Andy Grey (U. Natal), Ellen t Hoen
  (MSF)
• Human Resources Equinet and Medact
• HIV/AIDS Anonymous testimony
• Environment Greenpeace and LSHTM
• Militarism IPPNW
• Water MSP and WaterAid

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Update CHAPTERS

• Food Micky Chopra
• Indigenous People Health Unlimited and
  indigenous groups
• People with disabilities Pam Zimkin
• Watching WHO
• World Bank Sunil Deepak (AIFO), Bretton Wood
  project
• Aid Reality of Aid
• Debt Jubilee Research
• WTO and trade agreements MSF
• Strategies for Action Collaboration of all
  organisations and individuals involved

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Update ADVOCACY

• Website launched www.ghwatch.org
• Promotion at WHA, May 2004
• First edition of the GHW Newsletter, June 2004
• Campaigns Advisor to start June 2004
• Translation of all key documents and promotional
  material (i.e. website) to Spanish
• Promotion at coming events GEGA Conference,
  Equinet Conference (June 2004) and Europe Social
  Forum (Oct 2004)

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Global Health Watch

• For further information on how to get involved,
  please contact
• ghw_at_medact.org
• www.ghwatch.org