Mutual learning to build greater accountability in the delivery of health and nutrition services- Francesca Feruglio, IDS
A recent online workshop of practitioners in South Asia (conducted on March 16-17) highlighted key challenges and learnings on community-led initiatives to hold service providers accountable for the delivery of health and nutrition services. The two day online workshop run by IDS and COPASAH last week as part of Making All Voices Count brought together a group participants from […]
‘Mutual-learning at accountability’s cutting edge – a practitioners’ consultation on improving Health and Nutrition services in South Asia’- Day 1-March 16, 2016 Discussion Snapshot
‘Mutual-learning at accountability’s cutting edge – a practitioners’ consultation on improving Health and Nutrition services in South Asia’* SUMMARY OF DAY 1 (March 16, 2016) of DISCUSSION on Social Accountability for Health and Nutrition in South Asia: Relation with service providers Topics covered in the online discussion were:1. Community participation and engagement To the question ‘how […]
How to Empower People and save babies…..Courtney Tolmie, Transparency for Development blog post
The Transparency for Development project, is attempting to search answers to some questions like How Can citizens and communities fill an important gap in improving health services and outcomes? How can people be empowered and supported to hold their doctors, midwives, and governments accountable for better health care? The Transparency for Development initiative is sharing some of the […]
Zika virus, human rights, gender and disability: Opportunities to ‘build back better’ health and social systems-Laura Dean
Laura Dean*, Kate Hawkins, Rachel Tolhurst, Eleanor Macpherson, Lee Haines, Daniela Ferreira, Angela Obasi and Sally Theobald Zika is a disease exacerbated by poverty – risk is not spread uniformly – those who already face extreme social marginalisation are more vulnerable. If you live in a poor area, such as a Favela; Ghetto etc., with […]
Priority Setting for Universal Health Coverage : The Civil Society Perspecive-Robinah (UNHCO)
The Prince Mahidol Award Foundation (PMAF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) hosted the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2016 on “Priority Setting for Universal Health Coverage from 26th-31st January 2016 at the Bangkok Convention Centre at Central World in Bangkok, Thailand. The 2016 conference focused on priority setting in the context of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) […]
Unethical cancer trials in India may have killed 254 women_Aarefa Johari (Scroll)
Cervical cancer is recognised as one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths among Indian women, killing an average of 72,000 women every year. Since 1997, however, at least 254 such deaths may have occurred because Indian women from lower-income groups were misinformed and not given basic pre-cancer screening tests even as they participated in research studies […]
Upholding women’s human rights essential to Zika response- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Upholding women’s human rights is essential if the response to the Zika health emergency is to be effective, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has said in wake of spread of Zika virus. Adding that laws and policies that restrict access to sexual and reproductive health services in contravention of international […]
COPASAH Convener opines
The month of September saw the formal adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by the global community. For the next fifteen years, the 17 SDGs will set the global development agenda and its targets where the development indicators will constitute the milestones and roadmap towards sustainable development. There has been a considerable buzz around […]
Denial of Maternal Health Rights in State Run Facilities in Jharkhand (India)
In spite of a series of maternal health facilities and schemes listed out by the Indian Government, women refrain from getting deliveries conducted at the state run health facilitates due to negative experiences of abuse and neglect by health service providers, seen with overcharging and out of pocket expenditure for services that are offered for free. A video developed by community […]
Dalit Manual Scavengers and THAMATE’s efforts for the Rights of the Community-Community Voice from Karnataka( India)
Manual Scavenging in Karnataka and THAMATEIt is decades since the inhuman practice of manual scavenging is officially banned in India. However manual scavenging continues disgracefully in several states. The latest Socio-Economic Caste Census data released by Government of India in July 2015 highlights that 1, 80, 657 households are engaged in the degrading work of […]