‘Budget Bites’ maiden newsletter of Africa Health Budget Network launched
Africa Health Budget Network has Launched its maiden edition of newsletter ‘BUDGET BITES’.The newsletter, BUDGET BITES contains news and information on health budget from across Africa and news on health budgets, success stories from Kenya, and stories on other themes. Africa Health Budget Network is a group of African and global organizations and individuals already using […]
Global Health Watch report of the People’s Health Movement network
Updates of COPASAH South Asia Innovative Use of Technologies (ICTs) for Community Monitoring to Enhance Health Rights of the Community
COPASAH – ICT Capacity Building Workshop, January 8-10, 2015 – Bhopal Brief Summary of the capacity building workshop In the COPASAH South Asia ‘Innovative Use of ICTs for Community Based Monitoring in Health’ capacity building workshop conducted from Jan 8 – 10, 2015, COPASAH groups (social media) in India of community practitioners including that of Karnataka, […]
‘Camp Of Wrongs’ Fact finding report on sterilization deaths in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh
Indian state of Chhattisgarh recently witnessed the tragic loss of 13 young women during sterilization surgeries conducted in one of the routine female sterilization camps held on November 8 2014 in the Takhatpur block of Bilaspur district of the state. News reports outlined that Eighty-three surgeries were conducted by one surgeon in about six hours in the […]
Promoting Accountability for Maternal Health through Report Card
This article highlights experiences from two blocks of Dahod district, Gujarat, India and delineates how Social Accountability mechanisms on quality of maternal health such as maternal health monitoring tools and Village Health and Nutrition Day monitoring check lists can increase the awareness of community women on maternal health and health entitlements. Read More
Community Action in Health Service Delivery in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan
The article, Community Action in Health Service Delivery in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan authored by Gulbaz Aki Khan, encapsulates experiences of a pilot project initiated in the year 1999 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, which showed the way for the formation of Primary Care Management Committee with community volunteers as well as healthcare providers as […]
COPASAH – South Asia Innovative Use of Technologies (ICTs) for Community Monitoring to Enhance Health Rights of the Community (Workshop)
COPASAH – South Asia Innovative Use of Technologies (ICTs) for Community Monitoring to Enhance Health Rights of the Community (Workshop) Date: January 8, 9 & 10, 2015 Venue: Bhopal No of participants: 30 Context Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) is a global network of practitioners with a common interest and passion for […]
Reclaiming Public Health through Community based Monitoring: Paper (on behalf of Municipal Services Project)
COPASAH communication hub, is sharing a paper, Reclaiming Public Health through Community based Monitoring, published as part of Municipal Services Project on request of Madeleine Bélanger Dumontier, Project Manager for Municipal Services Project. The paper is on Community Based Monitoring and Planning in Health care delivery services. It draws upon international experiences and in particular experiences […]
COPASAH virtual forum: Engaging marginalized communities in the process of accountability in health: challenges and lessons learned -Walter Flores
COPASAH communication hub, is sharing the information on virtual forum with you on behalf of Walter Flores Through the collaboration between COPASAH and GPSA, Walter Flores is facilitating a virtual forum entitled: “Engaging Marginalized Communities in the Process of Accountability in Health: Challenges and lessons learned”. The description of the forum is as follows: In many […]
GLOBAL HEALTH WATCH 4 – Alternative World Health Report (Released)
GLOBAL HEALTH WATCH 4 Alternative World Health Report released This Report Underlines the need to reorient global governance,build public health systems AMSTERDAM, CAPE TOWN, FRANKFURT, LONDON, MEXICO CITY, PENANG, 13 November 2014: With the world still battling the Ebola outbreak, the evidence of a clear link between the inability of affected countries to deal with the […]