Southern African Regional Dialogue on Strategies for Accelerating and Unifying Campaigns for the Right to Health – March 2011

Atlas Studios, 33 Frost Avenue, Milpark, Johannesburg
25 & 26 March 2011

Day 1 – Friday, 25 March 2011

10:00am – 10:30am		Welcome & Introductions by Delegates: Nonkosi Khumalo, Chairperson Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)

10:30am – 11:30am		First Session
		1. Introduction: Why convene this meeting: Reflections of an AIDS activist: Is there a crisis of strategy and vision for the right to health? Is there an opportunity? – Mark Heywood, Executive Director, SECTION27. 2. South Africa’s constitutional right of access to health care services: What do we seek from the international community to help realise the right? Address by South African Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Gwen Ramokgopa

11:30am – 13:30pm		Second Session
		Looking up from the struggle: where are we now? Terrains, successes/reversals in and obstacles to realising the right to health at: Local level National level International/global level Identifying synergies, gaps and challenges across these levels Discussion facilitated by Dr Rene Lowenson, Training and Research Centre, TARSC, Zimbabwe/Equinet Round Table Discussion Summarised by Eric Friedman, O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, Georgetown

13:30pm – 14:30pm		LUNCH

14:30pm – 17:30pm		Third Session
		Changing the Equation: Are there campaigns that could catalyse a global movement for the rights to health? Panel Discussion facilitated by Jay Naidoo, Chairperson, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN): - Short inputs - On Sustainable & sufficient financing: Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) – ‘The GFATM’ Medico International - ‘funding mechanisms for resource innovation’ AIDS and Rights Alliance of Southern Africa (ARASA) – ‘the Financial Transactions Tax’ - On Current Campaigns for Health People’s Health Movement (PHM) – ‘Implementing the People’s Charter for Health’ Lessons from Brazil Keeping gender at the centre – Paula Donovan, World AIDS Campaign Summarised by Jonathan Berger, senior researcher, SECTION27

18:30pm – 21:00pm		DINNER
		Il Giardino Degli Ulivi, 44 Stanley Avenue, Milpark, Johannesburg

Day 2 – Saturday, 26 March 2011

9:00am – 10:00am:		Third Session
		Chairperson: Michaela Clayton Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) – National Health Council (CNS) Challenges to Fulfilling the right to health: Perspectives of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health – Anand Grover Question and answers

10.00am – 11.30am:		Debating a Framework Convention on Global Health:
		Arguments For: Adila Hassim, head of litigation, SECTION27 & Larry Gostin, Director O’Neill Institute Arguments Against: Stephen Lewis, World AIDS Campaign & Gorik Ooms, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp Moderated discussion

12.00-14.00		Building a Consensus on Action, Advocacy and Research
		Summarising the discussions: Where do we go from here? Facilitated by Adila Hassim & Anand Grover

14:00pm		LUNCH and DEPARTURE