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Thursday, 08 July 2010 10:32

AIDC's Communication Activist Training on the theme of Health kicks off on the 31st July with a seminar on National Health Insurance and the Struggle for HealthThe seminar is open to all concerned by the state of the health system in in South Africa - but space is limited so please do rsvp. 

 

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The Congress of SA Trade Unions (COSATU), Peoples Health  Movement (PHM), Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC) invite you to a strategy seminar :  

National Health Insurance 
 & the Struggle for Health

The government has promised a National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme that could ensure more equitable funding for healthcare. For the NHI to be more than another opportunity for the private sector to benefit from government subsides, civil society must campaign for a model of NHI that sees health funding directed to developing the public health system and ensuring access to decent health for all.  

What form should a progressive NHI take? 
What would constitute a decent National Health System?  

The seminar aims to lay the basis for a shared campaign strategy based on a progressive conceptualization of the National Health Insurance (NHI) and vision for a National Health System that meets the needs of all South Africans.  

  DATE: Saturday 31 July 2010
  TIME: 9h00 - 17h00
  VENUE: African Studies, UCT, Cape Town

SEMINAR PROGRAMME: "NHI & the struggle for health"

 

31 July 2010

 

           

9h00

ARRIVE & REGISTER

 

 

9h30

Welcome & Introduction

 

Brian Ashley, AIDC

 

 

 

10h00

Challenges of the current health system

 

Chair: COSATU

 

Size/scale of the health system crisis

David Sanders, PHM

 

 

Perspective of a community health worker

tbc

 

Perspective of professionals

Lydia Cairncross

 

Problems of implementation

Jamie Claasen, DoH

 

 

 

12h30

LUNCH

 

 

 

 

13h30

Towards a National Health Insurance

 

Chair: TAC

 

What role for the private and public sectors?

Tebogo Phadu, ANC

 

Government vision for the NHI

Dr Thulari, DoH, tbc

 

Trade Union vision for the NHI

Sheila Barsel, NEHAWU

 

 

 

15h00

TEA

 

 

 

 

15h30

Strategies for realizing a progressive national health system

 

Chair: AIDC

 

Building the right to health movement

Vuyiseka Dubula, TAC

 

Campaigning for a progressive NHI

Mercia Andrews, CDL

 

 

 

16h30

CLOSURE

 

 

 


 

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