EQUINET Africa
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EQUINET Africa
Equinet Secretariat
Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC)
Box CY2720, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe
Tel: +263 4 705108/708835
Fax: +263 4 737220
Email: admin@equinetafrica.org
Website: http://www.equinetafrica.org
Description
EQUINET, the Regional Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa, is a network of professionals, civil society members, policy makers and state officials who came together as an equity catalyst to promote the values of equity and social justice in health. EQUINET activities are coordinated and managed through Training and Research Support Centre, a non profit institution headquartered in Zimbabwe that carries out health and social policy work at national, regional and international level.
EQUINET’s critical areas of focus include understanding equity in health; promoting equity values in policy and practice, and using human rights as a tool for health equity; promoting health equity in economic and trade policy; understanding links between poverty, deprivation and health equity and improving household resources for health; informing and providing options for equitable health services; effective and participatory approaches to confronting inequity and attrition in health personnel; fair financing, including equitable allocation of health resources and equity in the mix of public and private health services; equity enhancing features of governance and participation in health systems; and monitoring and measurement and policy analysis in support of health equity.
EQUINET’s partners include the SADC Health Sector, the SADC Directorate of Social Development and Special Programs, the SADC HIV/AIDS Program and the SADC Parliamentary Forum, Peoples Health Movement, Municipal Services Project, Global Equity Gauge Alliance, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, Medact (UK), University of Saskatchewan Canada, African Health Research Forum, World Health Organization, Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED), the International Society for Equity in Health, GEGA, the Dag Hammerskjold Foundation, Rockefeller among others.
EQUINET has received funding support or co-funded work and activities with IDRC (Canada); SDC (Switzerland); SIDA (Sweden); Rockefeller Foundation; Oxfam (GB); DfID; Dag Hammerskold Foundation; UNAIDS; WHO-Afro; WHO-EIP; Global Equity; and Gauge Alliance.
