AIFO
supports the Women's Access to Health campaign. From 2003 to 2005 the
Coordination Office of Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights
(WGNRR) coordinates the Women's Access to Health Campaign, in close
collaboration with the People's Health Movement. The
core activities are elaborated around, but not restricted to May 28,
International Day of Action for Womens Health. The Coordination
Office will be engaged in activities, meetings and conferences
etc. that are organised around the campaign during the 3-year period.
The campaign participants will regularly receive updates. The
reports/articles they send to the Coordination Office will be sent
around to other supporters, in order to stimulate and inform each
other.
At the WGNRR
website you can sign the campaign and find other related
materials regarding this campaign. The campaign releases an annual
Call for Action.
Some of the planned activities of
members and supporters of WGNRR’s Women’s Access to Health
Campaign for the International Day of Action for Women’s Health (28
May
2005).
In the Call
For Action for supporting this campaign on 28 May 2004, the
demands raised were:
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Governments
take responsibility for women's health. Health is a
human right and must be guaranteed by the State. Women's sexual
and reproductive rights must be included in all health policies
and women must be given opportunity to participate in all levels
of planning, implementation and monitoring.
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Governments
develop more gender sensitive policies. Governments
must put in place gender assessment instruments to alert them on
the impact of new policies on women's right to health. Government
officials must be trained on gender issues and gender sensitivity.
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Health
budgets must be increased with specifically earmarked budgets for
women's sexual and reproductive health. To enable and
support this increase, donor countries, the World Bank and the IMF
must drop all debts of developing countries. Put people first, not
profit!
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Quality
of health-care and services improved and prioritized over targets.
Governments must put in place a process - in which women should
participate - to monitor the quality of health services and the
extent to which the services and service providers comply with
women's needs.
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Health
is recognized in a holistic and integrated manner -
taking into account socio-economical and political factors and
determinants of health - by governments, international
institutions, health-care providers and others. Women's needs must
be addressed holistically and not limited to biomedical
health-care services.
Download
Call for Action 2003 in PDF (Acrobat) version (604 KB)
