Day “what is changing in international cooperation in health?”

Barcelona, November 2011- day is framed in the “Right to health in Africa” campaign and want to deconstruct the negative image that we have on the African continent and explain, in the hands of experts, what is changing: the model of health cooperation, the role of stakeholders in health and political agendasthe economic crisis as well as the tools we have available to ensure the process of change.

“Campaign”Right to health in Africa”

“”Right to health in Africa” is a campaign of pharmacists Mundi and medicusmundi Catalunya. It’s an education campaign for the development and advocacy of three-year (2011-2013) which aims to give to know the status of health in the world and, in particular, in Africa, as well as the existence of agreements to be fulfilled and the necessary tools to do so, and on the other hand, show that there are successful initiatives in operation we must serve to improve the cooperation being carried from Catalonia, the Spanish State and Europe.

Day

The day will include the participation of numerous experts in the subject. We may share with the until recently Director of cooperation of the Ministry of health of Mozambique, Gertrudes Machatine, the work of the recipient countries of aid in health, with the investigator of the Group of African Studies of the Autonomous University of Madrid, José Luis of the flower, the evolution of the model of cooperationthe former director of the Secretariat of public health, innovation and intellectual property of who, Germán Velásquez, the role that should be the who in the leadership of the implementation of policies on global health or the activist of a German NGO, Sibylle Koenig, the role of the NGO and civil society in the official development assistance accountability.