Be-cause health: links

Other platform initiatives in Belgium

Action Platform Health and Solidarity (French, Dutch): The Action Platform Health and Solidarity is an initiative by the two Belgian big trade unions and mutual health organisations, several associations and networks, NGOs and academics. They join forces to warn for the consequences of the neoliberal politics in the social and the healthcare field. They plead for a solidarity health and well-fare politics and health as a universal right for all.
Belgian Platform Community Health Insurance and Mutual Health Organisations (MASMUT): The Belgian Platform Community Health Insurance / Mutual Health Organisations brings together representatives from NGOs, mutual health organisations, rechearch institutes and the Belgian development cooperation. Its goal is to promote a cooperation between the member organisations and to take advantage of their complementarity to reinforce the relevance and the efficiency of the micro insurance health systems and the mutual health organisations in the South.
Belgian Platform on Tropical Animal Health and Production (Be-Troplive): Be-troplive is an informal and multidisciplinary platform, which is open to institutional or individual members involved in tropical animal health and production activities.
Belgian Platform on Population and Development: The Belgian Platform on Population and Development is an initiative of the Belgian civil society. It brings together a wide range of persons and organisations from different communities of the country: experts on population or on reproductive health from the academical world or from NGOs, representatives from research institutes and NGOs. Furthermore, various observers from administrations and federal and regional cabinets as well as from international organisations do a very close follow-up of the activities of the Platform.
COOPAMI: COOPAMI is a cooperation platform which aims to develop and modernize social security systems. It focuses its activities on three areas : Cooperation, Exchanges, and Training.
Strengthening Health Systems: The aim of this website is to share expertise and experience on health care systems with policy makers, managers of health services, health care providers and health system researchers. The network is funded by the Belgian government (Direction General for Development Cooperation).
Working Group HIV/AIDS: Certain NGOs which are active in the field of development cooperation and Sensoa have launched this initiative for an informal Working Group on AIDS in the autumn of 2003. This initiative is especially the result from the need of more structural exchange of information and experiences on the issue of AIDS in the framework of development cooperation.

Affiliated networks abroad

International organisations

European and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership: The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) was created in 2003 as a European response to the global health crisis caused by the three main poverty-related diseases of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. These diseases account for over 6 million deaths each year, and the numbers are growing. Sub-Saharan Africa is the world's worst-affected region where besides ravaging lives, they impede development and cause poverty.
Mission
EDCTP aims to accelerate the development of new or improved drugs, vaccines and microbicides against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, with a focus on phase II and III clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa.
Global Health Workforce Alliance: The Global Health Workforce Alliance (The Alliance) was created in 2006 as a common platform for action to address the crisis. The Alliance is a partnership of national governments, civil society, international agencies, finance institutions, researchers, educators and professional associations dedicated to identifying, implementing and advocating for solutions.
Marie Stopes International: Marie Stopes International is a not-for-profit sexual and reproductive health (SRH) organisation that uses modern business methods to achieve the social goal of preventing unintended pregnancies and unplanned births in 43 countries worldwide.
Medicus Mundi International: Medicus Mundi International is a network of private not-for-profit organisations working in the field of international health cooperation and advocacy.
People's Health Movement: The People´s Health Movement (PHM) has its roots deep in the grassroots people's movement and owes its genesis to many health networks and activists who have been concerned by the growing inequities in health over the last 25 years. The PHM calls for a revitalisation of the principles of the Alma-Ata Declaration which promised Health for All by the year 2000 and complete revision of international and domestic policy that has shown to impact negatively on health status and systems.
Link to the Charter of the movement (People’s Charter for Health)
UNAIDS: Common Programme of the United Nations on AIDS
World Health Organisation: WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.