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.