Health The retreat of governments from their role in social welfare and human development has led to serious declines in the availability of, and access to, basic services such as health. Health care is increasingly privatized and commoditized. In many places, access to health care is dependent on user fees, effectively removing access by the poorest. International trade agreements calling for increased deregulation and cross-border "harmonization" of health-related policies have further exacerbated this problem, threatening the sovereignty of individual states to shape their own health care services.
Inter Pares supports counterpart organizations in Canada and throughout the world to challenge these trends and to promote holistic approaches that address the relationship between health, poverty, and social conditions. We work with counterparts to advocate for integrated, accessible, publicly funded health systems. Our approach to women's health emphasizes women's equality, and assisting women to meet strategic needs in the context of confronting the social and economic conditions that undermine health and well-being. Inter Pares and our counterparts support the right of women to have access to community-based primary health services for themselves and their families. We promote reproductive rights and reproductive health, including the right to resist coercive population control programs. Inter Pares is working with women's groups to deal with the traumas inflicted on women by war and militarization, domestic and state violence against women. We are working with women's groups to analyze and address concerns such as unsafe pharmaceuticals, AIDS, workplace health and safety, nutrition, and maternal and child mortality.
Links to recent Inter Pares Bulletin articles related to this theme
Learning and Acting Together; Vol. 32, No. 1, February 2010
The Future is Now; Vol. 31, No. 4, November 2009
Bearing Witness: The Struggle for Democracy in Burma; Vol. 30, No. 3, September 2008
Economic Justice: Sharing the Collective Wealth; Volume 30, Number 2, June 2008
Health and Justice for All; Vol. 28, No. 4, November 2006
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