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Health and human rights in South Africa: Implementation 2000+
Leslie London
2000-11-24

The University of Cape Town, the University of Natal and Physicians for Human Rights (USA) will be co-hosting a two-day conference intended to share experiences and boost the health sector towards putting into action measures needed to mainstream human rights in health.

Conference announcement

Following the TRC Special Hearings on the Health Sector in 1997, South African health professional organisations committed themselves to implementing a number of actions to promote human rights, thus preventing any potential for violations of human rights in health in future.

One of the central challenges has been to identify institutional mechanisms by which we could monitor and promote human rights in the health sector. How far have we come along this difficult road? What progress has been made in our training institutions, in our institutions for professional and ethical oversight? What have we learnt from the unfolding revelations of the Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme under Dr Wouter Basson?

The University of Cape Town, the University of Natal and Physicians for Human Rights (USA) will be co-hosting a two-day conference intended to share experiences and boost the health sector towards putting into action measures needed to mainstream human rights in health.

Venue: Elangeni Hotel, Durban

Dates: December 1st and 2nd 2000

Registration fee: R100

The conference is open to anyone interested in promoting human rights in the health sector. We anticipate the participation of approximately 100 people, including health professionals, human rights activists, government officials as well as representatives of statutory councils, professional bodies and training institutions.

The format will include formal inputs, plenary discussions and group work. The TRC Recommendations on the health sector will form a major part of the discussion, as will proposals for the way forward. The conference will also provide a platform for important developments on health and human rights to be shared with an appropriate audience.

The programme will be structured around a set of parallel workshops and some plenary sessions.

Workshop topics include:

* Training and Education in HHR: Initiatives and Gaps

* AVersion Project Presentation - health professional treatment of gays in the military

* Rights of Mental health care users

* Chemical and Biological Warfare

* Guidelines for health professionals facing Dual Loyalties

* District Surgeons: a case of dual loyalties

* Models for Health and Human rights monitoring in the health sector

* The TRC recommendations on health - where are we?

The conference will close with a working session aimed at operationalising strategies to promote human rights in health in South Africa.

If you are interested in participating in the conference, please contact Vanessa or Susan at Izani Events at 031 573 1421, email izani@iafrica.com or visit the conference website at http:www.uct.ac.za/conferences/hhr.

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