No excuse for inaction on #HealthForAll if we are to deliver on #DevelopmentJustice in Asia Pacific
Channel: CNS
Date: 2021-03-21

#LIVE: workshop on "No excuse for inaction on #healthsecurity if we are to deliver on #developmentjustice in Asia Pacific." Co-hosted by CNS and partners, as part of Asia Pacific People's Forum for Sustainable Development, this workshop elaborates on why inequalities and injustices that were existing before the pandemic too, has failed us to prevent non-communicable diseases and communicable diseases. For instance, failure to prevent every new case of infectious diseases like TB and Covid-19 is defeating us on SDGs. This workshop also connects the dots between #corporatecapture and #righttohealth, as well as broader sustainable development.

Welcome and introduction: Shobha Shukla, founder Executive Director, CNS and coordinator, APCAT Media

Overview of goals for Asia Pacific and where-we-are on preventing NCDs, ending TB, Covid-19 (and cascading humanitarian crises): Prof Rishi Sethi

Health justice is rooted in development justice: Touch one Touch All: Kate Lappin, Regional Secretary of PSI Asia & Pacific

Corporate accountability: Big Tobacco, Big Food, Big Alcohol - a major threat to SDGs: Bobby Ramakant, CNS/ Asha Parivar/ Socialist Party (India)

Local actions for global goals: experiences from few cities or subnational areas in preventing industry interference, NCDs, TB and tobacco control, fighting Big Tobacco or other industries to advance health and justice
- Dr Tara Singh Bam, Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT) and Director for Asia Pacific, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Successes, challenges in ensuring Health For All in Asia Pacific
- Abia Akram, National Forum of Women With Disabilities, Pakistan
- Kay Thi Win, Apnsw Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
- Roshan John Joseph, MSF Access Campaign
- Aditya Bondyopadhyay lawyer and human rights activist
- Krishna Gautam, Ageing Nepal
- Kalpana Acharya, Health TV Online Nepal
- Tin Maung Htwe, Myanmar
- Nurul Islam Hasib, Bangladesh
- Padamraj Joshi, Nepal
- Rita Widiadana, Indonesia

more details: www.bit.ly/peoplesforumworkshop2

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