PROGRAM FORMAT

A balance between talks, workshops, presentations, case studies and onsite visits will give enough opportunity to interact and establish network contacts with training facilitators and fellow participants. The small group setting will also give numerous occasions to use tools presented in your professional work.

About the Program: Experts from different organisations and institutions together with a wide range of participants will create a dynamic and different learning setting. The program will cover:

• The basic concept of Health and Human Rights and the Right to Health
• Application of the Human Rights Framework to Public Health Policies and Programs
• How to use the UN mechanism, Shadow Reports, Special Procedures
• How to use the Inter American System
• Other topics that will be touched in relation with the Right to Health:
  • International Trade Agreements and medicines
  • HIV/AIDS and Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
  • Sexual and Reproductive Rights
  • Domestic Violence
  • Social Exclusion, discrimination and minorities
  • Mental Health
  • Maternal Mortality
  • Social determinants to the right to health
  • The Dilemma of Dual Loyalty

Medium of course: Spanish with some course material in English

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