Access to health in the MENA: towards a right-based approach
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to strain the healthcare system and the provision of health services worldwide, in the MENA region particularly, it has shed light on the structural challenges of the healthcare systems.
The latter are often fragmented with a multiplicity of institutions, schemes, services, and financing sources, with an increased tendency to privatisation, leading to unequal access to healthcare benefits and coverage and contributing to perpetuating inequalities and exclusion. This webinar aims to discuss access to healthcare in the region from a human-right based perspective. It will reflect on various contexts and systemic challenges countries in the region are facing in the health sector, and explore how to push forward the enactment of universal and inclusive healthcare systems for all throughout the life cycle.
With:
Ms Miriam Younes (researcher and co-founder of Karma Association)
Prof. Hassan Zaky (American University of Cairo, Egypt)
Ms Manar Marzouk (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, COVID-19 International Modelling Consortium)
The webinar will be moderated by Ms Sobhiya Najjar
Date and time: Tuesday 16 February 2021 at 11am (Lebanon time)
The webinar will be hosted on zoom. The registration link will be sent via email.
To register and submit your questions to the panelists, please fill in this form before 12 February 2020:
