Publications
Annual Report 2023
From enhanced protection against gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace in the Philippines, to first aid training for young people in Palestine, the deployment of mobile clinics in eastern DRC, and a royal decree banning the export of prohibited pesticides in Belgium, Viva Salud is very proud of its actions and victories in 2023!
Annual Report 2022
2022 heralded the start of a new five-year programme, new collaborations and new challenges for the right to health!
Despite ever-increasing pressure on health workers and human rights activists in their fight against injustice and for equality, our partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Palestine and the Philippines continue to amaze us with their resilience, fighting spirit and creativity.
Campaign dossier: Let's take care of our carers
All over the world, staff in the
healthcare workers labour in poor conditions.
But why is the healthcare sector in such a poor state?
Annual Report 2021
In 2021, we campaigned for universal access to coronavirus countermeasures and for the protection of activists threatened by the shrinking of democratic spaces around the world. Together with our partners in the Philippines, DR Congo, Palestine and internationally, we continued to strengthen people's right to health.
Final evaluations of the 2017–2021 joint programme
Viva Salud, KIYO and Solidagro have been collaborating on a joint programme co-financed by the Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation since 2017 and until the end of 2021. This programme was based on a rights-based approach and was active in 11 countries: Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Mali, Morocco, Palestine, the Philippines, DR Congo and Senegal. In 2021 and 2022, we conducted external evaluations for each of the objectives we had set ourselves. Below you will find the evaluation reports for our partner countries:
- Summary of assessments
- The report on Belgium
- Management's response to this report Belgium
- The report on Palestine
- Management's response to this Palestine report
- The report on the Philippines
- Management response to this report Philippines
- The report on the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Management's response to this report DR Congo
The rights-based approach
In collaboration with KIYO and Solidagro, two other Belgian NGOs with which Viva Salud ran a joint programme from 2017 to 2021, Viva Salud has developed a website dedicated to the rights-based approach.
We have also published all the information shared during the rights-based approach seminar that we organised with 13 other civil society organisations in December 2021.
Feature: Why public healthcare is superior
At a time when the private sector is gaining ground in healthcare systems, Viva Salud believes it is essential to defend and promote public healthcare. Why is this? In our new report, «Why public healthcare is better,» you will discover:
- Why privatisation triggers increased inequality in access to healthcare
- why privatisation is often more expensive in the long term
- Why privatisation is not more efficient
- why privatisation does not improve quality
- why privatisation leads to a decline in public control
- Why privatisation reduces the availability of healthcare professionals and worsens their working conditions
- what kind of healthcare system we want
- examples of successful civil society campaigns
Manual: Building a Movement for Health
We developed this interactive handbook in collaboration with the People's Movement for Health (PMH). Are you a student, expert or activist looking for inspiration and best practices from around the world? Then fasten your seatbelt and dive right into this handbook! The handbook is available in French, English and Spanish.
Practical guide to communicating about global justice and solidarity
This essential practical guide is intended for activists and campaign organisers. The way we communicate about issues influences how people think, feel and act in relation to those issues. It is time to abandon the negative vocabulary and imagery surrounding 'aid», »charity« and so-called »international development« and replace it with a different narrative, one built on solidarity and demanding social justice. This guide provides practical advice and principles you will need to identify the root causes of poverty and build global solidarity through your communications.
This guide is produced by Framing Matters for Health Poverty Action, in association with the Public Interest Research Centre and the following members of the Progressive Development Forum: Medact, NEON, PHM UK, PHM West and Central Africa, and Viva Salud.
What to do with a trillion dollars?
New research shows that governments lose more than a trillion dollars every year due to unjustified corporate benefits and massive tax fraud. This document, signed by Health Poverty Action, Mouvement Populaire pour la Santé and Viva Salud, will show you some alternative ways forward.
Empowerment: all together for health
Empowerment. You will find a wide range of definitions. Some associate it with self-confidence or autonomy, others with participation or mobilisation, and still others with liberation. But do you know what surprised us the most? These definitions very rarely mention «power». There is plenty of material to analyse.
Cooperation for sustainable development
What does it mean to be entitled to something? Find out what it means according to KIYO, Solidagro and Viva Salud.