Theme 1

Strengthen Public Health Services and Ensure Right to Healthcare for All: There is an urgent need to reclaim Public health services through powerful community actions and bold rights-based struggles. Step inside (or Explore) stories of resistance and strategies to place a strong public health system at the heart of India’s future.

Theme 2

Regulate private healthcare and protect patient rights- “Privatised healthcare is running more wild on corporate-fuelled and foreign-invested money, while patients face exorbitant bills, rights violations, and no accountability from hospitals

Theme 3

Stop privatisation of public health services: The starving of public hospitals of funds is happening along with an aggressive push for privatisation by the government, often under the name of PPP. How do we combine a critical analysis with recent stories of resistance to reclaim our public health systems?

Theme 4

Justice and dignity for all health workers: From ASHAs and ANMs to nurses, technicians, and sanitation workers, millions sustain our health system while battling poor and unfair working conditions. How do we join in their demands and struggles to ensure they remain central in building a strong public health system?

Theme 5

Regulation of Private Healthcare and Patients’ Rights: India’s public health spending remains among the lowest in the world despite number jugglery to hide this dismal reality. Let us analyse current health budgets and chart paths for enhanced and fair public health financing

Theme 6

Access to Quality and Affordable Medicine: Despite regulation, over 80% of medicines remain beyond drug price control. Proliferating irrational drugs and combinations and unethical pharma marketing practices worsen this. We’ll discuss a pro-people pharmaceutical policy placing all controlling essential medicine and device prices, while eliminating irrational drug combinations and unethical marketing practices, strengthening public sector medicine and vaccine production and demand abolishing GST on medicines

Theme 7

Social Determinants of Health, Environment and Climate Change: The social and environmental determinants of health, malnutrition from food insecurity, respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses from polluted air and water and  pandemics fuelled by ecological destruction are current core health challenges. Climate change is intensifying existing vulnerabilities — from heat stress and vector-borne diseases to crop failures, forced migration, unsafe urbanisation, disproportionately impacting vulnerable people everywhere. Let’s discuss and integrate our analysis of these determinants of health, strategising cross-sectoral action towards ensuring a healthier and more sustainable future for all.

Theme 8

Gender and social justice in healthcare access: Pervasive socio-cultural hierarchies (caste, class, religion, gender, sexuality, geography, ethnicity, language, age, disabilities et al) impact India’s public health determining who falls ill, suffers and receives care. We’ll share experiences and strategies to challenge structural discrimination and initiatives for an inclusive health movement respecting diversity, dignity and rights. Demanding equitable, reliable and accessible services centering social justice especially for the systemically marginalized, we can build a health system leaving none behind.