Health Equity Initiatives (HEI) has a mission to promote and protect the right to health of marginalized communities.
HEI believes that universal access to affordable, high quality health care is a fundamental human right and recognize that community participation and empowerment are instrumental to the realization of these rights.
Vision
A socially just world in which every human being is entitled to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health conducive to living a life in dignity.
Long-Term Objectives
- To establish and reorient laws, policies and programs to recognize and advance the right to health of marginalized communities so they are better able to achieve equity and justice in health.
- To improve the physical and mental health of marginalized communities thus enabling them to live with increased dignity and well-being.
- To strengthen marginalized communities to enable them to become more effective in promoting their right to health through interventions, advocacy and policy making at the community, national and international levels thus enabling them to gain increased agency over their health and lives.