Creator: Uganda National Health Users'/Consumers' Organization (UNHCO)

Description: This video features a polygamous home with over 100 children in Mayuge district, Eastern Uganda, that struggles with family planning and maternal healthcare. The remote and crowded village also lacks accesibility to transportation that helps with traveling to the nearest hospital in a timely or urgent manner.

Creator: Uganda National Health Users'/Consumers' Organization (UNHCO)

Description: This video describes the difficulty Ugandan mothers face when trying to access maternal health services. Women of the Manyi village detail the troubles they face in trying to access healthcare when traveling to faraway hospitals. The lack of accessibility to healthcare and transportaion services often leads to death.

Creator: Health Education and Research Association (HERA)

Description: This film is part of the global initiative "Girls Decide". It examines the movement of breaking down the stereotypes and prejudices existing about the modern contraception among young people in the country. Macedonia is a country where the usage of modern contraception is very low and where education of sexuality is without a place in the official curricula.

Creator: Health Education and Research Association (HERA)

Description: This video was developed as part of HERA's social accountability and legal empowerment programs, supported by the Open Society Institute. These programs function to raise awareness in the Roma community for reproductive rights, to motivate women to report on violations of their health rights, and to promote paralegal services offered by Roma women in fulfillments of their rights.

Creator: Association for Emancipation, Solidarity and Equality of Women of Republic of Madeconia (ESE)

Description: In this video ESE presents findings from the budget monitoring and analysis for realization and budget changes of the Ministry of Health's program for active health protection of mothers and children. The five Roma women featured in the video touch on issues of poor living conditions, limited access to health services, including outreach services, low level of immunization of their children, discrimination of Roma people in the immunization ward, non-implementation of health educational activities in Roma communities, non delivery of the invitations for vaccination in the Roma communities, and out of pocket payments related to immunization.

Creator: Association for Emancipation, Solidarity and Equality of Women of Republic of Madeconia (ESE)

Description: A Roma woman shares her personal story of having had surgical treatment for cancer of uterine cervix seven years ago. She regularly visited the gynecologist leading up to her diagnosis, but the gynecologist never performed a PAP smear. A gynecologist from the primary health care explains why it is important for women to get a PAP smear. Advocacy messages are displayed towards the end of the video in support of improved coverage of women, especially Roma women, with the program.

Creator: Justice and Women Charitable Trust

Description: South African rural women speak about the violation of their rights to confidentiality, counselling and consent when tested for HIV/AIDS by some South African clinics when women were pregnant. Further, some women describe how they were treated whilst in labour by hospital staff, with some women being sterilised without consent. Community stigmatisation of people living with HIV/AIDS made it difficult for women to speak to others or gain support to confront and challenge these violations.

Creator: Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance Amalipe "AMALIPE"

Description: This film presents efforts of community monitoring in healthcare services by Center Amalipe in Bulgaria and with the financial support of Open Society Foundations. This model follows the methodology of community monitoring through the so called ‘community inquiry’, including periodical (twice per year) consultation with local communities about the quality of health services they receive. The results show that this method works successfully for the mobilization of local communities to solve issues in the field of healthcare. All activities are accompanied by the work of juvenile and female groups, which is an important part of both community mobilization and advocacy activities.

Creator: Sonke Gender Justice

Description: Fatherhood is a gift to children, but it’s also a gift to dads. In Khayelitsha, Themba inspires his younger brother, Andrew, who is about to become a father. This short film follows the journey to fatherhood in South Africa, a country where more than half of all children grow up without a father at home. It also highlights the struggles faced by mothers whom are expected, by traditional cultural standards, to care for their home and children.

Creator: Centre For Advocacy And Research / Center for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ)

Description: Reviewing Hopes Realizing Rights, a film produced by CHSJ, captures the community monitoring process by bringing out the dynamics of generating voices and demands at the community level.