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The 30th anniversary of the 1978 Alma Ata Declaration was marked by a celebration in Brussels on October 17, 2008. During the program, two PHM activists were interviewed on the significance of Alma Ata and the way forward in the struggle for the right to health. Here are some excerpts from this interview with Arturo Quizhpe from Ecuador and Wim De Ceukelaire from Belgium.

What do you remember from Alma Ata and how did you learn about it?

La palma, Chalatenango, El Salvador, del 22 al 25 de September 2008 - CRPSC

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The 12th National Public Health Congress was held in Ankara between the 21-25 October, 2008 with the support of the Turkish Society of Public Health Specialists and the Public Health Departments of Ankara and Baskent Universities.

As a Turkish Circle of PHM we published the PHM Charter and Cuenca Declaration in Turkish. We combined these two main resources of PHM in the same booklet. We also added an endorsement form in the booklet for participation. INSEV as a host organization of the Turkish Circle is coordinating the process of the PHM circle's information and distribution of the booklets.

On the 30th anniversary of the Alma-Ata Conference, the PHM Turkey Circle was established. Right after the establishment in September 2008, several organizations and individuals were called to join the People’s Health Movement and endorse the Charter. Association for Human Health and Education (INSEV), as a host organization, started to inform individuals and organizations as a main coordinating body. Together with the INSEV, the Association of the Right to Health Movement (SHHD) is working actively to strengthen the Turkish Circle.

With feelings of pain, indignation and sadness, the organisations and individuals who make part of the International People's Health Movement in Latin America and the World are making an urgent call for the mobilization of support for the lives and integrity of the original ommunities and people from the south of Colombia in the Cauca Valley by denouncing, before the international community, the criminal acts committed by the Government of President Álvaro Uribe.

Two Philippine doctors, one an advocate of community-based health programs and the other a toxicology expert, said that corporate greed, import liberalization, and the lack of priority given by the government to local food production and to ensuring food safety are to be blamed for the entry of melamine-contaminated products in the country.

Drug Action Forum - Karnataka is part of Janarogya Andolan Karnataka (a state unit of People's Health Movement - India http://phm-india.org/), member of AIDAN (All India Drug Action Network http://aidanindia.org/) and HAIAP (Health Action International Asia Pacific www.haiap.org).

Drug Action Forum - Karnataka is a registered, not for profit and independent organisation campaigning for Rational use Drugs and Vaccines.