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Canada, Ottawa: Community Health Centres and Primary Health Care

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Community Health Centres, Primary Health Care and Ottawa Centre

Recently CBC Radio carried an item about new clinics in Alberta: private clinics at which one can enroll, and receive what essentially good primary health care. Nutrition counseling, health promotion programs, someone on call, etc...

World Health Day 2008: Communities Uniting Against Environmental Destruction!

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Today, April 7, 2008, marks World Health Day. Designated by the World Health Organization, since 1950 each year a topic important for global health is brought forth as a component of global advocacy for world health. This year the theme of climate change aims to address climate change as a public health issue and the public health threats that arise from "ever growing threats to global public health security".

Checking in: Health for All or Health for Some? - 15th Canadian Conference on International Health

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30 years have passed since the World Health Organization issued the brave and challenging declaration of Alma Ata, signed by 134 member countries. 15 years have passed since the first Canadian Conference on International Health. Can this anniversary conference revive the spirit and excitement of Alma Ata?

Partners In Health's Institute for Health and Social Justice helps build movement for health and rights

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More than 10,000 people from across the United States and around the world converged in Atlanta, Georgia, earlier this summer for the first-ever U.S. Social Forum. Nearly a thousand workshops, plenaries, concerts, and film screenings addressed the theme “Another world is possible. Another US is necessary.”

Working for Health for ALL: health justice activities at the USSF

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The People's Health Movement (PHM) is a global coalition of grassroots organizations working for the right to health and challenging the prevailing system of health care delivery that is failing to serve most of the poor worldwide. The People's Health Movement - USA Circle (www.phm-usa.org) is organizing various outreach activities as a way to build awareness of and support for the Right to Health in our country. As the US chapter of a global organization we also must take advantage of our location in the United States to carry out activities focused on support for the international movement.

“Sicko” at the US Social Forum

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The US Social Forum in Atlanta is now only days away and the US Circle of the Peoples Health Movement (PHM), has been busily organizing workshops and events on health justice for the thousands of activists expected to attend.

People’s Health Movement activities at the US Social Forum

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People’s Health Movement USA has been very busy organizing Health Justice activities at the upcoming US Social Forum. We have been taking advantage of the opportunity to build greater unity of vision and strategy among US health and health care organizations by jointly planning exciting events on health justice in the US. We urge you to attend any or all of these workshops.

Groups Decry Impact Of IP And Health Terms In US Trade Agreements

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WASHINGTON, DC - Public health activists are condemning recent terms agreed to by Colombia, Peru and Central American countries in bilateral trade negotiations with the United States, that bind those countries to offer patent protections that exceed standards in multilateral agreements. The groups now are hoping for a more favourable outcome in two sets of negotiations currently underway between the United States and countries that have been ravaged by the HIV/AIDS virus - Thailand and the countries of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU).

U.S. Launch of Global Health Watch

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A special U.S. launch of the Global Health Watch took place on December 13th in Philadelphia, at the office of the Philadelphia-based Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) and the national Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC-USA), member organizations in the People’s Health Movement-US.

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