PHM Newsbriefs

This Newsletter gives a broad overview the role of People's Health Movement across the world but is still a representative selection. A mere News Brief cannot do justice to all that is being done by PHM constituents globally. There are too many things happening, too much to report. All that we can do is to whet you appetite. Here is a worthwhile initiative that is bringing people together to fight forces of oppression, forces that deny the basic human right of health. The role of civil society in shaping policies in general and health policies in

News on the anti-privatization campaign in Egypt, the PHM Southeast Asia visit, PHM engagement with the WHO, PHM USA, the Global Health Watch and the Right to Health Campaign.

Newsbrief 20 is specifically aimed at the World Health Assembly. There has always been a PHM presence at the WHA. In fact three years back, PHM had the largest independent NGO presence there. WHA is an ideal occasion to lobby, meet important people in WHO and from the country delegations and raise queries of topical importance. Our Press Releases are widely circulated and reproduced.

Newsbrief 19 reports about the steering council meeting in Cairo in November 2006 and the role PHM played in the election process for the new Director-General of the World Health Organisation.

PHM organizational transition 2005-06: With pleasure and renewed hope, PHM is glad to announce the shift of the Global Secretariat from Bangalore, India to Cairo, Egypt and the responsibility as the Global Secretariat Coordinator from Ravi Narayan to Hani Serag. In order to make the whole process transparent, this Newsbrief contains minutes of some important meetings since Cuenca and the paths we have travelled since in evolving this organizational strategy for PHM.

Reporting from the Second People's Health Assembly Cuenca, Ecuador 16-22 July, 2005: This Newsbrief is a ‘must read’ one for everyone interested in PHM. It is the news brief after the PHA2 and celebrates this event and its highlights.

Attached you'll find an archive with the oldest issues of the PHM Newsbrief.

• Newsbrief 15 - Mobilizing for PHA2
• Newsbrief 14 - The Tsunami and PHM
• Newsbrief 13 - Announcement of PHA2
• Newsbrief 12 - International Health Forum
• Newsbrief 10-11 - Alma Ata Anniversary
• Newsbrief 9 - PHM Secretariat Shift
• Newsbrief 8 - PHM at the World Health Assembly 2002
• Newsbrief 7 - New Structure of PHA Formed at International Meeting in Savar, Dhaka