Latin America

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

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.

Objectives

1.To permit an equitable dialogue among governments, academic institutions, intergovernmental agencies and social, popular and labor movements about the development of universal systems as an alternative for countries and regions
* 2.To strength the existing universal health systems through the share of its historical experiences, achievements and common challenges

The National Movement for the Right to Health joins with the indignation and protest of the population of Laurelty for the complete dysfunction and ineptitude with which the National Authorities have managed the situation since the outbreak of yellow fever was unleashed in our country.

A Eureka Films production : the Cuban Health system. Produced & directed by Tom Fawthrop

"No police nor law can break the will of an entire resolved town to resist until all their forces are drained" (Gandhi)