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Malaysian Aboriginals: The Sorry State of Health

Type: 
Article
Author(s) and Title(s): 
Malaysian Aboriginals: The Sorry State of Health
Theme: 
Indigenous Peoples
Description: 

Enclosed are two news articles: a report by Malaysiakini (an online news portal) on disclosures made by Dr. Selva Vathany Pillai concerning malpractice and the misappropriation of resources by hospital authorities at the Gombak Hospital.

This hospital was specially set up to provide health care services to the Orang Asli (translated as “original peoples”) who are the aboriginal peoples of Peninsular Malaysia.

The second, from a local daily theSun, details the lack of action taken by the authorities despite the shocking disclosures.

The Orang Asli (comprising 18 ethnic subgroups) make up some 0.6 percent of the Malaysian population with the highest level of poverty, lowest life expectancy and highest rate of malnutrition, infant mortality and maternal mortality.

Under the law, all aspects of their lives are ‘managed’ by the Orang Asli Affairs Department (JHEOA). In short they are wards of the state with limited autonomy over their own affairs.

Publisher Name: 
Evelyne Hong
Date: 
18 Mar 2010

Bangladesh: A few days after the cyclone Sidr

Type: 
Video
Author(s) and Title(s): 
Sebastien Saugues
Web Link: 
http://blip.tv/file/3218530/
Description: 

On the 15th of November 2007, at 5.00 pm, Bangladesh was hit by the cyclone called Sidr. It was the 30th cyclone in this country since 1960. The winds blew up to 250 km per hour, creating waves of about 18 feet high that flooded the numerous coastal ponds of fresh water with salty water. In the Ganges delta the Sundarbans, the biggest mangrove swamp in the world, were devastated. The cyclone ended the following day.

In this film we follow five social and health workers, who, after having attended an international meeting of the International People's Health University in Dhaka (the capital of Bangladesh), have decided to visit the villages of Barguna district, the most affected area, and watch the emergency work done by GK Savar's medical team, as well as the work of other NGOs and of the local authorities.

CREDITS

A film by Sebastien Saugues

Duration: 29 minutes

Special Thanks: GK Savar, International People's Health University, Dr Rezaul Haque, Marieke Vantieghem, Lydia Aballa, Kayvan Bozorgmerh.

Copyright: Sebastien Saugues / Loin de l'Oeil – 08/2009

Publisher Name: 
Sebastien Saugues / Loin de l'Oeil

PHM Statement: Illegal arrest of community health workers and doctors in the Philippines

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PHM strongly condemns the illegal arrest, detention and torture of community health workers and doctors in the Philippines. Attached is the PHM statement in this regard.

 

Focus on Human Resources is the Best Medicine

Type: 
Article
Author(s) and Title(s): 
David Sanders (Prof, School of Public Health, University of Western Cape and PHM Steering Council Member) & Bridget Lloyd (PHM Global Coordinator)
Description: 
The National Health Insurance (NHI) - in essence a pooling of public and private resources for healthcare - will potentially increase significantly funds for health, and therefore, it is assumed, improve access for all South Africans to a wider range of services.
Publisher Name: 
Cape Times
Date: 
20 Jul 2009

A user-friendly guide/toolkit for applying the human rights-based framework

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Type: 
Other
Other: 
Toolkit
Author(s) and Title(s): 
UN Staff in Viet Nam
Description: 

A Human Rights Based Approach. A User-friendly guide from UN Staff in Viet Nam for UN staff in Viet Nam (UNCT/Viet Nam/ 2009)

Publisher Name: 
UNCT - Viet Nam - 2009

Shadow Submission on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health in the UK

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This civil society report on the right to the highest attainable standard of health in the United Kingdom (UK) has been coordinated by the People¹s Health Movement-UK, in association with Medact and Doctors for Human Rights.

The Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument (HeRWAI)

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HeRWAI is a strategic tool to enhance lobbying activities for better implementation of women's health rights. A HeRWAI analysis links what actually happens with what should happen according to the human rights obligations of a country. More information and downloads on http://www.humanrightsimpact.org/themes/womens-human-rights/herwai/herwai-home/

Democracy, people and some burning questions

Type: 
Paper
Author(s) and Title(s): 
Mathura P Shrestha (President, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nepal)
Publisher Name: 
This paper is prepared as a country-keynote to South Asian People’s Assembly 2008 (People SAARC 2000), July 18-20, 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Date: 
18 Jul 2008

Millennium Development Goals: Progress & prospects for meeting Child Survival targets in South Africa

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The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that 189 United Nations Member states including South Africa are committed to achieve by 2015. This paper takes a critical look at South Africa's prospects for meeting the MDG targets for child survival.

Newsbrief 23 - Civil Society Response to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health

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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