News and Analysis

Right to Health and Health Care Campaign Reports

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Read and download the Right to Health and Health Care Campaign (RTHHC) reports:

Indian civil society expresses concern over ‘Summits on Intellectual Property’ jointly organised by the George Washington University and CII

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Friday, February 26, 2010

To
Shri Anand Sharma,
Hon’ble Minister of Commerce and Industry
Room No. 45, Udyog Bhavan
Rafi Marg
New Delhi – 110 001
Tel: 2306 1492 / 1008
Fax: +91-11-23062947

Re: Summits on Intellectual Property by George Washington University India Project and CII
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Re: Ethics of interaction with Indian Judges, law and policy makers at these summits

Hon’ble Minister,

Cuba's aid ignored by the media?

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Among the many donor nations helping Haiti, Cuba and its medical teams have played a major role in treating earthquake victims. Public health experts say the Cubans were the first to set up medical facilities among the debris and to revamp hospitals immediately after the earthquake struck. However, their pivotal work in the health sector has received scant media coverage.

PHM-US Update, February 2010

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People’s Health Movement –
USA Circle Update

In this Update:

Health and Human Rights Learning Circle Launches in Bay Area

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Inspired by the success of the First Annual South Los Angeles Health and Human Rights Conference last June, PHM-US  is helping to launch a Bay Area health and human rights learning circle. We will meet for several months to use articles, personal experience, and other forms of media to learn more about the health and human rights approach, hoping to build and strengthen a community of allies.

Statement of the Alliance for People's Health: International Condemnation of Philippine military and police action against health workers in Rizal, Philippines

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February 9, 2010

Ambassador Brilliantes
130 Albert Street, Suite 606
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1P 5G4

Dear Ambassador Brillantes,

PHM Right to Health and Health Care Campaign update January 2010

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It is time again to give an update where the campaign has gone since the middle of last year.

The arrest of 43 health workers in the Philippines is an attack on the right to health of the poor

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Third World Relief Fund, a Belgian development NGO, and intal, a solidarity movement with people's movements in the Philippines and other countries, condemns the brazen arrest of 43 doctors and health workers in the Philippines. We consider it an attack on the Council for Health and Development (CHD), our long-time partner organization in the Philippines, and on the right to health of the Philippine people.

Novartis threatens Indian generic drug industry

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For decades, India has been known as the “pharmacy of the developing world” for its ability to supply lifesaving generic drugs at a fraction of the cost of those with brand names. People living in India and throughout the Global South rely heavily on these affordable medicines, and without them antiretrovirals, cancer drugs, and hundreds of other basic medications would be out of reach for millions.

PHM Letter to UNITAID Board on Patent Pool Plan

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To,
The UNITAID Board Chair
Dr Philippe Douste-Blazy
Special Adviser on Innovative Financing for Development
UN Under-Secretary-General

We understand that the UNITAID’s Executive Board is to meet on 14-15th December to finalise the Patent Pool implementation plan.