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Right to Health and Health Care Campaign Reports

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

in
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
and
Re: Ethics of interaction with Indian Judges, law and policy makers at these summits

Hon’ble Minister,

Cuba's aid ignored by the media?

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


People’s Health Movement –
USA Circle Update


In this Update:

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

in

February 9, 2010

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

Dear Ambassador Brillantes,

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

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

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-US Editorial featured on cover of The Lancet

Lancet journal coverThe latest issue of The Lancet features the editorial below, written by members of PHM-US.

Focus on Human Resources is the Best Medicine

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.

Dr Luther Castillo update: Takeover of Indigenous Garifuna Community Hospital in Honduras

However, he said the staff is staying put, and vows to continue working, even without the small stipend the government had provided in the past and with no guarantee of medicines or vital supplies.

"We will not abandon our people," said Dr. Castillo. "These are the poorest of the poor, the invisible poor. They are the real victims of the coup," he told MEDICC. "And they are the reason so many of our young people decided to become doctors in the first place."

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