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Global health movement demands release of detained Indian doctor: Release Dr Binayak Sen Immediately!

The People’s Health Movement, a global coalition of health activists and organisations, has demanded that the Indian government secure the immediate release of Dr Binayak Sen, a well known Indian health activist who was arrested by police in the province of Chattisgarh last week.

Pictures of the Second National Health Assembly in Bhopal, India

The Second National Health Assembly (NHA 2) was held from 23rd to 25th March 2007 at Bhopal under the theme “Defending the health of people in the era of Globalisation”.

Stop Bargaining over Life! - A statement of Korean NGOs on the Common Action Day

In January, the Government of Thailand ordered compulsory license on three pharmaceutical substances including Kaletra (Abbott). Thailand is running 'Thai Program of Universal Subsidized Access to AIDS Treatment' from 2004 and 80 thousand patients are benefited from this program. Drugs for second-line treatment are about 14 times more expensive than the first-line drugs. Thereforesecuring inexpensive second-line drug is essential for the success of this program. If Thailand cannot supply these medicines, many patients would have to die.

The second National Health Assembly, in Bhopal, criticises the NRHM and the government's health care priorities

SEVEN years after people's health organisations in India met in Kolkata to constitute formally the first National Health Assembly (NHA) and the subsequent meeting in Savar, Bangladesh, launched the global People's Health Movement (PHM), the increasing realisation is that health care has become more iniquitous than ever.

Sign-on to help protect access to affordable medicines

Pharmaceutical company Novartis is taking the Indian government to court. If the company wins, millions of people across the globe could have their sources of affordable medicines dry up.

Report on PHM-Iran’s Activities

After Excellent preparation for the CSDH Commissioner's meeting in Tehran, January 2006 a good consensus was built in civil societies community in Iran.

Stop KorUS FTA Right Now!

The 4th round of talks on Korea-US FTA is being held from 23th to 27th October, in Jeju Island in South Korea. Just as we had warned, the FTA talks are being driven to an uneven negotiation behind doors, ignoring peoples' concerns and resistance. Clearly, the FTA is pushed not by peoples' will but by some officials in Rho administration, strongly supporting neoliberal "open-door" policies.

First meeting of PHM Aotearoa/ New Zealand

A meeting was held on Tuesday, 3rd October, 2006 in Auckland to discuss setting up a PHM Aotearoa/ New Zealand circle.

Novartis Challenges Indian safeguards

A patent for the cancer drug Gleevec was rejected based on the grounds that it was merely a new form of an old drug, which according to the Indian law, cannot be patented. But Novartis is now challenging the patent rejection, and the Indian law that protects thousands of cancer sufferers and their families.

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