Globalization & Health

Civil Society letter to the International Monetary Fund

The PHM is strongly supporting a letter opposing the policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that continues to have a harmful role in hindering countries' efforts to increase investments in life-saving health, education, HIV/AIDS and other social programs.

Dear Managing Director,

Boycott Novartis campaign

Drug Action Forum - Karnataka, India - an independent, not for profit, NGO campaigning for rational drugs has launched "Novartis Boycott" campaign.



So please sign the online Petition Against Novartis at

http://novartisboycott.org/petition

The Global Crisis and People’s Health

In a forum on The Global Crisis and People’s Health, held in Balay Kalinaw at the University of the Philippines in Diliman last July 31, health activists pointed out that further militarization pose the greatest threat to health and peace.

The month of July ended with news on climate change, war, violence, militarization and emergence of new forms of diseases.

Against the privatization of health insurance in Egypt

Committee for Defending the Citizens Right to Health (CDCRH) was founded last May by 21 civil society organizations as a reaction to the Prime Minister declaration no. 637 for the year 2007 that has founded the "Egyptian Holding Company for Health Care". The CDCRH hereby announces its position to the people and the press.

Life and Health First

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

People's health movement (South Africa) supports the public sector's action

The South African Chapter of the People's Health Movement (PHM) strongly supports the demand by public sector health workers (and workers in other public sectors) for a 12% wage increase. While we urge all parties to respect essential services, we also support industrial action if negotiations fail. In this regard we believe that the largest threat to essential services comes primarily not from the threat of industrial action but from the lack of official respect for, and the poor working conditions of, the workers that render them.

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.

Towards a world convention for R&D?

Interview with Mrs Nicoletta Dentico, DNDi - (Drug for neglected diseases -
http://www.dndi.org)
Member of the Group of Experts on the Intergovernmental Working Group on Public health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (IGWG)
Interview conducted during the 120th meeting of the WHO Executive Board (Jan 22-26) to which N. Dentico and this author participated as civil society observers.
Interview by Garance Upham, Safe Observer International, NGO Forum for Health, PHM Disability and Economics Circle)

To the new leadership of the WHO: A renewed commitment or more empty promises?

Alison Katz, a long-time staff member at the World Health Organization and activist with the People’s Health Movement, sent the open letter below to Dr. Margaret Chan, the new Director-General of WHO. Alison’s letter provides a passionate and articulate summary of the choices facing WHO if it is to meet its promise of "Health for All."

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