Announcement

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.

The Crisis of Health and Human Rights in South L.A: Leveraging Lessons and Getting Results in South LA and Beyond

As the movement for health and human rights advances, its local, national, and international fronts have an unprecedented opportunity to share lessons and leverage resources towards a common purpose: marked and measurable improvements in the health and well-being of children, adolescents and families. In south Los Angeles and beyond, the challenge for health and human rights advocates is not about whether we work together to seize this opportunity to achieve results, but about how.

People’s Health Movement USA invites you to:

Moving Progressive NGO Advocacy to the Next Level
May 27, 2009, 6pm
Meet in the lobby off the main entrance the Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert St NW
Washington, DC 20008
The hotel is one block from Woodley Park/Zoo/Adams Morgan stop on the Metro Red Line

With the collapse of the neoliberal economic model, the new administration in Washington, and increase attention to comprehensive primary health care and the social determinants of health, progressive NGOs working on health issues must take advantage of the space for action.

People’s Health Movement USA will be launching the Global Health Watch in several US cities this winter. Launches are currently being planned for Washington, D.C., Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Iowa City, and Madison, WI.

Objectives

1.To permit an equitable dialogue among governments, academic institutions, intergovernmental agencies and social, popular and labor movements about the development of universal systems as an alternative for countries and regions
* 2.To strength the existing universal health systems through the share of its historical experiences, achievements and common challenges

IPHU participants from the 'Africa Group’ have agreed that in order to strengthen the movement, they would each need to first start by working locally, strengthening the PHM activities in their respective countries, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. They commited to support each other in developing and strengthening the PHM in each of their countries as they work towards an Africa-wide People’s Health Movement.

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