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PHM Sri Lanka News

See attached newsletter on the recent activities of PHM Sri Lanka.

Community participation in Japan

 

My name is Tetsuro Irohira, a Buddhist monk from Japan.

Oh, got mistaken. I am a physician from Nagano Prefecture, deep in the mountains of Central Japan. Where the Winter Olympics were held thirteen years ago.

 

Global healthcare and social justice

Today's global and national health crisis reflects the widening inequalities within and between countries, as the rich get richer the poor  poorer. Advances in science and technology are securing healthier and longer lives for a small fraction of the world’s population.

New R&D Group entangled in conflict-of-interest issues

Geneva, 27 Jan (Heba Wanis) -- The Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) accepted the appointment of a major pharmaceutical company executive as a member of the new WHO Consultative Expert Working Group (CEWG) set up to find ways to finance research and development (R&D) into diseases afflicting developing countries despite "conflict of interest" concerns.
 

Right to Health and Health Care Campaign - priority health issues identified by PHM circles

Priority health issues as identified by PHM circles implementing the Right to Health and Health Care Campaign (taken verbatim from their reports, October 2010)

 

PHM’s Right to Health Commission evaluating the Right to Health and Health Care Campaigns

(RTHC) has identified themes that are common among the many campaigns that are under way

in 17 PHM circles around the globe.

 

PHM India (JSA) statement on Binayak Sen's conviction

We, the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, a coalition of national networks and organizations actively working for health rights in the country, express our outrage at the verdict of the Raipur district and sessions court, on 24th December 2010, declaring Dr Binayak Sen, General Secretary of the Chhattisgarh People's Union for Civil Liberties and Vice-President of the National PUCL, guilty of sedition and treason, and sentencing him to life imprisonment.

Freedom of the Morong 43 is fruit of the people’s struggle

Press release Council for Health and Development - Philippines - 17 December 2010

They braved indefinable forms of human rights violations so that they may live to see the day when they will finally be reunited with their families and people they serve. The Morong 43 are finally free!

Short Report on the Ministerial Conference "Health Systems Financing - Key to Universal Coverage" held in Berlin, Nov. 22-23, 2010

The Ministerial Conference "Health Systems Financing - Key to Universal Coverage" was convened by two German Ministries on the occasion of the presentation of the “World Health Report 2010”. It turned out to be a most interesting gathering of almost 30 Ministers of Health from all over the world plus government officials, politicians, some researches and a few NGOs.

President of FEUE (Ecuador) on humger strike to demand his freedom

Ecuadorian University Student Federation President, Marcelo Rivera, jailed for over ten months in the García Moreno prison, declared today that he was beginning an open-ended hunger strike, to pressure the government and the courts, in demand of his freedom.

The student leader decided to take this extreme measure to push for a favorable ruling from the Third Division of the Criminal Trial Court, presided over by Dr. Gladys Terán Sierra, during the trial scheduled for 22 October.

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