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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.

Video: Protest action against the EU-India FTA - Brussels - 4 October 2010

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Against the backdrop of the 8th ASEM, the Belgian Platform for Action on Health and Solidarity held a protest action against the EU-India FTA during the Asia-Europe People's Forum, in front of the European Commission in Brussels on 4 October 2010.

Ecuador: The Events of 30 September 2010

By Ramiro Vinueza

To understand the events of 30 September we must put them in historical context, which will give us a more complete picture.

Report of the PHM Steering Council meeting, August 16-19, 2010

PHM activities in Sri Lanka, August 2010

The People's Health Movement (PHM) met in Sri Lanka in August 2010, where we co-hosted an International People's Health University (IPHU) with Sarvodaya, from 8 to 16 August 2010, in Moratuwa. The course was attended by 56 health activists

On the 16th August, a meeting was held with Sri Lankan civil society.

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