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Development: 'People's Trains' to Start New Public Health Movement

By Sandhya Srinivasan

CALCUTTA, India Nov 30 (IPS) - Amruta S.V. rode a train for four days this week as it made its way across southern and eastern India before reaching this eastern metropolis.

This was no ordinary train journey as all passengers came here to attend a unique gathering of public health activists and people's groups from across the subcontinent, which opened Thursday. It was one of four 'people's health trains' that started from the southern, western, northern and north-eastern corners of India...................... more >>

Health Focus/Africa: Continent's Health Systems Collapsing

By Lewis Machipisa

HARARE, Dec 1 (IPS) - The gospel, according to the clergy at the Bretton Woods institutions preaching the message of economic reform, is that it is easier for a slim government to find salvation than a fat one......... more >>


Health Focus/Development: Reviewing Another Broken Promise

By Marwaan Macan-Marka

MEXICO CITY, Dec 1 (IPS World Desk) - By this year, another global pledge was to have been achieved: primary health care for all.................. more >>

Health-LATAM: Globalisation Hazardous to Public Health

By Gustavo González

SANTIAGO, Dec 1 (IPS) - The globalisation process has a negative impact on public health in Latin America, according to the diagnoses and proposals regional delegates are taking to the international People's Health Assembly (PHA 2000) next week in Bangladesh..... more >>

Health Focus/Australia: Prescription to Improve Indigenous Health - Major Policy Rethinks

By Bob Burton

CANBERRA, Dec 1 (IPS) - Australia's indigenous peoples are now enjoying a bigger health budget than ever before, but health activists and experts say the generous infusion of federal funds is not enough to cure a myriad of ills brought about by centuries of abuse and neglect............... more >>

Health: Activists Want Health on Top of Development Agenda

SAVAR, Bangladesh, Dec 4 (IPS) - An international conference organised by health activists, the People's Health Assembly, started off here Monday, with hundreds of delegates from around the world vowing to pressure policy makers to put primary health care back on top of the development agenda..................... more >>

Health-Development: Time to Put U.N. Back on Track, Activists Say

By Ranjit Devraj

SAVAR, Bangladesh, Dec 5 (IPS) - The United Nations system has stumbled off the track of equitable development and now needs to be put back on that path, activists at an international health meeting here said Tuesday...................... more >>

Health-Development: World Bank's Cures Hurting Nations - Critics

By Ranjit Devraj

SAVAR, Bangladesh, Dec 7 (IPS) - The World Bank and its market- driven health policies are getting the ire of health activists and experts here, who say the Bank's cures are harming the developing- country patients they seek to help.................. more >>

Development: Health Care Needs Shot in the Arm, Activists Say

By Ranjit Devraj

SAVAR, Bangladesh, Dec 8 (IPS) - Primary health care must be put back up on the global agenda, immunising it from damage caused by economic liberalisation and the privatisation of health services, activists said at the end of the People's Health Assembly (PHA) here Friday..................... more >>