5. Useful Links
LATIN AMERICA
Documental realizado por jóvenes activistas para ejercer una reflexión ciudadana sobre la situación de la influenza en México.
Ecovida
Niton Deza, the president of this Peruvian NGO will be one of the guest speakers during Latin America Week.
Latin American Health Network
In May 2002, The Peoples Health Movement (PHM) was invited by the World Health Organization to participate in the first Technical briefing session at the World Health Assembly, organised by the WHO-Civil Society Initiative and to present the Peoples Health Charter. Shortly after, the Spanish-speaking participants, mostly from Latin America, set up an electronic list serve to continue to share with one another.
It is called REDLATINAMERICANASALUD or Latin American Health Network. Many people in Latin America, in those countries that had representation at the PHA, have been involved in discussions about the event, and especially about the People's Charter for Health. One significant result of some of these activities and discussions, is that health activists have decided to work on building awareness of the effects of the Free Trade Agreement for the Americas (FTAA) on the health of the people.
IRELAND
Community Worker's Co-op
Community Worker's Co-op are campaigning around health, particularly linking ill-health and poverty and inequality.
Institute of Public Health
The aim of the Institute of Public Health in Ireland is to improve health on the island of Ireland by working to combat health inequalities and influence public policies in favour of health
CAMPAIGNS
Friends of the Earth campaign on oil, mining and gas. Also details various Latin Americas campaigns.
www.nodirtygold.org/home.cfm
Around the world, mine-affected communities, grassroots organizations, and national and international organizations are working to end dirty gold mining practices. This campaign seeks to support these efforts and to collaborate with other like-minded organizations.
www.themillionsignaturecampaign.org
Since the Alma Ata declaration in 1978, responses were promising. However, the spirit of Alma Ata and the idea of Health For All has been under attack by anti-health, anti-poor policies, reemerging and new diseases, new challenges and above all by efforts to put private profit over public health. In the current international health crisis, it is more essential to reaffirm and implement the principles and strategies of Alma Ata.
Join this march on the Internet - THE MILLION SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN- to revive the principles and strategies of ALMA ATA.
Join this march to endorse the PEOPLE'S CHARTER FOR HEALTH, the largest consensus document on health (since Alma Ata and building on its foundations), endorsed during the PEOPLES HEALTH ASSEMBLY, a historic summit held in 2000.
This signature campaign, initiated by the People's Health Movement and the International People's Health Council, is being endorsed by ordinary people from various walks of life and organisations, institutions, peoples associations and others working for a just world. We hope this campaign will catch the attention of the WHO, UNICEF, other UN bodies, social and political organisations, policy makers, governments and others. It is one more step towards making health for all a reality.
UK AND EUROPEAN ORGANISATIONS
- www.medact.org
UK health professionals organisation challenging barriers to health. They highlight the health impacts of violent conflict, poverty and environmental degradation, and with others act to eradicate them.
- www.healthunlimited.org
UK based organisation, working with indigenous people and communities living in the remote areas of countries affected by war and political instability.
USEFUL INFORMATION
- Globalisation and Health- Excellent teaching resource on Globalisation and Health
- The "Politics of Health Knowledge Network" is an interactive web site designed to improve information sharing to assist concerned people and groups working for urgently needed social and structural change.
- Autumn 2000 edition of on-line magazine ReVista:
Harvard Review of Latin America, on HEALTH AND EQUITY IN THE AMERICAS
- www.newint.org
See Issue 362 Big Pharma from November 2003 on the international pharmaceutical industry.
- PDF on Intellectual Property and Access to medicines in the Free Trade Area of the Americas Agreement (FTAA)
INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENTS
- People's Health Movement.
The goal of the People's Health Movement is to re-establish health and equitable development as top priorities in local, national and international policy-making, with comprehensive primary health care as the strategy to achieve these priorities. The People's Health Movement (PHM) aims to draw on and support people's movements in their struggles to build long-term and sustainable solutions to health problems.
- The International People's Health Council - IPHC -
IPHC is a worldwide coalition of people's health initiatives and socially progressive groups and movements committed to working for the health and rights of disadvantaged people and ultimately of all people. IPHC is a founding member of the People's Health Movement and serves on the International Steering Committee of PHM. The vision of the IPHC is to advance toward Health for All-viewing health in the broad sense of physical, mental, social, economic, and environmental well-being.
US ORGANISATIONS
HealthWrights is a non-profit organization committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups. We believe that health for all people is only possible in a global society where the guiding principles are sharing, mutual assistance, and respect for cultural and individual differences. (US)
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