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Dear Claudio
Please note that the European meeting you announce is on the 4th AND 5th of 
December. The 5th is aatrategic planning meeting.
Pam

At 11:12 AM 11/24/01 +0100, schuftanc at who.ch wrote:

>There are a number of developments that I need to share with you:
>
>Zafrulla and Ravi Narayan were in Geneva in October and pressed the need
>with WHO to have a PHA meeting during the World Health Assembly next May. I
>am currently in Geneva for a few weeks and was notified that WHO has agreed
>in principle and details will be worked out.  I also met with the new Civil
>Society Initiative staff of WHO to discuss further possible collaboration
>with the People`s Health Movement (the prefered way to refer to us now). We
>will attempt to have as many as possible PHA members come to Geneva in May.
>We want to use the opportunity to do as much lobbying for the PCH (charter)
>as possible.
>
>There was an important meeting of internatiojal coordinators of PHA in Savar
>(Dhaka) at the end of October. A proposal for our further organization and
>plan of action was discussed. It contains strategies to disseminate the
>Charter and creating consensus around it, ideas to stengthen our movement
>over the next 3 years, a new proposed structure how the movement should be
>oganized and a timetable for things that need to be done. Dr Qasem in the
>Secretariat will post the document later in this list as it is reviewed and
>finalized.
>
>On December 4th, the European PHA groups will hold a one-day 1st aniversary
>meeting in London. I urge our friends organizing it to post more information
>in this list in the next few days. From Asia, Dr Thelma Narayan of the
>Community Health Cell in Bangalore has been invited to attend.
>In India, April 7th has been changed by PHA members from WHO Day to People`s
>Health Day and in 2001 Health as a Right was the theme.
>
>PHA`s lobbying with UN agencies has till now concentrated mostly on WHO. It
>is now clear that we need to be more proactive with other agencies; UNICEF
>is key among them.  If anyone of you has good contacts, please communicate
>this to the Secretariat (gksavar at citechco.net). A first step is to more
>widely distribute the People`s Charter to theses agencies` officers and then
>to establish more formal linkages of consultation with them.
>
>Does anybody else have first aniversary meetings scheduled next month?
>Please tell us.
>
>Claudio
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