PHA-Exchange> Don't forget the signature campaign!

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People's Health Movement & International People's Health Council
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MILLION SIGNATURES ON THE INTERNET
TO DEMAND FOR "HEALTH FOR ALL NOW"

The Million Signature Campaign is a list on the Internet for you to demand
HEALTH FOR ALL NOW !  Join 'The Million Signature Campaign'!

www.TheMillionSignatureCampaign.org

In its historic document, the Alma Ata Declaration, WHO promised 'Health for
all by 2000'. Since then, the spirit of Alma Ata and the idea of Health For
All has been under attack by anti-poor people's health policies, reemerging
and new diseases, new challenges and, above all, by efforts to put
privatization over public
health. Given the current international health crisis, it is more essential
than ever to
reaffirm and implement the principles of Alma Ata.

The Million Signature campaign was officially launched worldwide in January.
Tens of thousands of people have already expressed their solidarity by
signing on.

This signature campaign, initiated by the People's Health Movement
and the International People's Health Council, is being endorsed by ordinary
people and organizations from all walks of life.

The campaign is designed to put pressure on WHO, UNICEF, other UN bodies,
social and political organizations, policy-makers and governments to
re-emphasize PHC in their programs.

The People's Health Movement represents grassroots organizations from over
100 countries. Its goal is to re-establish health and equitable development
as top priorities in local, national and international policy-making
processes, with comprehensive primary health care as the strategy to achieve
these priorities. One of the tools used by PHM worldwide is the People's
Charter for Health, the largest people-centered consensus document on
health.

The International People's Health Council (IPHC). IPHC, a constituent of
the PHM, is a worldwide coalition of people's health initiatives and
progressive groups and movements committed to working for the health and
rights of disadvantaged people.

This year, these two organizations will observe the 25th anniversary of  the
Alma Ata Declaration. A series of activities are being planned.

DO SEND ON THIS EMAIL TO OTHERS AND ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO SIGN!

Dr. Ravi Narayan, Facilitator: PHM Secretariat.
Maria Hamlin Zuniga, Co-ordinator: IPHC