PHA-Exchange> Second Peoles Health Assembly 2005

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THE PEOPLE´S HEALTH MOVEMENT AND THE ECUADOREAN NATIONAL FRONT FOR THE HEALTH 
OF THE PEOPLE
 
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
 
SECOND PEOPLE´S HEALTH ASSEMBLY
 
QUITO, ECUADOR
 
JULY 18-23, 2005  
 
VENUE:
 
Ecuador is located in the northwest part of Latin America.  It has a history 
of people’s struggles in the defence of health and life.  Ecuador is a country 
rich in natural and cultural resources with populations that are world 
renown.  Internally there is a huge contrast between poverty and social 
inequality, on one hand, and the dominant economic and political groups that 
are directly responsible for this situation on the other.  The awareness of 
the people about the situation has generated important processes leading to 
unity and mobilization. 

 
THE PROCESS

The Second People’s Health Assembly will be the result of a process of local 
and national reflection, discussion and debate, and of the exchange of 
experiences of communities and networks as well as conferences and workshops 
about the aspects that influence the health and well being of everyone.

At the same time there will be a joining together of campaigns and 
mobilizations of organizations and groups of people from around the world. One 
such campaign is “Health Now, No to War and the WTO”.
 
OBJECTIVES OF PHA II
o	To promote and extend the People’s Health Movement as a space that 
works for the revival of the spirit of Health for All. 
o	To strengthen global action on the Right to Health as a fundamental 
human right. 
o	To enlarge the debate and to exert the resistance to all mechanisms 
that violate the right to health of the people, many represented as neo-
liberal reforms, globalization or militarization. 
o	To share knowledge and practices of alternative models of the 
promotion and provision of community health.
 
THE CONCEPT OF HEALTH
“Health is a social, economic and political issue and, above all, a 
fundamental human right. Inequality, poverty, exploitation, violence and 
injustice are at the root of ill-health and the death of poor and marginalized 
people. Health for All means that powerful interests have to be challenged, 
that the negative aspects of globalization have to be opposed, and that 
political and economic priorities have to be drastically changed.”  (People’s 
Charter for Health) 
 
VISION
 
”Equity, ecologically-sustainable development and peace are at the heart of 
our vision of a better world - a world in which a healthy life for all is a 
reality; a world that respects, appreciates and celebrates all life and 
diversity; a world that enables the flowering of people's talents and 
abilities to enrich each other; a world in which people's voices guide the 
decisions that shape our lives. 
There are more than enough resources to achieve this vision.” (People’s 
Charter for Health)
 
THEMES OF THE PHA II
 
	The preliminary themes that have been identified for the PHA II 
o	Health as a fundamental human right. 
o	Health care reforms and the right to health 
o	Health and Indigenous Peoples; Natural and Traditional Medicine. 
o	HIV and AIDS  
o	Population Sectors and the demand for health: youth, women, children, 
the elderly. 
o	Militarization: an affront to health. 
o	Free trade agreements: The World Trade Organization and its 
repercussions on the health of the people.
 
ACTIVITIES DURING THE ASSEMBLY
 
Groups and organizations are encouraged to sign up for the diverse activities 
of the PHAII.  There will be conferences, testimonies, panel discussion, 
poster sessions, artistic presentations and rallies.  Following the Assembly, 
there will be opportunities for exposure trips to areas in Ecuador.
  
TENTATIVE CALENDAR
	Registration of events:  	Deadline March 31, 2005
	Registration of participating organizations: 	Deadline May 15, 2005
	Individual registration: 	Deadline May 31, 2005   
 
FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
National Front for the Health of the People (Frente Nacional por la Salud de 
los Pueblos)    E-mail: iphc.sa at etapaonline.net.ec     Telefax: (593-7) 2884765
 
INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE´S HEALTH COUNCIL - IPHC
E-mail:  info at iphcglobal.org    Telefax: 505-2-662225
				
SECRETARIAT OF THE PHA II
E-mail:  phaII at phmovement.org



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