PHA-Exchange> PHA-2 Update, 15 January 2005
Claudio
claudio at hcmc.netnam.vn
Sat Jan 15 19:19:17 PST 2005
PHA 2 Watch
An update from the secretariat as of January 15th 2004
On the run up to the Second People's Health Assembly (PHA 2) and the Evolution of the FRAMEWORK
? This update from the PHM secretariat will be an attempt to keep track of all the ideas and suggestions that are being received by the PHM Secretariat from all sorts of sources.
? It will also document decisions communicated to us by the PHA 2 International Organizing Committee.
? Please note that this is only a supportive checklist for the organizing committee and all our regional and country mobilizers to ensure that no ideas and suggestions are lost in the mountain of emails
Keeping Track
(The following log will be used to classify various activities and preparatory events for the PHA 2, which then would be of use to the organizing committee as well as the Secretariat for tracking progress)
1. Participation
2. Stories and Testimonies
3. Case Studies and Innovative Solutions
4. Workshops
5. Plenary Sessions
6. Special Invitees
7. Organizing Commissions
8. Cultural Events
9. Exhibitions
10. Media
11. Funding Arrangements
12. Regional Mobilization and Events
13. Background Publications
14. Others
NB: The first watch communication on the 10th January 2005 is enclosed; we are only including those sections of the checklist in which we have some information
1.00 PARTICIPATION
1.10 Suggested Delegates for PHA 2 (PHA 2 IOC September 2004, Cuenca)
LATIN AMERICA (550)
Ecuador
300
South America
250
CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (75)
NORTH AMERICA (75)
EUROPE (50)
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 20
Iran
AFRICA - West, East, and South (50)
SOUTH ASIA (60)
India 30
Bangladesh 10
Srilanka
05
Nepal
5
Pakistan
10
SOUTH EAST ASIA (20)
Philippines 10
Cambodia 03
Thailand
04
Indonesia
03
EAST ASIA
Japan, Taiwan, Korea (05)
Malaysia Singapore and the Pacific Islands
05
EAST ASIA
Japan, Taiwan, Korea (05)
Malaysia Singapore and the Pacific Islands 05
CHINA (05)
AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND (25)
3.00 BACKGROUND PUBLICATIONS
1) GHW Report: Alternative World Health Report
(This will be launched at the PHA 2 as the main background document)
2) GHW Report (Spanish Edition) by Jaimie Breilh
3) Lancet Special Issue (Ravi Narayan and Mike Rowsen following it up with Richard Horton)
4) CETIM Publication for PHA 2 (Chapters organized around 5 Plenary Sessions) coordinated by Alison Katz and others
5) Development Dialogue Special Issue (Ravi Narayan with Olle Nordberg and Claudio Schuftan)
4.00 WORKSHOP/SEMINARS/AFTERNOON ACTIVITIES
4.10 Draft Programme Circulated by Maria to the PHA 2 IOC (24th November, 2004)
1. Challenge to the universities
? Health as business or Health as a public service
? Latin American Faculty of Health (Cuba): the philosophy, and the teaching role in the community medical service.
? Integration of Traditional Medicine into the dominant health systems
? Medical missions from Cuba in the exterior
2. Free Trade Agreements and Health
? Migration, external debt and loss of human talents (brain drain)
? Immigrant health; problems and challenges from the developed world.
? Children, women and migration.
? Political refugees, humanitarian refugees, persons displaced by war.
? Impact on the labour force
? Intellectual property rights and patents
? Loss of sovereignty
3. Health and the Environment
? Festival of seeds and agro-biodiversity.
? Transgenic Organisms. Free Trade Agreements, food sovereignty
? Genome
? Biodiversity
? Science and technology
? Water and sanitation
? March for the defence and conservation of the environment
4. Encounter of Cultures and Health
"...a World in which a healthy life for everyone is a reality, a World that respects, appreciates, and produces life and diversity."
? Traditional Medicine, Natural Medicines and Biogenetics: their integration into the Public Health services
? Qualitative investigations in Public Health: liberating investigations
? Health in the people's hands. Self- governing practises for the Primary Health Care of Ecosystems
? Intercultural Encounter in Tumipamba with indigenous peoples from around the world.
? Intercultural dialogue and sharing of ancestral practises of health, rituals and curing.
? Towards the construction of a people-centred health care model based on life. The voices cry out "Another World is Possible".
? Ethnic groups and health
? Discussion groups, proposals and commitments
5. Gender and Collective Health
? Health Care Reform
? Sexual and Reproductive Rights
? Labour Rights
? Legislation
6. Communications and Health
? analytical sessions, debates and shared experiences
? sessions on strategies in order to reach goals and objectives
? testimonies and creative reports from campaigns and movements
? Intercultural dialogue, with community groups. Strengthening people's contacts among each other
? Visits to projects in Ecuadorean communities
? Group discussion to elaborate proposals
? Seminars, workshops, forums
Photographic exhibits, Videos, Testimonies, Scale models, murals, music, theatre
Exhibitions: Along with the analytical documents and testimonies, we will arrange photographic exhibitions. For example, artistic expressions, that will have explanations which reveal the actual situation, the required actions, and key messages taken from the People's Charter for Health
Innovations: a model of a refugee camp where the environment and design illustrate life under occupation and invasion. This could also be in the form of a virtual model. An important centre to promote and educate could be built.
General Activities
Within the framework of the Second Assembly, we have foreseen various activities which look out for the participation and inclusion of the large numbers of health work groups, intellectuals, academics, creative expressions and spaces in order to share the rich experiences and wisdom of the people.
Cont...General Activities
Amongst these activities there are:
? Global forum for Children: Alegremia Festival
? March to defend and conserve the environment
? International Festival of Children's Cinema
? Youth Forum
? Opening and Closing Sessions
? Native Peoples Intercultural Ceremony
4.2 A suggestion from PHM Secretariat Team of 32 Workshops with Potential Sponsors building further on the 6 themes in the draft program (4.1 above) and extending it to 10 tracks
1. Track One: Equity and People's Health
1) Global Health Watch: Towards Advocacy & Action
2) Poverty and the MDGs: Broken Promises, Recycled Slogans, or Real Commitment?
3) Global Call To Action Against Poverty
4) From Equity Monitoring To Community Empowerment
2. Track Two: People's Health Culture
1) PEOPLE'S HEALTH TRADITIONS : Inter cultural dialogue / encounter on health practices (*)
2) TOWARDS A PEOPLE'S HEALTH CULTURE ORIENTED HEALTH POLICY (*)
3) DIALOGUE TOWARDS INTEGRATION OF HEALING TRADITIONS
4) ETHNICITY AND HEALTH (*)
(Conflict - Transition - Integration)
3. Track Three: Trade And Health
1) WTO - Global pillage in the global village (*)
2) TRIPS - Patients or Patents
3) GATS - Privatization, Migration and Brain Drain
4) CAMPAIGN FOR ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL MEDICINES
4. Track Four: Health and the Environment
1) RIGHT TO WATER CAMPAIGN (*)
2) TOWARDS A TOXIC FREE WORLD
3) FOOD, NUTRITION AND BIO-DIVERSITY - The challenges (*)
4) ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS --CHALLENGES / RESPONSE
5. Track Five: Women & Health (Gender & Collective Health)* (Wgnrr)
1) WOMEN'S ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE CAMPAIGNS
2) WOMEN AND POPULATION POLICIES
3) WOMEN AND WORK - Labour Rights, Migration and Trafficking
4) WOMEN & VIOLENCE - A public health challenge
6. Track Six: Communicating / Training for Health [In draft Programme]
1) COMMUNICATIONS AS IF PEOPLE MATTERED (*)
2) PHM AND THE MEDIA : Morse code to sound bites
3) COMMUNITY RADIO AND PEOPLE'S THEATRE
4) TRAINING / EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR PHM (*) (towards a People's Health University) (Challenge to Universities)
7. Track Seven: Health Care of the Marginalised
1) PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES : the differently abled
2) THE GREYING WORLD - the uncared aged
3) MENTAL HEALTH
4) WAR, CONFLICT AND PEOPLE
8. Track Eight : Special Workshops
1) PEOPLE AND AFFORDABLE MEDICINE
2) SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
3) GLOBAL PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
4) GLOBAL POLICY INITIATIVES - A PHM response and critique
5.00 PLENARY SESSIONS
5.10 Draft Programme Circulated by PHA 2 IOC (24th November, 2004)
NB: Changes made in the headers within brackets are suggestions of Claudio and need to be ratified by the organizing committee
Day One: Health - A Fundamental Human Right
(United We Stand for Health as a Fundamental Human Right)
"Access to and quality of health is a reflection of a society's commitment to equity and justice. As a human right, health should prevail over narrow, inequitable economic concerns."
* Privatisation and Popular Resistance
(Strategies of Popular Resistance to Privatization)
* Free Trade Agreements and Health
(Free Trade Agreements are Inequitable for Health)
* Universal Access to quality services: the hospital crisis.
(The Struggle for Universal Access to Quality Hospital Care)
* Neo-liberal reforms in health systems
* (Countering Neo-liberal Reforms that Violate the Right to Health: Our fight for People's Health --Now!)
Day Two: Militarization, Occupation and Health
(Denouncing the Unacceptable Health Costs of Militarization and Military Occupation)
"Military build-up and imperialist designs destabilize, undermine and/or wipe out existing social, political, and economic structures and severely curtail the allocation of resources to the social sector."
Claudio suggested parallel sessions since participants will have different inclinations to attend and suggested
* Geopolitics: Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Colombia
(The Changing Geopolitics of World Conflicts: Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, Palestine, Sudan, and Colombia: Does it Matter What We Do?)
* Bloodshed across the generations
(War, Civilian casualties, Women and Children: The need to act on "No to War!")
* Direct impact of occupation and war on health
(Assessing the Impact of War and Occupation on Health as a First Step: What then?)
(Additional Plenary Suggested By Claudio)
Making International Trade Fairer For The Poor And For Health
"The benefits of Globalization and international trade are skewed in favour of the haves and almost none of the gains go to the welfare of the poor". (New suggested text)
* Campaign Issues on the : "No to the WTO" Movement
* Networking with the Progressive Anti-WTO Lobby
* Patients or Patents: WTO, TRIPS, FTAs and Access to Medicines
* A Public Trial of the World Trade Organisation
* Distribution of the draft 'Cuenca Declaration' for feedback
Day Three: Health and the Environment
(Opposing Preventable Environmental Degradation and its Negative Health Effects)
"Water and air pollution, rapid climate change, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and waste, toxic chemicals and pesticides, loss of biodiversity, deforestation and soil erosion have far-reaching effects on people's health"
* Public tribunal on the World Trade Organisation
* Leukaemia and Oil
* International Campaign: No to the WTO, No to War, Fight for People's Health, Health Now!
* Control of the Amazon: the reason for crop sprayings
(Claudio: "All forms of pollution, rapid climate change, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and waste, toxic chemicals and pesticides, loss of biodiversity, deforestation and soil erosion all have far-reaching effects on rich and poor people's health alike)
[Claudio: Topics proposed in preliminary program do not really point to a PHM agenda. I suggest that changes be made)
* [Proactive Networking with the Progressive Environmental Lobby
* Most Urgent Issues to Act On Now]
Day Four: Emerging and Re-emerging pandemics (Overcoming Emerging, Re-emerging and Ancient Pandemics)
"Illness and death every day anger us. Not because there are people who get sick or because there are people who die. We are angry because many illnesses and deaths have their roots in the economic and social policies that are imposed upon us
- (A voice from Central America)
* HIV/AIDS
* Tuberculosis
* Malaria
* Malnutrition
* The role of vertical programs in the failure of comprehensive Primary Health Care.
* Patients or Patents: WTO, FTA and access to medicine
Day Five: Voices and Participation of the People for a Healthier World
(Where the Voices and Action of the People for a Healthier World Ought to be Directed to in the Next Five Years)
1. The Voices And Participation Of The People For A Healthier World
* From Savar to Cuenca
* The People's Health Movement: its challenges
* Perspectives, struggles and STRATEGIES for the future.
(The People's Health Movement: Needed Commitments and the Challenges Ahead
(From Dhaka to Cuenca and Now Beyond)
Workshop-Seminars (links and bridges) Activities are arranged for the afternoons. Depending on the level of participation and interest, one or up to four afternoons will be set aside for them. Also, other activities are included which follow the framework of the Assembly yet have their own dynamism, organisation and participants.
6.00 SPECIAL INVITEES- SUGGESTIONS
A list of over 40 names is being considered.
7.00 ORGANIZING COMMISSIONS
7.10 International Organizing Committee Members and responsibilities (PHA 2 IOC Meeting 20-24 September Cuenca)
CONVENER MARIA HAMLIN ZUNIGA (NICARAGUA)
GENERAL COORDINATOR PHA 2 ARTURO QUIZPHE (ECUADOR)
PROGRAM COMMISSION EDUARDO ESPINOZA (EL SALVADOR)
LOGISTICS COMMISSION PREM JOHN (INDIA)
ANALYTICAL GROUP PATRICIA MORTON, GHW, (UNITED KINGDOM)
(INCLUDING BACKGROUND
BOOKLETS AND PAPERS)
COMMUNICATION'S COMMISSION UNNIKRISHNAN, (GLOBAL!)
(INCLUDING MEDIA)
REGIONAL MOBILIZATION COMMISSION SAMUEL OCHIENG (KENYA)
(PARTICULARLY AFRICA)
FUNDING COMMISSION BALASUBRAMANIAN, SRILANKA
(?SUPPORTED BY PHM SECRETARIAT TEAM, STEERING GROUP AND THE SECRETARIAT SUPPORT GROUP)
7.20 FUNDING COMMISSION (PHMS 21.10.2004)
PHM FUNDING GROUP
BALASUBRAMANIAN, CHAIRPERSON, SRILANKA
ANDY RUTHERFORD, UK, MEMBER
MARIA HAMLIN ZUNIGA, NICARAGUA, , MEMBER
RAVI NARAYAN, PHM SECRETARIAT COORDINATOR
OLLE NORDBERG, SWEDEN, MEMBER
PREM JOHN, PHM SECRETARIAT REPRESENTATIVE, PHA 2 IOC
QASEM CHOUDHARY, BANGLADESH, MEMBER
+ADDITIONAL COMMISSION MEMBERS
FRAN BAUM, AUSTRALIA, MEMBER (Australian Organizations)
SARAH SHANNON, USA, MEMBER (US Organizations)
MAIJA KAGIS, CANADA, MEMBER (Canadian Organizations)
HANI SERAG, EGYPT, MEMBER (Middle-Eastern Organizations)
SAROJINI, INDIA, MEMBER (Asian Organizations and Others)
MARGARITA POSADA, EL SALVADOR, MEMBER (Spanish Organizations)
RENE LOWENSEN, ZIMBABWE, MEMBER (African Organizations)
10.00 FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS
10.10 List of Agencies Contacted so far
1. ACTION AID AFRICA, JOHANNESBURG
2. ACTION AID ASIA, THAILAND
3. ACTION AID, GUATEMALA
4. AIFO, ITALY
5. AYUDA OBRERO SUISO, SWITZERLAND
6. CAFOD, UK
7. CHRISTIAN AID, UK
8. CIDA, CANADA
9. CORDAID, NETHERLANDS
10. DIAKONIA/BREAD FOR THE WORLD/MEDICUS MUNDI VALENCIA/ACTION AID (CENTRAL AMERICAN PROPOSAL)
11. FORD FOUNDATION
12. FOS, BELGIUM
13. GLOBAL FORUM FOR HEALTH RESEARCH, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
14. HEALTHLINKS/EXCHANGE, UK
15. HESPERIAN FOUNDATION, (FEW US AGENCIES)
16. ICCO, Netherlands
17. INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FUND, FINLAND
18. KELLOG FOUNDATION
19. MEDICIN DU MONDE, FRANCE
20. MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERE, FRANCE
21. MEDICO INTERNATIONAL, GERMANY
22. MISEREOR, GERMANY
23. NOVIB, Netherlands
24. NOVIB/WHO-EMRO (MIDDLE EASTERN PROPOSAL)
25. OXFAM, AUSTRALIA
25a. Rockefeller Foundation
26. SAVE THE CHILDREN, UK
27. SOLIDARE, PERU
28. SOLIDARIDAD INTERNACIONAL, SPAIN
29. SOROS FOUNDATION
30. TROCAIRE, IRELAND
31. WEMOS, NETHERLANDS
32. WHO, GENEVA (VARIOUS UNITS)
33. WOMENS GLOBAL FUND, US
11.00 REGIONAL MOBILIZATION AND EVENTS
Recently Concluded
October 2004
1. European Social Forum (patriciamorton at medact.org )
2. Canadian Society for International Health Conference(maria at iphcglobal.org )
November 2004
3. GFHR Forum 8 and Mexico Summit on Health Systems Research, Mexico City, 16th to 20th November, 2004 (PHM lunchtime session on PHA 2 and GHW) (secretariat at phmovement.org )
4. Dutch Social Forum, November, 2004 (contact WEMOS or WGNRR)
December 2004
5. Poverty and Health Conference, Berlin, Medico International, Germany (2nd to 4th December) (Andreas Wulf: wulf at medico.de ) (www.medico.de )
6. Meetings in Bielefeld, Bonn, Magdeburg and Berlin around Poverty and health Conference, above (contact: Andreas wulf at medico.de )
7. 25th Anniversary of American University of Beirut, Lebanon, on.... (David Sanders, Ghassan, Lanny) Special PHM session on PHM in Middle-east Region (PHA 2 and GHW were announced)
8. Jana Swasthya Abhiyan (PHM India) National Planning meeting 18th and 19th December, New Delhi (Indian regions participation in PHA 2 and GHW discussed)
FUTURE EVENTS (Information as of 13 January 2005)
January 2005
1. The Fourth International Health Forum in the defence of People's Health (23 to 25 January Porto Alegre, Brazil (contact: Armando armandon at portoweb.com.br )
2. The Fifth World Social Forum 5 (25th to 31 January Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Contacts
Amit Sen Gupta Email: ctddsf at vsnl.com
Lanny Smith, Email: vze2x6qm at verizon.net
3. A revised draft of the PHA program is expected.
4. PHM joining in the Globalization and Health proposal for a knowledge hub to assist WHO's Commission on the Social Determinant of Health.
February 2005
1. Health Civil Society in East and Southern Africa, First Regional Meeting February 17th to 19th 2005 in Zambia
[Will include South African Network on Equity in Health, People's Health Movement, Community Working Group in Health, Treatment action Campaign, Pan African Treatment Access Movement, Southern African Trade Union Coordinating Council, Health Action International, CHESSORE
(Contact: Rene Lowenson, email: rene at tarsc.org )
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