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PROGRAM PHA 2 ENGLISH VERSION
MARCH 13, 2005
DRAFT – DRAFT – DRAFT
OPENING CEREMONY
CEREMONY OF THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
MILLENIUM DECLARATION
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE´S OF THE WORLD
SUNDAY 17 JULY, 12:00 NOON
PUMAPUNGO PARK,
TUMIPAMBA (CUENCA) ECUADOR
SECTION I: MORNING PLENARY SESSIONS
MONDAY, JULY 18
Plenary I. a. : UNITED IN A CONCERTED ACTION FOR THE DEFENSE OF HEALTH AS A
FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT
President: To be named
Secretary: Dr. Jaime Breilh, CEAS, Ecuador
Testimonies:
We make an urgent call for testimonies related to:
· Privatization, the crisis in the attention to health;
· Free Trade Agreements and human rights;
· Loss of acquired rights;
· People’s resistance to neoliberal policies and mechanisms.
Panel: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER AND HEALTH
· How the model of accumulation of wealth/globalization is the negation
of human rights and the right tohealth.
· Consolidations of the struggle for models of international
relationships that are more equitable and respect the right to health.
· Phases of the struggle for universal access to quality primary health
care for all.
· Coordination and consolidation of strategies of popular resistance to
privatization of basic social services and against the exploitation of the
poor.
· Steps towards the collective construction, defense and expansion of
economic, social and cultural rights upon which the quality of life and health
are based.
Open discussion with public participation
Plenary I. b. POINTS OF ENCOUNTER OF HEALTH AND CULTURE: A CRITICAL
INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE.
Towards the construction of a critical health movement integrated into the
local culture.
President:
Secretary: Dr. Jaime Idrovo U. , Ecuador
Testimonies:
The right to health of the indigenous peoples of the world
Cuchunchi: Our cosmic culture.
The cosmovision and the integral health of the Cañari people.
Music and dance: Kawasamunchik of Cañar.
A call is made for representations and/or testimonies from: Australia, North
America, Central America, Australia, Africa, Asia.
Panel: COSMOVISION OF THE ORIGINAL PEOPLES OF THE WORLD.
· People, Culture and Health.
· How to work towards the construction of a critical and integral health
movement.
· The integration of traditional and natural medicine and bioenergetics
into the health system. What needs to be done?
· The integration of paradigms as the way to achieve equity.
TUESDAY, JULY 19
Plenary II. a. : WE DENOUNCE THE FACTS OF AND UNITE OUR ACTIONS AGAINST
MILITARIZATION AND MILITARY OCCUPATION AND THEIR UNACCEPTABLE IMPACTS ON
HEALTH.
President: To be named
Secretary: Dr. Adolfo Maldonado, Ecuador
Testimonies:
· We call for personal testimonies, videos, photos and music concerning
experiences in actual conflicts. Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Colombia,
Nepal, the Philippines, Sudan.
· Militarization at the service of transnational corporations: Ecuador
and Nigeria.
· Detainees, disappeared and impunity: The case of Pinochet in Chile.
· Military bases: imposition of fear.
· Biological weapons.
Panel: MILITARIZATION, WAR AND OCCUPATION.
· Military conflicts at the service of the changing geopolitical
context.
· Militarization as an element of the new model of accumulation and
hegemony.
· Global mapping of contemporary conflicts.
· The arms industry and military expenditure.
· Opposition to armed conflict and occupation and their effects on
health with special attention to women and children.
Open discussion with public participation
Plenary II. b. : GLOBALIZATION, WORK AND HEALTH.
President: To be named
Secretary: Dr. Oscar Betancourt, FUNSAD, Ecuador
Testimonies
· Healthy work, employment, underemployment: Consequences on the health
and life of workers.
· Work, identity and labor migration.
· Child labor.
· Challenges for women: employment and domestic labor.
Testimonies from Venezuela and Argentina.
We call for testimonies from other continents.
Panel: GLOBALIZATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON WORK AND HEALTH.
· The work environment and programs for the workers: the case of
Venezuela.
· Sickness and death in the workplace.
· Externalization of the work of women.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
Plenary III a. : WE OPPOSE ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND ITS NEGATIVE EFFECTS
ON HEALTH.
President: To be named
Secretary: Dra. Elizabeth Bravo, Acción Ecologica, Ecuador
Testimonies: The multiple effects of environmental degradation.
· Transnationalization, accumulation of capital and the destruction of
nature.
· Threats against the biodiversity.
· Exploitation and destruction of sources of water.
· Petroleum and health.
Testimonies are being collected from Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, Central
America, South Africa, India, and the Philippines.
Panel: ENVIRONMENTAL DEGREDATION AND HEALTH.
· Extractive industries and health problems.
· Fumigation: the effects on people and the environment.
· Biological weapons.
· Global Climate change and health.
· Genetically modified organisms.
Open discussion with public participation
Plenary III. b. : TOWARDS THE RESURRECTION OF THE SPIRIT OF HEALTH FOR ALL.
President: To be named
Secretary: To be named
Testimonies:
We call for testimonies from around the world concerning:
The child survival revolution and the effects of structural adjustment
programs. Survival vs. quality of life.
Examples of effective social mobilization for comprehensive Primary Health
Care.
Identifying and counteracting the enemies of comprehensive Primary Health Care.
Primary Health Care in conflict zones: Palestine and Chiapas.
Panel: CHALLENGES FACED BY THE PHM TO REVIVE THE SPIRIT OF ALMA ATA: HOW,
WHERE, WHEN? WITH WHAT STRATEGIC ALLIANCES?
Open discussion with public participation
THURSDAY, JULY 21
Plenary IV. a.: TOWARDS VICTORY IN OVERCOMING EMERGING, RE-EMERGING AND
ANCIENT PANDEMICS.
President: Dr. David Sanders
Secretary: To be named
Testimonies: HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis, and Malnutrition.
We call for testimonies on responses in terms of Primary Health Care
in the face of epidemics, the adequacy of health systems and available human
resources.
· Rabies and Bubonic Plague, Ecuador.
· HIV/AIDS and malaria in Africa.
· Hunger and malnutrition, India.
· Antibiotic resistant Tuberculosis, Peru/Haiti.
· Asian Bird flu.
Panel: VERTICAL PROGRAMS VS COMPREHENSIVE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN THE CASE OF
EPIDEMICS.
A critical vision of vertical programs; how to influence real change in the
Global Fund, the UN, WHO and bilateral cooperation.
Comprehensive Primary Health Care: what are the commitments necessary in 2005?
Hunger and Malnutrition: the forgotten pandemic.
Open discussion with public participation
Plenary IV. b.: SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND GENDER VIOLENCE.
President: Sarojini, SAMA, India
Secretary: Cuenca women’s group
Testimonies
A call is made to present testimonies on social, political and gender
violence from different continents.
Panel: SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND GENDER VIOLENCE.
· Women and Violence: a public health challenge.
· Political violence, social symptoms and capacity for resistance.
· Poverty, gender, violence, globalization and human rights in relation
to mental health.
· What can gentics promise in an unequal and unjust world?
Open discussion with public participation
FRIDAY, JULY 22
Plenary V. a. : THE VOICES OF THE PLANET CALL US TO SHOW GREATER COMMITMENT
TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF A HEALTHIER WORLD.
President: Dr. Fran Baum
Secretary: To be named
Testimonies: Lessons learned in the five years of PHM from the major regions
of the world.
Panel: ROLE OF THE PEOPLE´S HEALTH MOVEMENT IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
PHM challenges and commitments needed for the future.
Strategic plan for PHM.
Role of internal and external communications in the future.
Conclusions and recommendations.
The Cuenca Declaration.
Open discussion with public participation
Plenary V. b. : THE VOICES OF THE PLANET CALL US TO SHOW GREATER COMMITMENT
TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF A HEALTHIER WORLD. SAME TITLE???
President: To be named
Secretary: To be named
This plenary will be held simultaneously and will cover the same themes as
Plenary a. It will be connected to that plenary through a live
videoconference.
It will involve persons who are not PHM delegates but have been active in the
discussions during the week. This will include the conclusions and
recommendations of the Children’s Forum, the Youth Forum, the Intercultural
Dialogue, and so on.
SECTION II: AFTERNOON WORKSHOP SESSIONS
TRACK ONE: EQUITY AND PEOPLE´S HEALTH
I. 1. THE ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY AND THE DEFICIENCIES AND LIMITATIONS OF THE
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
· Case studies on the reality of poverty reduction, alleviation or
eradication at the grassroots level.
· Broken promises and recycled slogans or real commitments.
· Structures of power and inequity in health: analysis of the roots of
the problem.
· Formulating the “Peoples Development Goals”.
· Proposals for the PHM.
I. 2. GLOBAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST POVERTY
· Promotion of the campaign against poverty.
· Case study on East Africa and the responsibility of the World Bank and
the IMF.
· Proposals for the PHM.
I.3. PROMOTING COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FOR POLICY CHANGE
· Case studies concerning community based empowerment.
· Health policies and inequities in health: a new public health in
France and Quebec.
· Health improvements based on empowerment and equity.
· Proposals for the PHM.
I.4. a. THE GLOBAL HEALTH WATCH
· Exchange of experiences between the GHW UK and that of Latin America.
· Regional and country reports.
· Strategies for the future.
Facilitation Group
Global Health Watch, UK
CEAS, Ecuador
I.4.b. GLOBAL POLITICAL INITIATIVES
· WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, Millennium Development
Goals and the 3 X 5 Initiative.
· WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Global public-
private initiatives.
· A response from the people’s perspective.
TRACK TWO: INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS ON HEALTH
II. 1. TRADITIONAL MEDICINE AND HEALTH
· Natural, traditional and bioenergetic practices.
· Genetic patrimony and popular knowledge.
· Self help practices and intercultural dialogue.
· The Chicha ceremony, the sacred drink of the Andean peoples. *
Rikcharina
II.2. a. DIALOGUE ON KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES.
There will be workshops, demonstrations, and practical applications based on
conceptions of health and our diverse cosmovisions
Facilitation Group
Dr. Hugo Cañar, Ecuador
Karina Precioso,
Representatives of other Indigenous peoples.
II.2.b. LIVING EXAMPLES OF HEALTH-BASED INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGES
· Construction of the ritual altar kichwas de korikancha.
· Understanding and wisdom: planetary human patrimony.
· Search for and learning about intercultural understanding: the
knowledge of health and medicine.
Facilitation Group
Faculty of Education of Andean culture
Representatives of other Indigenous peoples.
II.3. NUTRITION, FOOD AND HEALTH
· Tactics for the promotion and strengthening of food sovereignty.
· Exchange of experiences and practices in the struggle against
malnutrition.
· Nutrition in ancestral treatments.
· Proposals for the PHM.
Facilitation Group
Taitas y Mamas Yachaks
Survival, Friends of the Earth, Uruguay
Representatives of other Indigenous peoples.
II. 4. BIOENERGETIC MEDICINE: PRACTICES OF THE HOMA THERAPY.
Venue: “Kancha” of the Pumapungo Park
THIS EVENT IS DIRECTED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
Daily workshops from 17:30 to 19:30 hours Monday through Thursday.
· Group healing practices with Bioenergetics.
· Human health: psychotherapy, physical diseases, preparation of Homa
medicine.
· Agriculture, effects of plants, insects, fertilizers, seed treatments.
· Livestock: effects of the feed in livestock, treatment of plagues,
production of milk.
· Ecology: purification of the atmosphere, the water sources, the soil,
reestablishment of the bioenergetic harmonic cycle of the universe.
Facilitation Group
Dr Abel Hernández, USA
Therapist Aleta Macan
Representatives of other Indigenous peoples.
TRACK THREE: TRADE AND HEALTH
III.1. CAMPAIGN FOR ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL MEDICINES
· Report on study of medicine pricing and affordability of medicines.
· Exporting/dumping medicines on the poor countries.
Facilitation Group
Marg Ewen, HAI Europe
BUKO Pharma-Kampagne
Oscar Lanzas, AIS, Bolivia
III.2. MIGRATION, PRIVATIZATION AND THE BRAIN DRAIN.
· European campaign against privatization: GATS and privatization.
· Privatization in other parts of the world.
· Proposals for the PHM.
Facilitation Group
PHM Europe
PHM India
III.3. PATIENTS OR PATENTS: FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS AND HEALTH
· Repercussion of the FTA on the health of people.
· Global sacking of the global village: WTO, TRIPS, and FTAs.
· Proposals for the PHM
Facilitation Group
Gilles de Wildt, Medact
Medicos sin Frontera
Third World Network
TRACK FOUR: HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Facilitation Group for track four is Accion Ecologica, Ecuador and
collaborators.
IV.1. EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES AND HEALTH
Objectives:
· Impacts on health of the activities related to intensive extraction of
natural resources (Petroleum and mining).
· Compatiboity of these activities with other forms of production and
their impact on the population.
· Role of the transnational companies and the possibilities to demand
respect for human rights.
· Proposals for the PHM.
IV.2.a. GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES.
· Dangers for health from new technologies.
· Proposals for the PHM.
IV.2.b. THE RIGHT TO WATER
· Activities responsible for the contamination of water, the degradation
of aquifers, and ecosystems related to the collection of water. Is there
scarcity or not?
· Institutions and actors, the processes and initiatives that promote
privatization of water. Water as an environmental service.
· Mega projects for water. The control of aquifers.
· Proposals for PHM.
IV. 3.a. PESTICIDES AND TOXIC WASTES
· Impacts on health of the use of pesticides.
· Problems of dependence of the Green Revolution.
· The use of pesticides as chemical weapons. Plan Colombia and its
fumigations.
· Proposals for the PHM.
IV.3.b. EPIDEMIOLOGY VS. EPIDEMIOLOGY
The case against Texaco in Ecuador
Facilitation Group
· Acción Ecológica, Ecuador
· CEAS, Ecuador
IV.4.a. CLIMATE CHANGE, SOCIAL AND NATURAL DISASTERS: CHALLENGES AND
RESPONSES.
· Diseases and risks related to global climate change.
· The Carbon market as a form of not assuming responsibility for climate
change.
· Case studies of social and natural disasters and community-based
responses.
IV.4.b. SEEDS, A FUTURE UNDER THREAT
· Food sovereignty and security.
· Biodiversity, seeds, and alternative agricultural policies.
TRACK FIVE: GENDER, WOMEN AND HEALTH SECTOR REFORM
Facilitation Group for Track Five
Nadie van der Linde, WGNRR
Leticia Artiles, ALAMES, Gender commission
V.1 GLOBALIZATION, REFORM AND THE RIGHT TO HEALTH.
· Citizen Participation in Health and the law: sexual and reproductive
rights, occupational health, mental health, social security.
· Health care financing and the rights of women: the invisible costs of
illness.
· Environment, ethnic diversity, sexual diversity and lack of health
protection.
· Masculine identities and paternity.
· Proposals for the PHM.
V.2 WOMEN AND PUBLIC POLICIES.
Report on progress of women with respect to the Population and
Development Conference (Cairo) and Women’s Conference (Beijing)
· Proposals for the PHM.
V.3 CAMPAIGN FOR GENDER SENSITIVE HEALTH POLICIES:
· Evaluation and proposals concerning the campaign for gender and
public policies for health of the WGNRR and PHM.
· Proposals for the PHM.
TRACK SIX: TRAINING AND COMMUNICATION FOR HEALTH.
VI.1. TRAINING AND AN EDUCATIONAL STRATEGY FOR PHM.
· Exchange of experiences on the strategies for training and education
in the PHM.
· The challenge for the universities in the transformation of the
hegemonic training model to one for social and egalitarian health.
· The International People’s Health University.
· Alternatives for training and preparation of activists for health.
· Proposals for the PHM.
VI.2. EDU-COMMUNICATION AND HEALTH.
· Community radio and popular theater.
· Case studies of community radio.
· Challenges for PHM.
Facilitation group:
Comunicandonos Team, Ecuador
VI.3. ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN THE HEGEMONY OF THE CAPITALIST MEDICAL MODEL
· Proposals for the PHM.
Facilitation group:
Charles Briggs, Center for Latin American Studies, Univ. of California, USA
CEAS, Ecuador
VI.4. COMMUNICATION CENTERED ON THE COMMUNITY.
· How to best use the media for PHM advocacy and action.
· Reflections on the PHM communication strategies: past, present, and
future.
· Proposals for the PHM.
Facilitation group:
PHM Communications Team
TRACK SEVEN: HEALTH CARE AS IF PEOPLE MATTERED.
VII.1. PERSONS WITH SPECIAL CAPACITIES/ DIFFERENT CAPACITIES.
· Recognizing special capacities and different capacities.
· Testimonies and case studies.
· Migration and different capacities.
· Application of regulations and the right to work.
· Proposals for the PHM.
Facilitation group
Nance Upham, PHM Europe
Hasheem Mannan
Sunnil Deepak, AIFO, Italy
Cuenca coordination committee on disabilities
VII.2. REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS.
· War, conflict socicial and natural disasters.
· Case studies: experiences, difficulties and challenges.
· The Tsunami.
· Plan Colombia, Plan Patriot: Testimonies of mothers and children.
· Proposals for the PHM.
Facilitation group
· Disaster Circle PHM
· MEDACT
VII.3. THE GRAYING WORLD: NEEDS OF OLDER PEOPLE.
· Poverty, gender and human rights issues among older persons.
· Integration of older persons into the PHM.
· Proposals for the PHM.
TRACK EIGHT: HEALTH IN PEOPLE´S HANDS.
VIII.1 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: THE ENGINE FOR STRUCTURAL CHANGES.
· From local experiences to global mobilization.
· Primary health care, health systems and human talents.
· Methodologies of training rural and/or indigenous community health
workers.
· From symptoms to treatment.
· Proposals for the PHM.
Facilitation group
· Philip Tavernier, Sombrero, (México)
VIII.2. EXERIENCES IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
· Health in the hands of the people. Family and community health. *
Peasant Social Security, Ecuador
· Commercialization: basic packages for health. Popular social
security schemes. * Mexico
· Proposals for the PHM.
Facilitation group
Marcela Bobatto. LAICRIMPO Argentina
VIII.3 HEALTH AND ECOSYSTEMS.
· Scientific and cultural paradigm shifts.
· Conceptual aspects: theory and practice of PHC in the Ecosystem.
· Political, ethical, strategic considerations and tools to carry out
PHC in agreement with the ecosystem.
· Cross disciplinary aspects of health and the ecosystem.
· Proposals for the PHM.
Facilitators
· Julio Monsalvo, Argentina
· Sandra Isabel Payàn, Colombia
· Fundación Ecológica Rikcharina, Ecuador
VIII.4 THE HEALTH NOW CAMPAIGN.
· Evaluation and planning of the campaigns for Health For All Now, and
No to War, No to the WTO.
· Proposals for the PHM.
Facilitation Group
· Bert de Belder, Intel, Belgium
· Unnikrishnan PHM, India
TRACK NINE: SPECIAL WORKSHOPS OF THE PHM
IX.1 Experiences and organizational strategies of the PHM.
· Experiences of the organization and strategies of the PHM in all
regions.
· Elements for regional and global strategic action plans.
· Twenty four new national circles functioning by late 2006.
IX.1.a. Monday, July 18: The experiences of the Americas.
IX.1.b. Tuesday, July 19: The experiences of Europe, Africa and the Middle
East.
IX.1.c. Wednesday, July 20: The experiences of Asia and the Pacific.
PHM REGIONAL AND COUNTRY MEETINGS.
Each day there will be time and space allotted for discussions of PHM
organizational issues and movement building. This will include regional
meetings, interregional exchanges, circle meetings and so on.
IX.2. Strategic regional plans and recommendations for the Global PHM
Thursday, July 21.
· Collection and analysis of all proposals for the PHM.
· Draft conclusions, recommendations and plan of action.
IX.3. Report on the Global Children’s Forum.
Thursday, July 21.
· Proposals for the PHM.
· Conclusions, recommendations and plan of action.
XI.4. Report on the Youth Forum
Thursday, July 21.
· Proposals for the PHM.
· Conclusions, recommendations and plan of action.
For further information please contact
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www.phmovment.org
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