PHA-Exchange> Update on PHM's Global Right to Health Care Campaign

[Claudio]

Dear all,

Although you have not heard from us in a while, the People's Health Movement has indeed been making progress in the launching of the RTHC campaign.

We have a core group of four (in the Netherlands, the US, India and Vietnam) now working on several fronts; this group will expand by two more from other regions in the near future.

In January, we finalized the proposal for the Campaign with an accompanying executive summary (If you want copies, pls login to www.phmovement.org and look for the Right to Health Campaign link).

The RTH campaign was ratified by PHM leadership to make it an official PHM campaign. 

We have since sent out four funding proposals to different organizations especially, but not only, to help us with seed money to launch the RTH country asessments we want to carry out in about 40 countries. We have had one positive response so far.

We have been working with the Dutch NGO HOM on the instrument to carry out these country assessments so we have a more or less standardized tool to use.  This work will probably take another month. If anybody is interested in contributing to its developement, drop me a note and I can send you a copy (3.5 mega due to some graphics).

We remind you that launching the country assessments will be done in parallell with starting-up/strenghtning national PHM circles that will take the responsibility for carrying out the same and summarizing the results.

We hope you will become involved if you are in one of those 40 countries. The list of the same is not fixed yet, because, to increase our chances of getting funding, we are offering the funders to consider their country preferences. The final decision will be with us though.

Looking forward to a successful Campaign.

Very cordially, 
Claudio Schuftan in Ho Chi Minh City
claudio at hcmc.netnam.vn  


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