PHA-Exch> Re: Copy of Alternate World Health Report

Tue Sep 16 07:26:51 PDT 2008

Dear Shiv,
Great of your offer!
The secretariat in Cairo should be f/u with you.
 Claudio
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Shiv Mathur <shiv_mathur at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Sir,
> I shall greatly appreciate if a copy of latest Global Health Report may
> lease be provided.
> I am available to translate it in Hindi for circulation in India.
> With regards,
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> Dr. Shiv Chandra Mathur
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> Professor of Preventive and Social Medicine
> 408 Rani Sati Nagar,JAIPUR 302019, India.
> Cell: +91 -9414055607
> Residence Telephone: +91-141-2811551
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> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:27:36 +0700
> From: cschuftan at phmovement.org
> To: pha-exchange at phm.kabissa.org
> Subject: PHA-Exch> Call for PHM networks to participate in the GHW2
> Launching - GUIDELINES for the launching by PHM circles
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> REMINDER:
> From: *PHM Global Secretariat* secretariat at phmovement.org
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>  *A Call for all PHM networks to participate in *
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> Launching the Global Health Watch 2
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> The Global Secretariat of the People's Health Movement (PHM) jointly with
> the Secretariat of the Global Health Watch 2 (GHW2) call upon all PHM
> country circles and networks to participate in the launching of the GHW2.
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> The GHW
> Global Health Watch is a collaboration of leading popular movements and
> nongovernmental organizations comprising civil society activists, community
> groups, health workers and academics. It has compiled the second edition of
> its alternative world health report – a hard-hitting, evidence-based
> analysis of the political economy of health and health care – as a challenge
> to major global bodies that influence health. Its monitoring of institutions
> including the World Bank, the World Health Organization and UNICEF reveals
> that while some important initiatives are being taken, much more needs to be
> done to have any hope of meeting the UN's health related Millennium
> Development Goals.
> The launching
> The PHM Global Secretariat is urging all PHM country circles to use the
> opportunity of launching the GHW2 for further mobilization around the PHM
> principles and activism on country level. This would entail organizing a
> wide range of pre-launching activities, linking the launching to big planned
> events, organizing the launch, if stands alone, to discuss and promote the
> content of the GHW2 rather than just launching it.
> The launching activities will start during the second half of October till
> the end of the year 2008. Each PHM country circle or group would decide upon
> a launching date, may be in linkage to other planned national activity.
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> The overview is currently available in English and being translated into
> Arabic (by the PHM global secretariat), German (by Medico International),
> Italian (by AIFO), and Spanish (Coordinated by Maria Zuniga). We would like
> to have volunteers to translate it into other possible languages.
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> Suggested guidelines for Launching the Global Health Watch 2 (GHW2)
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> The PHM country focal point / coordinating group may find the below
> guidelines useful.
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> *Pre-Launching activities at the country level*
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>       Identify national partners for the GHW launching activities. The
> nature of partners would vary from a country to another. Broad categories
> would include:
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> o   Civil society organizations, networks or movements
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> o   Non-governmental non-for-profit organizations
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> o   Trade unions
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> o   Professional syndicates
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> o   Professional organizations
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> o   Political parties
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>       Call for preparatory meeting for the identified partners. The
> meeting can be divided into two sections:
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> o   An introductory presentation on the GHW2
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> o   Semi-structured group discussion that would focus on reaching
> consensus around:
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> §     should we launch the GHW?
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> §     should we use the launching for local and national mobilization?
> How? (Detailed plan for the launching).
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> §     who else should we invite to join this process?
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> §     how can we contribute to the future GHWs?
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> §     how can we develop a country watch for violation of right to health?
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> *Launching activities*
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> The launching activities will definitely vary from a country to another
> according to the consensus among the different country groups. The following
> suggestions would be only useful as guidelines.
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>       One or two-day event during which,
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> o      A session can introduce the global health crises, the importance of
> an alternative world health report, the GHW2 (brief to the contents, main
> messages and needed actions).
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> o      A session or more on the major country specific health problems and
> health determinants (having testimonies highlighting violation of right to
> health is always important).
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> o      A final session to discuss the utilization of the GHW2 and the
> development of a national watch dog for violation of right to health.
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>       Display area that would provide a space for participant
> organizations and networks to present their own posters, publications,
> photographs, etc.
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>       Culture evening(s): artistic shows would be organized in the
> evenings of the days of launching days.
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> Announcing for and documenting the launching events:
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>       The PHM website should be used massively to announce for the
> launching in different countries. To be able to do that, we do need short
> plans from the focal points of the PHM country circles that will be
> committed to launching.
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>       We urge the focal points of the country circles to provide short
> coverage in form of reports and photos for the launching event. The reports
> should document the process, the major themes of the launching event and any
> plans of action for the future. These reports and photos will be uploaded on
> the PHM website.
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> In addition, we can dedicate one issue of the PHM Newsbrief for covering
> the launching events in different countries.
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> *Launching package*
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> The PHM Global Secretariat jointly with the GHW Secretariat will do their
> best to make the following available for each country circle.
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>       20 copies of the GHW2. Note: The GHW2 secretariat will make 20
> copies available for each country for free, however the launching organizers
> will need to take care of the costs of posting the copies from the publisher
> in UK
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>       100 soft copies of the GHW2 on CDs.
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>       Copies of PHM and GHW2 posters.
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>       100 copies of the GHW2 Executive Summary. The Executive Summary
> will be available in 4 languages (English, Spanish, French and Arabic). Note:
> Each country circle would indicate the preferred language. We urge all PHM
> country circles to propose translating, printing and disseminating the
> summary in their own language. This will also need mobilizing funds.
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>       Copies of the main PHM documents (PHM flyer in English; People's
> Charter for Health in English; French and Arabic; Cuenca Declaration in
> English, Spanish and Arabic; Mumbai Declaration in English and Arabic; and
> Global Health Action 1 in English, French, Spanish and Arabic) can be posted
> to the country circles upon request.
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