From cschuftan at phmovement.org Sat Jan 30 00:07:09 2010 From: cschuftan at phmovement.org (Claudio Schuftan) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:07:09 +0700 Subject: PHM-Exch> =?windows-1252?q?DFID=92s_Development_Innovation_Fund?= =?windows-1252?q?=3A_A_Funding_Opportunity_for_Small_NGOs?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ------------------------------ DFID?s Development Innovation Fund: A Funding Opportunity for Small NGOs DFID?s Development Innovation Fund: A Funding Opportunity for Small NGOs DFID announces Development Innovation Fund for Small NGOs Deadline: No deadline Developing Countries and the UK DFID is specially offering small NGOs and groups with this Fund?Small organizations who otherwise find it difficult to access DFID?s main funding streams can apply for support?up to 100% support available to cover total project costs and the application process has also been kept simple?[more] Contact: http://www.fundsforngos.org/latest-funds-for-ngos/dfids-development-innovation-fund-an-opportunity-for-small-ngos/ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cschuftan at phmovement.org Sat Jan 30 22:03:55 2010 From: cschuftan at phmovement.org (Claudio Schuftan) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:03:55 +0700 Subject: PHM-Exch> =?windows-1252?q?Food_for_a_like-minded-activists=92_th?= =?windows-1252?q?ought?= Message-ID: Human Rights Reader 232 *ACTIONS AND ACTIVISM IN FOSTERING GENUINE GRASSROOTS PARTICIPATION IN HEALTH AND NUTRITION.* Effective action requires not just an enthusiasm, but calls for a close rapport with the disgruntled so as to get them organized. (A. Robbins) 1. You may often have asked yourself as to whether your individual contribution in the field of health and/or nutrition makes or is making any difference. This, of course, depends. Alone, each of us is indeed helpless to change very much. Standing alone to-right-the-world?s-wrongs is a false ideal. We have thus plenty to learn from the lessons of mutuality or even of militancy. Individual concern (let alone compassion?) is just clearly less powerful than organized solidarity. (Tikkun) Or, to use an old adage, 'divided we beg, united we demand'..... You can find the full text of this reader by clicking on: http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/ Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan at phmovement.org *Postscript:* I am the first to recognize that the Human Rights Readers are often repetitive. But not so in a mechanical way! Repetition in the Readers is rather through emphasizing the same point from different angles and perspectives. It is my experience that this is the way for HR concepts to ?sink-in? so that you, the reader, begin *using these concepts* in your interaction with others. That, I see, is the ultimate goal in action-oriented HR learning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is likely that Australia is one of its targets, argues health economist Professor Gavin Mooney. > He writes: > > ?Cuba, with a per capita national income of a quarter of that of Australia, > has ?*more than 51,000 Cuban doctors*and health care professionals working around the world today, primarily in > developing nations?. > > I would therefore doubt that the World Health Organization Executive Board > * *had Cuba in mind when last week it expressed concerns about the flow of > doctors and other health care workers from poor to rich countries and > proposed a revised (and tougher) draft code of practice on health care > worker migration to submit to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, in May > 2010. > > The WHO Board *recommended*that: ?countries should abstain from active international recruitment of > health personnel unless equitable bilateral, regional, or multilateral > agreement(s) exist to support such recruitment activities.? > > It added that ?voluntary technical and financial mechanisms to strengthen > the development of health systems in developing countries and countries with > economies in transition are proposed?. > > But I?ll bet one of the targets of this policy is Australia ? or at least > the Australian Medical Association. > > Late last year the WA AMA website carried *an announcement* > of a ?spotter > fee? of $3000 for any doctor who succeeded in attracting an overseas doctor > to Australia. There Professor Gary Geelhoed, the President of the WA AMA, > was quoted as saying that ?if anyone knew of an overseas doctor with the > necessary qualifications who was interested in coming to Australia, they > only had to contact the doctor and email his or her details to the AMA (WA). > The association would do the rest.? > > Now that would be a pretty weird idea if the overseas doctor were coming > from the UK or Canada but if it were Ghana or South Africa it borders on the > disgusting. > > Having spent many months in South Africa in recent years and seen the > enormous health problems that exist there and the lack of trained staff to > deal with these problems, how low can the AMA fall in seeking to bribe > Australian doctors to deplete the numbers of already over worked doctors in > such low and middle income countries? > > The idea of a ?spotter?s fee? sucks but, as an absolute minimum, can we be > assured by the WA AMA President that in future no such fee will be paid if > the doctor is from a developing country? > > OK, in Australia we maybe cannot reverse the current trend of importing > doctors and ?do a Cuba? by instead exporting thousands of doctors to low and > middle income countries. > > But, then, damn it, why not?? > > *? 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Individual concern (let alone compassion?) is just clearly less powerful than organized solidarity. (Tikkun) Or, to use an old adage, 'divided we beg, united we demand'..... You can find the full text of this reader by clicking on: http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/ Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan at phmovement.org *Postscript:* I am the first to recognize that the Human Rights Readers are often repetitive. But not so in a mechanical way! Repetition in the Readers is rather through emphasizing the same point from different angles and perspectives. It is my experience that this is the way for HR concepts to ?sink-in? so that you, the reader, begin *using these concepts* in your interaction with others. That, I see, is the ultimate goal in action-oriented HR learning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is likely that Australia is one of its targets, argues health economist Professor Gavin Mooney. > He writes: > > ?Cuba, with a per capita national income of a quarter of that of Australia, > has ?*more than 51,000 Cuban doctors*and health care professionals working around the world today, primarily in > developing nations?. > > I would therefore doubt that the World Health Organization Executive Board > * *had Cuba in mind when last week it expressed concerns about the flow of > doctors and other health care workers from poor to rich countries and > proposed a revised (and tougher) draft code of practice on health care > worker migration to submit to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, in May > 2010. > > The WHO Board *recommended*that: ?countries should abstain from active international recruitment of > health personnel unless equitable bilateral, regional, or multilateral > agreement(s) exist to support such recruitment activities.? > > It added that ?voluntary technical and financial mechanisms to strengthen > the development of health systems in developing countries and countries with > economies in transition are proposed?. > > But I?ll bet one of the targets of this policy is Australia ? or at least > the Australian Medical Association. > > Late last year the WA AMA website carried *an announcement* > of a ?spotter > fee? of $3000 for any doctor who succeeded in attracting an overseas doctor > to Australia. There Professor Gary Geelhoed, the President of the WA AMA, > was quoted as saying that ?if anyone knew of an overseas doctor with the > necessary qualifications who was interested in coming to Australia, they > only had to contact the doctor and email his or her details to the AMA (WA). > The association would do the rest.? > > Now that would be a pretty weird idea if the overseas doctor were coming > from the UK or Canada but if it were Ghana or South Africa it borders on the > disgusting. > > Having spent many months in South Africa in recent years and seen the > enormous health problems that exist there and the lack of trained staff to > deal with these problems, how low can the AMA fall in seeking to bribe > Australian doctors to deplete the numbers of already over worked doctors in > such low and middle income countries? > > The idea of a ?spotter?s fee? sucks but, as an absolute minimum, can we be > assured by the WA AMA President that in future no such fee will be paid if > the doctor is from a developing country? > > OK, in Australia we maybe cannot reverse the current trend of importing > doctors and ?do a Cuba? by instead exporting thousands of doctors to low and > middle income countries. > > But, then, damn it, why not?? > > *? 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Individual concern (let alone compassion?) is just clearly less powerful than organized solidarity. (Tikkun) Or, to use an old adage, 'divided we beg, united we demand'..... You can find the full text of this reader by clicking on: http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/ Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan at phmovement.org *Postscript:* I am the first to recognize that the Human Rights Readers are often repetitive. But not so in a mechanical way! Repetition in the Readers is rather through emphasizing the same point from different angles and perspectives. It is my experience that this is the way for HR concepts to ?sink-in? so that you, the reader, begin *using these concepts* in your interaction with others. That, I see, is the ultimate goal in action-oriented HR learning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is likely that Australia is one of its targets, argues health economist Professor Gavin Mooney. > He writes: > > ?Cuba, with a per capita national income of a quarter of that of Australia, > has ?*more than 51,000 Cuban doctors*and health care professionals working around the world today, primarily in > developing nations?. > > I would therefore doubt that the World Health Organization Executive Board > * *had Cuba in mind when last week it expressed concerns about the flow of > doctors and other health care workers from poor to rich countries and > proposed a revised (and tougher) draft code of practice on health care > worker migration to submit to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, in May > 2010. > > The WHO Board *recommended*that: ?countries should abstain from active international recruitment of > health personnel unless equitable bilateral, regional, or multilateral > agreement(s) exist to support such recruitment activities.? > > It added that ?voluntary technical and financial mechanisms to strengthen > the development of health systems in developing countries and countries with > economies in transition are proposed?. > > But I?ll bet one of the targets of this policy is Australia ? or at least > the Australian Medical Association. > > Late last year the WA AMA website carried *an announcement* > of a ?spotter > fee? of $3000 for any doctor who succeeded in attracting an overseas doctor > to Australia. There Professor Gary Geelhoed, the President of the WA AMA, > was quoted as saying that ?if anyone knew of an overseas doctor with the > necessary qualifications who was interested in coming to Australia, they > only had to contact the doctor and email his or her details to the AMA (WA). > The association would do the rest.? > > Now that would be a pretty weird idea if the overseas doctor were coming > from the UK or Canada but if it were Ghana or South Africa it borders on the > disgusting. > > Having spent many months in South Africa in recent years and seen the > enormous health problems that exist there and the lack of trained staff to > deal with these problems, how low can the AMA fall in seeking to bribe > Australian doctors to deplete the numbers of already over worked doctors in > such low and middle income countries? > > The idea of a ?spotter?s fee? sucks but, as an absolute minimum, can we be > assured by the WA AMA President that in future no such fee will be paid if > the doctor is from a developing country? > > OK, in Australia we maybe cannot reverse the current trend of importing > doctors and ?do a Cuba? by instead exporting thousands of doctors to low and > middle income countries. > > But, then, damn it, why not?? > > *? 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Individual concern (let alone compassion?) is just clearly less powerful than organized solidarity. (Tikkun) Or, to use an old adage, 'divided we beg, united we demand'..... You can find the full text of this reader by clicking on: http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/ Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan at phmovement.org *Postscript:* I am the first to recognize that the Human Rights Readers are often repetitive. But not so in a mechanical way! Repetition in the Readers is rather through emphasizing the same point from different angles and perspectives. It is my experience that this is the way for HR concepts to ?sink-in? so that you, the reader, begin *using these concepts* in your interaction with others. That, I see, is the ultimate goal in action-oriented HR learning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is likely that Australia is one of its targets, argues health economist Professor Gavin Mooney. > He writes: > > ?Cuba, with a per capita national income of a quarter of that of Australia, > has ?*more than 51,000 Cuban doctors*and health care professionals working around the world today, primarily in > developing nations?. > > I would therefore doubt that the World Health Organization Executive Board > * *had Cuba in mind when last week it expressed concerns about the flow of > doctors and other health care workers from poor to rich countries and > proposed a revised (and tougher) draft code of practice on health care > worker migration to submit to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, in May > 2010. > > The WHO Board *recommended*that: ?countries should abstain from active international recruitment of > health personnel unless equitable bilateral, regional, or multilateral > agreement(s) exist to support such recruitment activities.? > > It added that ?voluntary technical and financial mechanisms to strengthen > the development of health systems in developing countries and countries with > economies in transition are proposed?. > > But I?ll bet one of the targets of this policy is Australia ? or at least > the Australian Medical Association. > > Late last year the WA AMA website carried *an announcement* > of a ?spotter > fee? of $3000 for any doctor who succeeded in attracting an overseas doctor > to Australia. There Professor Gary Geelhoed, the President of the WA AMA, > was quoted as saying that ?if anyone knew of an overseas doctor with the > necessary qualifications who was interested in coming to Australia, they > only had to contact the doctor and email his or her details to the AMA (WA). > The association would do the rest.? > > Now that would be a pretty weird idea if the overseas doctor were coming > from the UK or Canada but if it were Ghana or South Africa it borders on the > disgusting. > > Having spent many months in South Africa in recent years and seen the > enormous health problems that exist there and the lack of trained staff to > deal with these problems, how low can the AMA fall in seeking to bribe > Australian doctors to deplete the numbers of already over worked doctors in > such low and middle income countries? > > The idea of a ?spotter?s fee? sucks but, as an absolute minimum, can we be > assured by the WA AMA President that in future no such fee will be paid if > the doctor is from a developing country? > > OK, in Australia we maybe cannot reverse the current trend of importing > doctors and ?do a Cuba? by instead exporting thousands of doctors to low and > middle income countries. > > But, then, damn it, why not?? > > *? 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Individual concern (let alone compassion?) is just clearly less powerful than organized solidarity. (Tikkun) Or, to use an old adage, 'divided we beg, united we demand'..... You can find the full text of this reader by clicking on: http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/ Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan at phmovement.org *Postscript:* I am the first to recognize that the Human Rights Readers are often repetitive. But not so in a mechanical way! Repetition in the Readers is rather through emphasizing the same point from different angles and perspectives. It is my experience that this is the way for HR concepts to ?sink-in? so that you, the reader, begin *using these concepts* in your interaction with others. That, I see, is the ultimate goal in action-oriented HR learning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is likely that Australia is one of its targets, argues health economist Professor Gavin Mooney. > He writes: > > ?Cuba, with a per capita national income of a quarter of that of Australia, > has ?*more than 51,000 Cuban doctors*and health care professionals working around the world today, primarily in > developing nations?. > > I would therefore doubt that the World Health Organization Executive Board > * *had Cuba in mind when last week it expressed concerns about the flow of > doctors and other health care workers from poor to rich countries and > proposed a revised (and tougher) draft code of practice on health care > worker migration to submit to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, in May > 2010. > > The WHO Board *recommended*that: ?countries should abstain from active international recruitment of > health personnel unless equitable bilateral, regional, or multilateral > agreement(s) exist to support such recruitment activities.? > > It added that ?voluntary technical and financial mechanisms to strengthen > the development of health systems in developing countries and countries with > economies in transition are proposed?. > > But I?ll bet one of the targets of this policy is Australia ? or at least > the Australian Medical Association. > > Late last year the WA AMA website carried *an announcement* > of a ?spotter > fee? of $3000 for any doctor who succeeded in attracting an overseas doctor > to Australia. There Professor Gary Geelhoed, the President of the WA AMA, > was quoted as saying that ?if anyone knew of an overseas doctor with the > necessary qualifications who was interested in coming to Australia, they > only had to contact the doctor and email his or her details to the AMA (WA). > The association would do the rest.? > > Now that would be a pretty weird idea if the overseas doctor were coming > from the UK or Canada but if it were Ghana or South Africa it borders on the > disgusting. > > Having spent many months in South Africa in recent years and seen the > enormous health problems that exist there and the lack of trained staff to > deal with these problems, how low can the AMA fall in seeking to bribe > Australian doctors to deplete the numbers of already over worked doctors in > such low and middle income countries? > > The idea of a ?spotter?s fee? sucks but, as an absolute minimum, can we be > assured by the WA AMA President that in future no such fee will be paid if > the doctor is from a developing country? > > OK, in Australia we maybe cannot reverse the current trend of importing > doctors and ?do a Cuba? by instead exporting thousands of doctors to low and > middle income countries. > > But, then, damn it, why not?? > > *? 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URL: From cschuftan at phmovement.org Sat Jan 30 22:03:55 2010 From: cschuftan at phmovement.org (Claudio Schuftan) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:03:55 +0700 Subject: PHM-Exch> =?windows-1252?q?Food_for_a_like-minded-activists=92_th?= =?windows-1252?q?ought?= Message-ID: Human Rights Reader 232 *ACTIONS AND ACTIVISM IN FOSTERING GENUINE GRASSROOTS PARTICIPATION IN HEALTH AND NUTRITION.* Effective action requires not just an enthusiasm, but calls for a close rapport with the disgruntled so as to get them organized. (A. Robbins) 1. You may often have asked yourself as to whether your individual contribution in the field of health and/or nutrition makes or is making any difference. This, of course, depends. Alone, each of us is indeed helpless to change very much. Standing alone to-right-the-world?s-wrongs is a false ideal. We have thus plenty to learn from the lessons of mutuality or even of militancy. Individual concern (let alone compassion?) is just clearly less powerful than organized solidarity. (Tikkun) Or, to use an old adage, 'divided we beg, united we demand'..... You can find the full text of this reader by clicking on: http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/ Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan at phmovement.org *Postscript:* I am the first to recognize that the Human Rights Readers are often repetitive. But not so in a mechanical way! Repetition in the Readers is rather through emphasizing the same point from different angles and perspectives. It is my experience that this is the way for HR concepts to ?sink-in? so that you, the reader, begin *using these concepts* in your interaction with others. That, I see, is the ultimate goal in action-oriented HR learning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is likely that Australia is one of its targets, argues health economist Professor Gavin Mooney. > He writes: > > ?Cuba, with a per capita national income of a quarter of that of Australia, > has ?*more than 51,000 Cuban doctors*and health care professionals working around the world today, primarily in > developing nations?. > > I would therefore doubt that the World Health Organization Executive Board > * *had Cuba in mind when last week it expressed concerns about the flow of > doctors and other health care workers from poor to rich countries and > proposed a revised (and tougher) draft code of practice on health care > worker migration to submit to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, in May > 2010. > > The WHO Board *recommended*that: ?countries should abstain from active international recruitment of > health personnel unless equitable bilateral, regional, or multilateral > agreement(s) exist to support such recruitment activities.? > > It added that ?voluntary technical and financial mechanisms to strengthen > the development of health systems in developing countries and countries with > economies in transition are proposed?. > > But I?ll bet one of the targets of this policy is Australia ? or at least > the Australian Medical Association. > > Late last year the WA AMA website carried *an announcement* > of a ?spotter > fee? of $3000 for any doctor who succeeded in attracting an overseas doctor > to Australia. There Professor Gary Geelhoed, the President of the WA AMA, > was quoted as saying that ?if anyone knew of an overseas doctor with the > necessary qualifications who was interested in coming to Australia, they > only had to contact the doctor and email his or her details to the AMA (WA). > The association would do the rest.? > > Now that would be a pretty weird idea if the overseas doctor were coming > from the UK or Canada but if it were Ghana or South Africa it borders on the > disgusting. > > Having spent many months in South Africa in recent years and seen the > enormous health problems that exist there and the lack of trained staff to > deal with these problems, how low can the AMA fall in seeking to bribe > Australian doctors to deplete the numbers of already over worked doctors in > such low and middle income countries? > > The idea of a ?spotter?s fee? sucks but, as an absolute minimum, can we be > assured by the WA AMA President that in future no such fee will be paid if > the doctor is from a developing country? > > OK, in Australia we maybe cannot reverse the current trend of importing > doctors and ?do a Cuba? by instead exporting thousands of doctors to low and > middle income countries. > > But, then, damn it, why not?? > > *? 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Individual concern (let alone compassion?) is just clearly less powerful than organized solidarity. (Tikkun) Or, to use an old adage, 'divided we beg, united we demand'..... You can find the full text of this reader by clicking on: http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/ Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan at phmovement.org *Postscript:* I am the first to recognize that the Human Rights Readers are often repetitive. But not so in a mechanical way! Repetition in the Readers is rather through emphasizing the same point from different angles and perspectives. It is my experience that this is the way for HR concepts to ?sink-in? so that you, the reader, begin *using these concepts* in your interaction with others. That, I see, is the ultimate goal in action-oriented HR learning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is likely that Australia is one of its targets, argues health economist Professor Gavin Mooney. > He writes: > > ?Cuba, with a per capita national income of a quarter of that of Australia, > has ?*more than 51,000 Cuban doctors*and health care professionals working around the world today, primarily in > developing nations?. > > I would therefore doubt that the World Health Organization Executive Board > * *had Cuba in mind when last week it expressed concerns about the flow of > doctors and other health care workers from poor to rich countries and > proposed a revised (and tougher) draft code of practice on health care > worker migration to submit to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, in May > 2010. > > The WHO Board *recommended*that: ?countries should abstain from active international recruitment of > health personnel unless equitable bilateral, regional, or multilateral > agreement(s) exist to support such recruitment activities.? > > It added that ?voluntary technical and financial mechanisms to strengthen > the development of health systems in developing countries and countries with > economies in transition are proposed?. > > But I?ll bet one of the targets of this policy is Australia ? or at least > the Australian Medical Association. > > Late last year the WA AMA website carried *an announcement* > of a ?spotter > fee? of $3000 for any doctor who succeeded in attracting an overseas doctor > to Australia. There Professor Gary Geelhoed, the President of the WA AMA, > was quoted as saying that ?if anyone knew of an overseas doctor with the > necessary qualifications who was interested in coming to Australia, they > only had to contact the doctor and email his or her details to the AMA (WA). > The association would do the rest.? > > Now that would be a pretty weird idea if the overseas doctor were coming > from the UK or Canada but if it were Ghana or South Africa it borders on the > disgusting. > > Having spent many months in South Africa in recent years and seen the > enormous health problems that exist there and the lack of trained staff to > deal with these problems, how low can the AMA fall in seeking to bribe > Australian doctors to deplete the numbers of already over worked doctors in > such low and middle income countries? > > The idea of a ?spotter?s fee? sucks but, as an absolute minimum, can we be > assured by the WA AMA President that in future no such fee will be paid if > the doctor is from a developing country? > > OK, in Australia we maybe cannot reverse the current trend of importing > doctors and ?do a Cuba? by instead exporting thousands of doctors to low and > middle income countries. > > But, then, damn it, why not?? > > *? 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Individual concern (let alone compassion?) is just clearly less powerful than organized solidarity. (Tikkun) Or, to use an old adage, 'divided we beg, united we demand'..... You can find the full text of this reader by clicking on: http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/ Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan at phmovement.org *Postscript:* I am the first to recognize that the Human Rights Readers are often repetitive. But not so in a mechanical way! Repetition in the Readers is rather through emphasizing the same point from different angles and perspectives. It is my experience that this is the way for HR concepts to ?sink-in? so that you, the reader, begin *using these concepts* in your interaction with others. That, I see, is the ultimate goal in action-oriented HR learning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is likely that Australia is one of its targets, argues health economist Professor Gavin Mooney. > He writes: > > ?Cuba, with a per capita national income of a quarter of that of Australia, > has ?*more than 51,000 Cuban doctors*and health care professionals working around the world today, primarily in > developing nations?. > > I would therefore doubt that the World Health Organization Executive Board > * *had Cuba in mind when last week it expressed concerns about the flow of > doctors and other health care workers from poor to rich countries and > proposed a revised (and tougher) draft code of practice on health care > worker migration to submit to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, in May > 2010. > > The WHO Board *recommended*that: ?countries should abstain from active international recruitment of > health personnel unless equitable bilateral, regional, or multilateral > agreement(s) exist to support such recruitment activities.? > > It added that ?voluntary technical and financial mechanisms to strengthen > the development of health systems in developing countries and countries with > economies in transition are proposed?. > > But I?ll bet one of the targets of this policy is Australia ? or at least > the Australian Medical Association. > > Late last year the WA AMA website carried *an announcement* > of a ?spotter > fee? of $3000 for any doctor who succeeded in attracting an overseas doctor > to Australia. There Professor Gary Geelhoed, the President of the WA AMA, > was quoted as saying that ?if anyone knew of an overseas doctor with the > necessary qualifications who was interested in coming to Australia, they > only had to contact the doctor and email his or her details to the AMA (WA). > The association would do the rest.? > > Now that would be a pretty weird idea if the overseas doctor were coming > from the UK or Canada but if it were Ghana or South Africa it borders on the > disgusting. > > Having spent many months in South Africa in recent years and seen the > enormous health problems that exist there and the lack of trained staff to > deal with these problems, how low can the AMA fall in seeking to bribe > Australian doctors to deplete the numbers of already over worked doctors in > such low and middle income countries? > > The idea of a ?spotter?s fee? sucks but, as an absolute minimum, can we be > assured by the WA AMA President that in future no such fee will be paid if > the doctor is from a developing country? > > OK, in Australia we maybe cannot reverse the current trend of importing > doctors and ?do a Cuba? by instead exporting thousands of doctors to low and > middle income countries. > > But, then, damn it, why not?? > > *? 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Individual concern (let alone compassion?) is just clearly less powerful than organized solidarity. (Tikkun) Or, to use an old adage, 'divided we beg, united we demand'..... You can find the full text of this reader by clicking on: http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/ Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan at phmovement.org *Postscript:* I am the first to recognize that the Human Rights Readers are often repetitive. But not so in a mechanical way! Repetition in the Readers is rather through emphasizing the same point from different angles and perspectives. It is my experience that this is the way for HR concepts to ?sink-in? so that you, the reader, begin *using these concepts* in your interaction with others. That, I see, is the ultimate goal in action-oriented HR learning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is likely that Australia is one of its targets, argues health economist Professor Gavin Mooney. > He writes: > > ?Cuba, with a per capita national income of a quarter of that of Australia, > has ?*more than 51,000 Cuban doctors*and health care professionals working around the world today, primarily in > developing nations?. > > I would therefore doubt that the World Health Organization Executive Board > * *had Cuba in mind when last week it expressed concerns about the flow of > doctors and other health care workers from poor to rich countries and > proposed a revised (and tougher) draft code of practice on health care > worker migration to submit to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, in May > 2010. > > The WHO Board *recommended*that: ?countries should abstain from active international recruitment of > health personnel unless equitable bilateral, regional, or multilateral > agreement(s) exist to support such recruitment activities.? > > It added that ?voluntary technical and financial mechanisms to strengthen > the development of health systems in developing countries and countries with > economies in transition are proposed?. > > But I?ll bet one of the targets of this policy is Australia ? or at least > the Australian Medical Association. > > Late last year the WA AMA website carried *an announcement* > of a ?spotter > fee? of $3000 for any doctor who succeeded in attracting an overseas doctor > to Australia. There Professor Gary Geelhoed, the President of the WA AMA, > was quoted as saying that ?if anyone knew of an overseas doctor with the > necessary qualifications who was interested in coming to Australia, they > only had to contact the doctor and email his or her details to the AMA (WA). > The association would do the rest.? > > Now that would be a pretty weird idea if the overseas doctor were coming > from the UK or Canada but if it were Ghana or South Africa it borders on the > disgusting. > > Having spent many months in South Africa in recent years and seen the > enormous health problems that exist there and the lack of trained staff to > deal with these problems, how low can the AMA fall in seeking to bribe > Australian doctors to deplete the numbers of already over worked doctors in > such low and middle income countries? > > The idea of a ?spotter?s fee? sucks but, as an absolute minimum, can we be > assured by the WA AMA President that in future no such fee will be paid if > the doctor is from a developing country? > > OK, in Australia we maybe cannot reverse the current trend of importing > doctors and ?do a Cuba? by instead exporting thousands of doctors to low and > middle income countries. > > But, then, damn it, why not?? > > *? 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Individual concern (let alone compassion?) is just clearly less powerful than organized solidarity. (Tikkun) Or, to use an old adage, 'divided we beg, united we demand'..... You can find the full text of this reader by clicking on: http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/ Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan at phmovement.org *Postscript:* I am the first to recognize that the Human Rights Readers are often repetitive. But not so in a mechanical way! Repetition in the Readers is rather through emphasizing the same point from different angles and perspectives. It is my experience that this is the way for HR concepts to ?sink-in? so that you, the reader, begin *using these concepts* in your interaction with others. That, I see, is the ultimate goal in action-oriented HR learning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is likely that Australia is one of its targets, argues health economist Professor Gavin Mooney. > He writes: > > ?Cuba, with a per capita national income of a quarter of that of Australia, > has ?*more than 51,000 Cuban doctors*and health care professionals working around the world today, primarily in > developing nations?. > > I would therefore doubt that the World Health Organization Executive Board > * *had Cuba in mind when last week it expressed concerns about the flow of > doctors and other health care workers from poor to rich countries and > proposed a revised (and tougher) draft code of practice on health care > worker migration to submit to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, in May > 2010. > > The WHO Board *recommended*that: ?countries should abstain from active international recruitment of > health personnel unless equitable bilateral, regional, or multilateral > agreement(s) exist to support such recruitment activities.? > > It added that ?voluntary technical and financial mechanisms to strengthen > the development of health systems in developing countries and countries with > economies in transition are proposed?. > > But I?ll bet one of the targets of this policy is Australia ? or at least > the Australian Medical Association. > > Late last year the WA AMA website carried *an announcement* > of a ?spotter > fee? of $3000 for any doctor who succeeded in attracting an overseas doctor > to Australia. There Professor Gary Geelhoed, the President of the WA AMA, > was quoted as saying that ?if anyone knew of an overseas doctor with the > necessary qualifications who was interested in coming to Australia, they > only had to contact the doctor and email his or her details to the AMA (WA). > The association would do the rest.? > > Now that would be a pretty weird idea if the overseas doctor were coming > from the UK or Canada but if it were Ghana or South Africa it borders on the > disgusting. > > Having spent many months in South Africa in recent years and seen the > enormous health problems that exist there and the lack of trained staff to > deal with these problems, how low can the AMA fall in seeking to bribe > Australian doctors to deplete the numbers of already over worked doctors in > such low and middle income countries? > > The idea of a ?spotter?s fee? sucks but, as an absolute minimum, can we be > assured by the WA AMA President that in future no such fee will be paid if > the doctor is from a developing country? > > OK, in Australia we maybe cannot reverse the current trend of importing > doctors and ?do a Cuba? by instead exporting thousands of doctors to low and > middle income countries. > > But, then, damn it, why not?? > > *? 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