PHM-Exch> [PHM News] PHM calls for effective action on the structural determinants of health during WHA67

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: PHM Global Secretariat <globalsecretariat at phmovement.org>


PHM calls for effective action on the structural determinants of health
    While watching the 67th World Health Assembly, PHM jointly with Medicus
Mundi International released a statement. It indicated that the MDGs
framework was based on a charity model that sought to palliate the effects
of an unfair and unsustainable global dispensation, rather than seeking to
change it. The structural problems we face include an unfair trade regime;
an unstable financial regime; a global tax regime which drives tax
competition and facilitates capital flight and tax a. voidance; an IP
regime which prevents urgently needed technology transfer; and an
investment regime which privileges the interests of transnational
corporations. The MDGs did not address any of these structural distortions
and injustices. Read the full
statement<http://www.ghwatch.org/sites/www.ghwatch.org/files/MMI-PHM%20Statement_MDGs.pdf>.
Read the PHM commentary <http://www.ghwatch.org/who-watch/wha67> on the
agenda of the 67th WHA.

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Global Secretariat
People's Health Movement (PHM)
Email: globalsecretariat at phmovement.org
Web: www.phmovement.org
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