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align=center><STRONG>Dear friends,</STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><STRONG>In preparation of the People's Health Assembly II in
Cuenca, Ecuador, July, 2005, in the coming days, I will post a series of eight
very short pieces that will make all of us think about the type of issues we
should not miss reviewing in preparing the assembly and during the
assembly itself. The pieces are all taken from an article Dr Ravi Narayan
and I are publishing shortly as a chapter of a book on perspectives on
global development. </STRONG></P>
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align=center><STRONG>Do keep these pieces and refer to them often as we get
closer to the assembly. </STRONG></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><STRONG>Comtributions of every one of you on these issues will be
welcome in pha-exchange for all of us to share and to enrich the preparatory
process.</STRONG></P>
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align=center><STRONG>Claudio</STRONG></P>
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align=center><STRONG></STRONG> </P>
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align=center><STRONG>The People’s Health Movement: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns
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align=center><STRONG>A People’s Campaign for HEALTH FOR ALL –
NOW!<o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><STRONG>ABSTRACT<o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">The
People’s Health Assembly later renamed the People’s Health Movement has been a
worldwide civil society effort to counter the ill-effects of Globalization on
Health and Health Care. The Assembly, through an interactive dialogue came up
with the People’s Charter for Health as a tool for advocacy and a call for more
needed radical action. Consisting of a wide range of action initiatives, the
People’s Charter --now translated into over forty languages-- is helping to
promote a host of activities: a movement that promotes geographical circles of
health professionals and activists, organizing street level rallies, policy
debates and dialogue, public education, advocacy with WHO and other
international health players, and health campaigns --all focused on the Health
for All – Now goal.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman">Background<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></STRONG></U></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">In 1978, in Alma – Ata, the universal slogan <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Health for All by the year 2000</I></B> was
coined<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">.</I></B> At the same time, the famous <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Alma
Ata Declaration</I></B><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> </I>was
overwhelmingly approved<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">,</I> putting
people and communities at the center of health planning and health care
strategies, as well as emphasizing the role of community participation,
appropriate technology and inter-sectoral coordination.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Declaration was endorsed by most of
the governments of the world and symbolized a significant paradigm shift in the
global understanding of Health and Health Care. (WHO – UNICEF,
1978).<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Twenty five years later, <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">-after much policy rhetoric,
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">-some concerted but mostly ad-hoc action,
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">-quite a bit of misplaced euphoria,
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">-distortions brought about by the growing role of the
market economy as it has affected health care, and <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">-a fair dose of governmental and international health
agencies’ amnesia, <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">this Declaration remains unfulfilled and mostly
forgotten, as the world comes to terms with the new economic forces of
globalization, liberalization and privatization which have made ‘Health for All’
a receding dream.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">The
People’s Health Assembly in Savar, Bangladesh, in December 2000, and the
People’s Health Movement that evolved from it are both a civil society effort to
counter this global <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">laissez faire</I> and
to challenge health policy makers around the world with a <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Peoples Health Campaign for Health for
All-Now!</I></B></SPAN></DIV>
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be cotinued)</EM></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>