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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=ruglucia@PAHO.ORG
href="mailto:ruglucia@PAHO.ORG">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Call for papers</FONT></DIV>
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class=titlebig1><B><FONT face=Arial color=#333399 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Forum
11</SPAN></FONT></B></SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#333399 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial color=#993300 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Beijing</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></st1:City></st1:place><STRONG><B><FONT
face=Arial color=#993300 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, 29 October - 2
November 2007</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial color=#993300
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR></SPAN></FONT></B><STRONG><B><FONT
face=Arial color=#333399 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Equitable Access:
Research challenges for health in developing countries
</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></B></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><B><FONT face=Arial color=red size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">31
January deadline: receipt of abstracts </SPAN></FONT></B><FONT color=red><SPAN
style="COLOR: red"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=#333399 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Website: <A
href="http://www.globalforumhealth.org/Site/004__Annual%20meeting/001__Forum%2011/002__Call%20for%20abstracts.php"><FONT
color=#333399><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399">http://www.globalforumhealth.org/Site/004__Annual%20meeting/001__Forum%2011/002__Call%20for%20abstracts.php</SPAN></FONT></A>
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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=#333399 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Global Forum for
Health Research invites you to submit an abstract for Forum 11 in any area of
health research relevant to the overarching theme of Equitable Access: Research
challenges for health in developing countries. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=#333399 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Equitable access,
the overarching theme of the Forum, begins with the recognition that all people
are entitled – by virtue of their inviolable human rights – to have the
opportunity to share in societal resources, to be treated with quality, dignity
and respect, to actively participate in decision-making that affects them and to
be fully included as active participants in
society.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=#333399 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In recognition that
violation of these rights and entitlements is one of the most basic risks to
health and to inequities in health, sessions should examine how research can
help to identify and address barriers to access of all types (including
economic, geographical, institutional, political, sociocultural, technological)
and identify measures that would ensure equitable access for all, especially
groups that have experienced long-standing historical discrimination: women,
disabled peoples, indigenous peoples, poor people, people from low-income
countries, elderly people, children, people of low social class or caste, among
others.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial color=#333399
size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Suggested main
thematic strands</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#333399
size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Improving
understanding of and equitable access to basic preconditions for health through
research (<STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Access to
health</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">)</SPAN></B>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.75in"><FONT face=Arial color=#333399 size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2.
Innovation <BR>3. Research resources: human, institutional,
financial, informational <BR>4. Research aspects of equitable access
to decision-making and governance <BR>5. Communication, includes
research aspects of: the role of communication in equitable access to knowledge
and information and to its management <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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