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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=theo@macdonaldbn17.fsnet.co.uk
href="mailto:theo@macdonaldbn17.fsnet.co.uk">Theodore MacDonald</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>With respect to George Kent's comment on the
sogginess of the MDG's, I say much the same thing in my new book: THE GLOBAL
RIGHT to HEALTH: Dream or Possibility?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The publisher is Radcliffe Medical Publishing,
Oxford.</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>It has just come out, although the
official launch is not until May 2 from Canada House in Trafalgar Square.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the book I point out that the only REAL hope for
global equity in health, and indeed all other human rights, is contained in the
Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and was coming along very well under Dr. Halfdan
Mahler's D-Gship of WHO in the 80's. But from 1990 onward, it became more and
more undermined by neoliberal interests and this decline accelerated after the
formal inauguration of the WTO in 1995. I DO say that hopefully Dr. Margaret
Chan might get back to it. As for the MDGs, I argue that even if they were all
achieved by 2020 (which I show won't happen) that would only conbstitute a
MINIMAL </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>basis for later developing global health
equity.</FONT></DIV>
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