<br><br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a><br> <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#993300" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Buenos Aires</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#993300" size="2">
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> 30-15: From Alma-Ata to the Millennium Declaration<br>International Conference on Health for Development: Rights, Facts and Realities</span></font></b></strong>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">August 13-17, 2007 - Buenos Aires, Argentina</span></font>
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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">Website: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.buenosaires30-15.gov.ar/home-ing.html" target="_blank">
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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">Close to the 30th anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration, under which the WHO Member States adopted the Primary Health Care Strategy, the Ministry of Health of the Argentina Republic fosters an international meeting with a view to building up new consensus and promoting global and regional alliances to strengthen health systems, aimed at contributing to the enhancement of health policies for the attainment of the Millennium Development Objectives in 2015.
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20 countries of National Policies</span></font></b></strong> on Primary Health Care focused on the following <strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">issues</span></font></b></strong>
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</span></font></span></span></font><span dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Health and gender policy </span></font></span></p>
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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"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.buenosaires30-15.gov.ar/documentos/BsAs3015ing.PDF" target="_blank">
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Document: </span></font></b></strong><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.buenosaires30-15.gov.ar/documentos/ATT00251.pdf" target="_blank">
<font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">EXECUTE SUMMARY. <span lang="EN-US">Preliminary document for discusión. "Towards Integral Healthcare for all"</span>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr Chan: high-quality health care must reach the poor</span></font></b>
</span><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>16 August 2007 -- In her first major address on primary health care, WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan stressed that this is the most promising way to meet the Millennium Development Goals. "If we want better health to work as a poverty reduction strategy, we must reach the poor. And we must do so with appropriate, high-quality care," she told a primary health care conference in Argentina.
<br></span></font><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Speech: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2007/20070816_argentina/en/index.html" target="_blank">
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.paho.org/english/dd/pin/almaata25.htm" target="_blank">
<font color="#333399"><span style="COLOR: #333399">PAHO Web Page for the 25th Anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">PAHO Press release: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/pr070816.htm" target="_blank">
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Country Experiences on Primary Health care: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.buenosaires30-15.gov.ar/experiencias-ing.html" target="_blank">
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