<div 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>crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">15by2015 Quality health care for all </span></font></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Website: <a href="http://www.15by2015.org/index.php/resources/" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.15by2015.org/index.php/resources/</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Primary health care and prevention are the best and most affordable ways to save the most lives and improve overall health.</span></font></i><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy"></span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">With the "1<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">5by2015</span></i>" campaign we ask that donor organizations allocate 15% of their vertical funding towards sustainable comprehensive primary health care that is accessible and affordable in all regions of the world.</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"15 by 2015" is a campaign calling for all major global health donors to allocate 15% of all their grants towards strengthening the primary health care system of the country they are working in. The target date is the same as with the globally known and used eight millennium development goals, 2015.</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy"></span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Why "15by2015"?</span></font></b><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Primary health care cuts across diseases in a systemic way. Investing in improving the quality of primary health care (infrastructure, human resources and equipment) is a broad-based and sustainable investment that should be accessible and affordable for all. For example, if good primary health care were available in the 42 countries accounting for about 90% of child deaths worldwide, 63% of these deaths could be prevented. </span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The most prevalent health care problems in developing countries are respiratory illnesses, diarrhoea and complications of labour and delivery. These can and must be treated within the same primary health care framework that deals with diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS…."</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Contact Information: </span></font></p>
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<p><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Global Health through Education Training and Service (GHETS):</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">David Egilman, MD, MPH</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<span>8 North Main St, Suite 401</span><span> Attleboro MA 02703</span><br><span>Tel: +1 (508) 226-5091 x 11 Fax: +1 (508) 448-8346 <a href="mailto:degilman@ghets.org" target="_blank">degilman@ghets.org</a></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
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<p><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca):</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr Alfred W. T. Loh - College of Medicine Building</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<span>16 College Road #01-02 Singapore 169854 </span><br><span>Tel: +65 6224 2886 Fax: +65 6324 2029 <a href="mailto:ceo@wonca.com.sg" target="_blank">ceo@wonca.com.sg</a></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
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<p><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Network: Towards Unity for Health:</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Pauline Vluggen Executive Director</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<span>P.O. Box</span><span> 616</span><span>, 6200 MD Maastricht - Universiteitssingel 60, Maastricht the Netherlands</span><br><span>Tel: +31 (0)43-3885638 Fax: +31 (0)43-3885639 <a href="mailto:secretariat@network.unimaas.nl" target="_blank">secretariat@network.unimaas.nl</a></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Maaike Flinkenflogel</span></font></span><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, MD Coordinator Primafamed - Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care -Ghent University</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<span>De Pintelaan 185</span><br><span>9000 Gent Belgium</span><br><span>Tel: +32 9 332 6082 <a href="mailto:Maaike.flinkenflogel@ugent.be" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Maaike.flinkenflogel@ugent.be</span></font></a> - <a href="mailto:primafamed@ugent.be" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">primafamed@ugent.be</span></font></a> </span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
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<p><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The European Forum for Primary Care:</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Diederik Aarendonk</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<span>Otterstraat 118 – 124, 3513 CR Utrecht - PO Box 1568, 3500 BN Utrecht The Netherlands</span><br><span>Tel: +31 30 27 29 700 Fax: +31 30 27 29 729 Mob: +31 (0)6 232 09 708 <a href="mailto:d.aarendonk@euprimarycare.org" target="_blank">d.aarendonk@euprimarycare.org</a></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
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<p><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Lanny Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<span>P. O. Box 1761</span><span> Decatur, GA 30031, U.S.A.</span><br><span>(404) 377-3566 <a href="mailto:lannysmith@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lannysmith@yahoo.com</a></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
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<p><span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Wendy Johnson, MD, MPH - Director of New Initiatives</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<span>4534 11th Ave</span><span> NE Seattle, WA 98105</span><br><span>+1 (206) 543-8382 <a href="mailto:wjohns@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">wjohns@u.washington.edu</a></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
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