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<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"> From: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:secretariat@phmovement.org">secretariat@phmovement.org</a><br> <br> <font face="Arial" size="2"><b><font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></b> <b><font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Global Health Watch 2 is being Launched <u>Today</u> (October 16th, 2008) in London and Quito.</span></font></b></font></div>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"><b><font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Full list of planned launches (<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.phmovement.org/cms/en/node/862" target="_blank">http://www.phmovement.org/cms/en/node/862</a>)</span></font></b></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Alternative world health report calls for radical change</span></font></b></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Global Health Watch 2: launch 16<sup>th</sup> October </span></font></b></p>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Civil society organizations and scientists from around the world are calling </span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">for 'a new development paradigm' to address the toxic combination of climate change, growing poverty and inequality and poor health. </span></font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The new report, </span></font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Global Health Watch 2, says that unfair social and economic policies combined with bad politics are to blame for the poor state of the health of millions of people in the world. The report </span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">makes stinging criticisms of key global actors, including the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Gates Foundation. </span></font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The report calls on governments to stop the Bank from meddling in health politics. ...THIS TEXT WAS POSTED YESTERDAY. </span></font><br>
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