<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">PHM's GLOBAL RIGHT TO HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE CAMPAIGN:</font></font></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">PROGRESS REPORT JANUARY 2009.</font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Country updates:</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We have significantly advanced in the campaign's expansion since our last update in May.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We now have active, funded campaigns in Guatemala, Uruguay, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Togo and Cameroun. These countries have already sent in their campaign reports (except DRC doing it shortly). Moreover, India, Ecuador, Zimbabwe and South Africa are involved in the campaign without receiving our funding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We are in advanced negotiations to launch the campaign in Senegal and Djibouti. New PHM circles have been formed in the last three months in Mali, Kenya, Morocco and Uganda and they will be submitting campaign proposals shortly. We have further contacts manifesting an interest in the campaign in Brazil, Argentina and the Philippines<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We have failed to get the campaign going in Asia and the Middle East; more efforts will be concentrated there now.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The countries that have almost completed the assessment are now eligible for a small additional funding to hold a national workshop in which to present the results to the government, UN agencies, international and national NGOs and the media.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Any country not mentioned here is welcome to inquire with us how they can get a PHM circle going so as to launch the campaign.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Funding: </font></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The Campaign has benefited from the generous support of SC/UK, Oxfam/Novib, Brot fuer die Welt/Diakonie and Misereor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We are now pursuing other funding avenues for which it is yet too early to report on.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">2009-2010 plan for the campaign:</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We are giving the final touches to this plan which should be available in the next 30 days. If interested, you can ask for a copy of the same to be sent to you.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Coordinating team:</font></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Claudio Schuftan is now taking the main coordinating role helped by Laura Turiano and Abhay Shukla.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Sylvie Niombo in Bazzaville is our regional coordinator for francophone Africa. Kamayani Bali Mahabal is helping us in South Asia. Our 2009-10 plan looks at hiring a person to help Claudio on the growing workload of the campaign; we have been negotiating this with the Global Secretariat since last July. Some of our IPHU (the PHM University) graduates who have an interest can contact us.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Communications:</font></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We have been in personal contact with all the countries mentioned above. We have used pha-exchange or campaign updates and the PHM website </font><a href="http://www.phmovement.org/"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#0000ff" size="3">www.phmovement.org</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>has a page for the campaign with the RTH assessment guide already in four languages. We are aiming at having each country with an active campaign to have a page in the campaign site. Tometissi Pacome of the Benin PHM circle has offered to help with this.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Claudio is available to skype with anybody on campaign related issues at either clauviet or aviva108.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Training:</font></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We are proposing that national PHM circle members already involved in the campaign get preference in the selection of candidates for future IPHU sessions. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Publications and meeting presentations on the campaign from the past year:</font></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">This past year, articles about or mentioning the Campaign have appeared in several publications among other including: </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><i>Health and Human Rights: An International Journal</i>, Vol. 10, No 1<br></font></font><a href="http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#0000ff" size="3">http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr</font></a><br>
<br><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><i>Accountability and the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health</i>, by Dr. Helen Potts<br></font></font><a href="http://www2.essex.ac.uk/human_rights_centre/rth/docs/HRC_Accountability_Mar08.pdf" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#0000ff" size="3">http://www2.essex.ac.uk/human_rights_centre/rth/docs/HRC_Accountability_Mar08.pdf</font></a><br>
<br><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Global Health Watch 2, </font><a href="http://www.ghwatch.org/" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#0000ff" size="3">www.ghwatch.org</font></a><br><br><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The Campaign Assessment Guide was cited in <i>The Lancet </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">of<i> </i></span>13 Dec. 2008, <i>"</i>Health systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries," by Gunilla Backman,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Paul Hunt, et al.<br>
<br>And in 2009 a chapter called "The Right to Health: A People's Health Movement Perspective and Case Study" is appearing in the Swiss Human Rights Book: <i>Realizing the Right to Health</i>, </font><u><span style="COLOR: blue"><a href="http://www.ruefferundrub.ch/" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#0000ff" size="3">http://www.ruefferundrub.ch</font></a><br>
<br></span></u><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Presentations on the Campaign were made at many meetings/conventions around the world the year just ended; among them: </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Claudio Schuftan, Laura Turiano, Abhay Shuka</font></p>