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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks to everybody in this struggle. Iam
not a pessimist but I feel frustrated by the adamancy of the international development
bodies that get these communications ,read through and go the next inbox mail!
We need action in terms of strategies to reverse the trends that suffocate efforts
of total health attainment by all.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Is it not possible for us to stop agitating
for changes but move into action by putting our feet down ,demand for the funds
meant to see our populations healthier and we start the work if the custodians
of this have failed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Iam getting overwhelmed by advocacy upon
advocacy papers, suggestions, opinions etc with no clear answer from the perpetuators
of inequality or a twist by the activists to demand for what belongs to the people
so that they deliver it to them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Forward into action PHM. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I look forward to more action reports than
complaints about what was not done in the coming PHA.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thank you<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><b><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Tumusiime Molly Abala<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><b><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Prevention Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><b><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Plot 577,Block 15,<st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Nsambya Road</st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><b><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>T +256414267733/5110103<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><b><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>F+25641451010<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><b><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>E:mtumusiime@ug.earo.crs.org<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
phm-exchange-bounces@phm.phmovement.org
[mailto:phm-exchange-bounces@phm.phmovement.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Marjorie Mbilinyi<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, May 18, 2009 3:20 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> jmukherjee@pih.org;
tschrecker@sympatico.ca; cschuftan@phmovement.org;
phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: PHM-Exch> PHM press
statement (WHA 2009,May 18): "Declare Global economic downturn a health
emergency!"</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I agree, we need to speak as loudly and clearly as possible.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tanzania</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
government statements on the planned response to the global financial crisis
have emphasised that resource allocations <strong><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>to infrastructure</span></font></b></strong> will not
be reduced -- with the clear implication that resource allocations to social
services will be reduced. In contrast, feminist and health activists and others
are using every opportunity to argue that resources need to be increased to
social services and social protection, while taking direct action to protect as
well as enhance the sustainable livelihoods of women and men in both rural and
urban areas.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Marjorie Mbilinyi</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tanzania</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Gender
Networking Programme (TGNP)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:jmukherjee@pih.org" title="jmukherjee@pih.org">jmukherjee@pih.org</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:tschrecker@sympatico.ca" title="tschrecker@sympatico.ca">tschrecker@sympatico.ca</a>
; <a href="mailto:cschuftan@phmovement.org" title="cschuftan@phmovement.org">cschuftan@phmovement.org</a>
; <a href="mailto:phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org"
title="phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org">phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Monday, May 18,
2009 1:42 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Re: PHM-Exch>
PHM press statement (WHA 2009,May 18): "Declare Global economic downturn a
health emergency!"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>So, let’s move
thousands of people into the streets…we ( a group of PHM , HIV and MHC
activists and others) are going to start working on this…18 months from
now, we want 100,000 people on the mall…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1f497d" face=Cambria><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#1F497D'>Joia S. Mukherjee,
MD, MPH<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1f497d" face=Cambria><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#1F497D'>Medical Director,
Partners In Health<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1f497d" face=Cambria><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#1F497D'>Director, Institute
for Health and Social Justice<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1f497d" face=Cambria><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#1F497D'>Assistant Professor,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Medical</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1f497d" face=Cambria><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#1F497D'>Division of Global
Health Equity<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1f497d" face=Cambria><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#1F497D'>Brigham and Women's
Hospital<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size=3
color="#1f497d" face=Cambria><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;
color:#1F497D'>800 Boylston St</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><font
color="#1f497d" face=Cambria><span style='font-family:Cambria;color:#1F497D'>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1f497d" face=Cambria><span lang=FR
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#1F497D'>Boston, MA 02199<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1f497d" face=Cambria><span lang=FR
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#1F497D'>phone: +1
617-432-3735<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1f497d" face=Cambria><span lang=FR
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#1F497D'>fax: +1 617-432-6045<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#1f497d" face=Cambria><span lang=FR
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://www.pih.org">www.pih.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=FR
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
phm-exchange-bounces@phm.phmovement.org
[mailto:phm-exchange-bounces@phm.phmovement.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Ted Schrecker<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, May 17, 2009 6:32 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Claudio Schuftan';
'pha-exchange'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: PHM-Exch>PHM press
statement (WHA 2009, May 18): "Declare Global economic downturn a health
emergency!"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</div>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Although I could not
agree more strongly with the substance of the communiqué below, might I add a
note of caution about the language of “demands”?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Social movements are
most effective in articulating their objectives as “demands” when
they can bring tens/hundreds of thousands of people into the streets, or can
exercise some analogously strong influence within the more rarefied context of
multilateral fora such as WHA. Can PHM realistically claim to be able to
do this? If not, then I suggest moderating the language, although not of
course the underlying ethical argument.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>In solidarity,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Ted Schrecker<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
phm-exchange-bounces@phm.phmovement.org
[mailto:phm-exchange-bounces@phm.phmovement.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Claudio Schuftan<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> May 17, 2009 1:50 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> pha-exchange<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> PHM-Exch> PHM press
statement (WHA 2009, May 18): “Declare Global economic downturn a health
emergency!”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>From: <<a
href="mailto:unnikru@yahoo.com">unnikru@yahoo.com</a>><br>
and: <a href="mailto:secretariat@phmovement.org">secretariat@phmovement.org</a>,
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>For immediate circulation:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Press Release: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Geneva</st1:place></st1:City> , 18 May, 2009 </span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><font size=4 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>“Declare
Global economic downturn a health emergency!”</span></font></i></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=4 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>“Economic
Recession is a threat to the world’s health”</span></font></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The People’s Health Movement urges the World Health
Organization and member governments to <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>“declare
the economic recession currently gripping the globe as a health
emergency”. </span></b></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Health activists gathered here in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Geneva</st1:place></st1:City> for the World Health Assembly (18-22
May) are expected to lobby the UN health body and governments to declare
global downturn a health emergency. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>People’s Health Movement (PHM) is a global coalition
of grass root health workers, health professionals, human rights, peace and
social activists. </span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>“Recession is hitting the poor
people hard and their health and survival”</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> said a
PHM spokesperson. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>“While it is too early to make a
rigorous assessment, recession’s potential impact on health is much
greater than that of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>‘Swine
flu’</span></i>, through impacts on poverty and social spending”.</span></font></b>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>“The current paradigm of
‘development’ has aggravated poverty and ill-health for the poor,
especially in the global south”,</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> said Prof. David
Sanders, a public health expert from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region> . <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>“The current financial crisis will worsen
this”</span></b>, he said. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>“Donors need to place health needs
of poor people at the centre of their response strategies” </span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>said Dr.
Zafrullah Chowdhury from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:place></st1:country-region>
. Dr. Chowdhury, a leading advocate for affordable health care for poor
people from Bangladesh , urged donors to do a ’reality check’ and
shred what he alleged was their ‘imperial attitude’.</span></font>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>PHM warns that the financial crisis is likely to result in
greater dependence of southern countries on donor assistance. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Previous precedents indicate that the effects of the
global crisis will be quickly felt by the poor, across the globe. Focussing
on a few priority diseases will further amplify the health challenges for the
poor people.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Consider the facts:</span></font></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>50
million workers may lose jobs if the economic crisis worsens, warns the
International Labour Organization. </span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
UN and all its agencies and funds spend about $20 billion each year or
about $3 for each person in the world. In contrast, Global military
expenditure in 2007 was US $ 1339 billion or about US $202 for each
person in the world.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Over 1 billion people across
the globe go hungry every day. One in five people in developing
countries is chronically undernourished </span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Every day, almost 16,000
children die from hunger-related causes - one child every five seconds. </span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
crisis undermines human rights. UN Human Rights Council expressed
“grave concern” that the crises threatens to undermine the
achievement of the internationally agreed development goals including
the Millennium Development Goals.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>“The loss of livelihoods, impending
cutbacks in welfare spending and intensified food crisis for the
world’s poor is going to result in a significant increase in avoidable
deaths around the world”</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> said Dr. Amit Sengupta, a leading
health analyst from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
. In <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
, 80 percent of expenditure on healthcare is through out-of-pocket payments.</span></font>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Loss of jobs or income could leave a vast majority of
these unable to pay for their treatment. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>“It is time to shift gears. The
current situation demonstrates the need for a new world health order and a
new approach to development”,</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> said David Woodward, a
development economist from the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region> . It is essential
that poor people are put at the centre of this new order, he said. Typically
those in poor, developing countries are likely to suffer the most. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>The PHM demands immediate measures</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> by the
international community and individual governments: </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>a)</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>To ensure adequate resources made available to revitalise
public health systems. Pay urgent attention to the needs of the poor rather
than the revival of failed big commercial banks. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>b)</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>To allocate funds for the restoration of jobs and
livelihood opportunities in low income communities. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>c)</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>To strengthen social welfare programs in developing
countries and for homeless and unemployed people in developed countries, and
not to use the economic crisis downturn as an excuse to cut funds of welfare
related programmes.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Bridget Lloyd, Global co-ordinator:
People’s Health Movement.</span></font></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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