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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Andreas Wulf</b> <span dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:wulf@medico.de">wulf@medico.de</a></span><br>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><span><font face="Arial">Please find the text of the statement of the Public Eye on Berlin regarding the World Health Summit, we will have our own events (a public action, a press conference and a 4 hours open meeting) this friday, 16. October, with the support of the CHC/CPHE and the Basic Need India friends in Bangalore, who will participate for a short interview session through skype in our meeting in the afternoon. </font></span></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><span><font face="Arial">We will keep you informed about the outcomes and reactions of the Public Eye on Berlin</font></span></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><span><font face="Arial">best regards</font></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial">Statement concerning the „World Health Summit“ in Berlin</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">Under the patronage of Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy the Charité will host the “World Health Summit” (WHS) in Berlin from 15<sup>th</sup> until 18<sup> th</sup> of October 2009. The organizers are even planning to institutionalize this event and want physicians, scientists, politicians, and representatives of the private health care management industry to meet annually in such a forum. Health care management shall be connected closer to the world market. Following the model of the G8 – the group of leading industrialized countries – the establishment of a M8 is planned, an alliance of worldwide leading medical research institutions.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">However, the program of the summit is not designed to discuss questions concerning public health services but rather by considerations to what extend research and private health care management are able to contribute to the improvement of individual care. Therewith the public good “health” is in danger to be turned into a commercialized product which would be guided only by technical and economic criteria. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">This health summit is not qualified to address worldwide health issues. Due to it’s organizational focus and content the summit will more likely contribute to the problems it claims to solve. </font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">The majority of the world population is not able to benefit from the remarkable medical progress of the last decades. Still millions of people are dying from diseases which could be easily cured. To often the human right to health turns out to exist only on paper. 2 billion people do not have access to clean water; 1 billion people are suffering from hunger and malnutrition; a third of the world population cannot afford essential medication.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%">At the same time concerns are growing about new global epidemics or the health implications of climate change, which will have most effect on those that least contributed to it’s emergence.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">Poor people are most likely to suffer from well known diseases of poverty like Tuberculosis, Malaria, and HIV/AIDS, which are on the rise again.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">A World Health Summit, which would be qualified to bear this name, should</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><span><font face="Arial">-</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">emphasise the pursuit of social justice and democratic participation as basic requirements for health;</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><span><font face="Arial">-</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">guarantee the right to access to health services for all – irrespective of people’s capacities to pay for it;</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><span><font face="Arial">-</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">encourage participation of people and communities at the development of solutions whose health situation is actually the focus;</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><span><font face="Arial">-</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">turn it’s attention to those who got into social and financial difficulties due to the disease of themselves, their partners, children or parents;</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><span><font face="Arial">-</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">support health as a public good by promoting solidarity-based financing-mechanisms;</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><span><font face="Arial">-</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">strengthen the existing and legitimized structures of the World Health Organization instead of creating a new body;</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><span><font face="Arial">-</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">correct the current way of privatisation of health</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">“Medicine is a social science” declared Rudolf Virchow, Charité´s famous son, almost 150 years ago. But the upcoming summit deeply disregards the principles of such a social science. <span> </span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">The desire to act is very much understandable in the face of the current global health problems. Nevertheless, the participants of the WHS shall not succumb to the erroneous belief assuming that health could be prescribed top-down and be realised in a purely technical manner.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">Social changes, the improvement of the situation of health, and functioning social services which are equally accessible to all demand democratic participation.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">Sustainable improvements can only be achieved by granting the basic principles of social justice and democratic participation.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><font face="Arial">Having said this we will keep watching the „World Health Summit“: Based on cooperation between health activists and initiatives from all over the world which has been growing for many years.</font></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Action for Global Health Deutschland</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">action medeor</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Aktionsbündnis gegen AIDS</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">attac AG Soziale Sicherung</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Büro für medizinische Flüchtlingshilfe Berlin</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Büro für medizinische Flüchtlingshilfe Hamburg</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">BUKO Pharmakampagne</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Deutsches Institut für Ärztliche Mission (Difäm)</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW)</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (EED)</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Globalisation and Health Initiative (GandHI)</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">IPPNW Deutschland – Internationale Ärzte für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges, Ärzte in sozialer Verantwortung</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">medico international</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">MEZIS - Mein Essen zahl ich selbst / Initiative unbestechlicher Ärztinnen und Ärzte </font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Missionsärztliches Institut Würzburg, Katholische Fachstelle für Internationale Gesundheit</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">OXFAM Deutschland</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Refugio Villingen-Schwenningen</font></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Verein demokratischer Pharmazeutinnen und Pharmazeuten (VDPP)</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (ver.di) – Bundesvorstand, Bereich Gesundheitspolitik</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">World Vision Deutschland </font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Annelie Buntenbach, Mitglied des Geschäftsführenden Bundesvorstands des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB)</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Hans-Jürgen Urban, Geschäftsführendes Vorstandsmitglied der Industriegewerkschaft Metall (IGM)</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Kordula Schulz-Asche, Mitglied des Hessischen Landtags, Landesvorsitzende Bündnis 90/Die Grünen in Hessen</font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Angela Dorn, Mitglied des Hessischen Landtags, Landesvorsitzende der Grünen Jugend Hessen (GJH)</font></span></li>
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