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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Claudio Schuftan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cschuftan@phmovement.org">cschuftan@phmovement.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">SOME REACTIONS TO WHAT WE HEAR (AND DO NOT HEAR) IN MANY A PUBLIC HEALTH CONFERENCE THESE DAYS.</font></span></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Am I tired of going to such conferences? Sort of.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">It is just that, in them, we hear about so many things that need doing and have so long been overdue (…achieving the health MDGs, strengthening health delivery systems, organizing and empowering beneficiaries to demand changes ….and on-and-on…). One gets the impression that it is in times of crisis that we finally will bring to the fore what really needs doing and has long been overdue… But not even in such circumstance does the needed happen in our meetings of the learned; almost nothing substantial, beyond a passing comment, is heard about taking actions to address the ‘condition of poverty’, about disparity reduction, about addressing the widespread and numerous violations of the human right to health and to nutrition; nothing substantial and really deep-felt is heard about empowering claim holders --or worse: the concept of empowerment is repeatedly hijacked by making it mean giving women greater self-esteem, providing them with health education and nutritional knowledge and skills and/or ‘empowering’ them to better take care of their children. </font></span></p>
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<div><a href="http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/04/10/human-rights/some-reactions-to-what-we-hear-and-do-not-hear-in-many-a-public-health-conference-these-days/" target="_blank">http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/04/10/human-rights/some-reactions-to-what-we-hear-and-do-not-hear-in-many-a-public-health-conference-these-days/</a><br>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: black"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>Claudio</span></font></font></span></div></font></blockquote></div><br>