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From: <a href="mailto:ram@jhu.edu">ram@jhu.edu</a><br>
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On 30 October 2013, PHM delegations from seven countries in East and Horn of Africa - Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda - together issued the Kampala Call to Action (see attached). The Kampala Call re-emphasizes the PHM ideals and commitments outlined in the People’s Charter for Health, the Cape Town Call to Action endorsed at the third People’s Health Assembly (PHA3) and the East and Southern Africa PHM statement. It further links the PHM country circle action plans to the new PHM East Africa group, and commits to monitoring and reporting on our progress in East Africa.<br>
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The signing ceremony for the Kampala Call to Action was covered by the media and broadcast on the Uganda evening news.<br>
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Actions that are shared across PHM circles in East Africa include:<br>
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· Health for All - the campaign (through Health in All Policies and other approaches);<br>
· Health rights education and awareness, particularly at the grassroots level;<br>
· Advocacy for health financing, provision of healthcare services, and prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, and other communicable/non-communicable diseases;<br>
· Mass mobilization for people’s health, including work towards the global week of action in 2015 and an International People’s Health University in our region; and<br>
· Networking and coalition building to strengthen PHM country circles.<br>
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At the regional level, PHM country circles committed to developing an African voice for the post-2015 sustainable development goals and to preparing case studies for Global Health Watch 4, WHO Watch and AFRO Watch, and to planning a second IPHU in the region.<br>
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Kampala Call to Action:<br>
<<a href="http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/8137" target="_blank">http://www.phmovement.org/en/<u></u>node/8137</a>><a href="http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/8137" target="_blank">http://www.<u></u>phmovement.org/en/node/8137</a><br>
<a href="http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/8133" target="_blank">http://www.phmovement.org/en/<u></u>node/8133</a><br>
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<<a href="http://www.phmovement.org/en/circles/689/page" target="_blank">http://www.phmovement.org/en/<u></u>circles/689/page</a>><a href="http://www.phmovement.org/en/circles/689/page" target="_blank">http://www.<u></u>phmovement.org/en/circles/689/<u></u>page</a> <br>
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