<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Anneleen De Keukelaere</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anneleen@phmovement.org">anneleen@phmovement.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:#1f497d">--</span><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" lang="EN-ZA"><div class="m_5189246322423307096WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Dear PHM friends, <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">This email as a reminder that the deadline for submitting online applications for IPHU Savar is 14 September 2018!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">IPHU will take place from 6 to 13 November followed by PHA4! <a href="https://iphu.org/en/announcement/iphu-savar2018" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> to apply and for more information<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1f497d">It would be great to disseminate the call for applications within your region and organisation and pro-actively encourage young health activists with an interest in the themes of Access to Medicines or Gender Justice to apply! This is a great opportunity to bring young health activists closer to PHM. This time they will also be part of PHA4!<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">The course to be held in Savar will commence as a single course, then split into two parallel streams of specialist study, dealing with medicines policy, and gender and health respectively, and then come together again for the final day. This plan is a notional framework. It is currently under development. Watch this space!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1f497d">The common curriculum</span></b><span style="color:#1f497d"> will include:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="m_5189246322423307096MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d"><span>•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                     </span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">the struggle for health and organized health activism: challenges, strategy and practice, achievements and new directions;<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_5189246322423307096MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d"><span>•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                     </span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">social determinants of health: poverty, oppression and hierarchy; alienation and exclusion; racism, sexism and materialism;<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_5189246322423307096MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d"><span>•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                     </span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">comprehensive primary health care: achievements, challenges, lessons and new directions; health system strengthening; the politics of health policy; and<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_5189246322423307096MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d"><span>•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                     </span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">the political economy of health: imperialism and globalisation, the international financial institutions and the UN system; local issues and global pressures.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1f497d">The curriculum for the access to medicines stream</span></b><span style="color:#1f497d"> will focus on creating the conditions for the full deployment of the flexibilities provided for in the TRIPS Agreement (compulsory licensing, parallel importation, patentability criteria, the LDC waiver and the constraints and opportunities associated with existing national laws). In support of this focus topics will include:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="m_5189246322423307096MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d"><span>•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                     </span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">TRIPS plus provisions,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_5189246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