<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2">In preparation of PHA4, phm-exchange will over the coming weeks feature some of the important documents of the past for our new members to get a better feeling where we have been as a movement. For those of you old-timers, it will be a trip in memory lane.</font><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div>
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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">THE
PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT (PHM): TIME TO TAKE STOCK. (RE-VISIONING<span> </span>THE GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS: THE PHM’s POSITION
IN 2005).<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">1. The People’s Charter for Health (PCH), <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">t</span>he PHM’s
manifesto, is five years old. It has been disseminated quite widely worldwide.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">2. The world has moved on
since. But, clearly, for the worse in almost all fronts the PHM has strong
feelings about. Most worrisome is the fact that most of the world’s shifts for
the worse have become so depressingly predictable, and nobody seems to be
succeeding in doing much about them. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">3. The PCH’s ‘Call for
Action’ predicted much of what we are witnessing; we were and still are “on the
dot”.<span> </span>But to continue to be “on the
dot”, we simply have to reassess where we are and what we have, and have not,
achieved. Just to make yet further predictions of doom would be to utterly fail
all that and those we stand for.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">4. The claims on various
duty bearers made in the People’s Charter for Health have, in all honesty,
mostly not been heard, headed, or resulted in across-the-board improvements in
the right to health.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">There have been advances,
yes. But few we can call our own little victories.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">5. Our activism has not been
commensurate to the fast changes we are all witnessing in the world, i.e.
tougher times call for<span> </span>more commitment,
more militancy, new activists in our midst and, above all, more intensive
networking and coordinated local and global action. We need more and active
national PHM circles!<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">6. Much more action is
needed both locally AND globally; it is not either or: it is both. Succeeding
in mobilizing local communities is simply not enough; in the end, global events
tend to supercede the many local victories we are having.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">7. Does this mean we deserve
what we are getting? Or, is our Charter too ambitious? The answer is two times
NO.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">The PCH is a long-term
platform of what principles we strive for. But to strive, we have to start
acting. And the PCH does call for very concrete actions. But a call is just
that: somebody has to respond to it!<span>
</span>There just are no miracles; we have to make them happen... Nothing is
given to our cause; we have to fight for it. <span style="color:red"><span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">8. It all boils down to
power relations. For us, power comes from creating greater clarity about<span> </span>the problems and issues of our times, clarity
about their structural causes and how they affect health, plus clarity about
the best courses of ACTION to follow to remove the major barriers and
determinants of negative outcomes. Power also crucially comes from coalescing
into a veritable global movement.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">9. <a href="mailto:pha-exchange@kabissa.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></a> the PHM’s list-server, <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">phm-exchange, </span>now serving close to 900 individuals and
organizations, has opened a forum for global discussion and education; it needs
more contributions from more members. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">10. The PHM’s website<span> </span>has been up four years now; it needs dynamic
updates and also more contributions. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">11. If, as a global
Movement, we want to really be what we call ourselves --as tough as it may be--
we all have to stay reasonably up to date and provide people’s outlooks on and
progressive analyses of what is happening (both in general and in health), plus
giving some guidance for concerted action. On key issues, the list-server
should thus spill into the website, i.e. the website has to become the
repository of our collective thought and our concrete calls for action.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">12. PHM is now organized in
‘action circles’ --small groups collectively working on specific topics, mostly
through email. These groups are starting to give direction to our actions
--actions rooted in equity/human rights/sustainable development-based analyses
applied mostly to the most urgent global health issues. These circles have to
multiply from now on and show greater productivity. Essential is that its
members give those circles precious <u>time</u>! PHM work should not be done on
extra-available-time…between 10 and midnight….<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">13. As regards the PCH’s
many ‘Calls for Action’ --all pointing at blocking or reversing negative, and
promoting positive determinants of health-- all of them are still very much
current. As a reminder, these are calls for specific actions made in the areas
of:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">-health as a human right
(and not only the right to health), <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">-the economic, social,
political and environmental challenges to health,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">-war, violence, conflict and
natural disasters,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">-a comprehensive, more
democratic PHC with adequate resources <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span>and greater accountability,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">-greater people’s
empowerment and their greater participation, and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">-stronger local people’s
organization and a strong global movement.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">14. The specific actions
proposed in the PCH under each of these headings are not to be seen as the
content for a collection of fitting slogans or as a wish-list. Eventually, the
PHM will have one or more action circles addressing each of these areas and
these circles will network with other groups already working on each of these
issues. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">15. But for this to happen,
more of each of us need to get involved.<span>
</span>It is, therefore, not sufficient for this short document to reassess
where the People’s Health Movement stands in 2005. Each of its members needs to
re-commit her/himself: We need more of your time! Perhaps the moment has come
to abandon some of the irrelevant work we all get involved in. We can no longer
afford missing the forest by focusing on the trees...<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">16. Furthermore, we are sure
that --world events going the way they are-- our potential PHM constituency has
grown out there (!). More people oppose what is happening. People are more
anxious than before to be counted-in in actions that will do something to
reverse current trends. PHM will reach out to these new strategic allies. We <u>do</u>
offer a global and working organization --with clear, explicit<span> </span>rallying points and principles (found in the
PCH)-- that is engaged in providing a sustained and coherent set of proposed
people-centered actions adapted to existing and emerging situations. These
actions may still be small and scattered, but they are additive.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">17. The People’s Health
Movement can and has taken up the historical challenge to be such a network.
Don’t you forget that!<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">18. Yes, the world has
become more complicated in just 5 years since our PHA2000 in Bangladesh. And it
is heading to greater uncertainties, all negatively impinging on the health of
the poorest among us.<span> </span>But our challenge
is still the same --though more urgent-- and still calls for the main actions
and demands called for by our flagship document, the People’s Charter for
Health.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">19. We particularly call on
delegates to and participants in this year’s PHA2 to join our Movement<span> </span>as <u>active</u> participants--regardless of
your official or non-official status. [To start with, you should regularly<span> </span>visit our website at <a href="http://www.phmovement.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">www.phmovement.org</a>, contact our
Secretariat at </span><a href="mailto:secretariat@phmovement.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">secretariat@phmovement.org</a><span style="font-size:12pt"> and join the pha-exchange
list-server by writing to its moderator at </span><a href="mailto:claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">cschuftan@phmovement.org</span></a> <span style="font-size:12pt">].<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:14pt">THE PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT
(PHM) IN 2005: STILL AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE STRUGGLE FOR ‘HEALTH FOR ALL NOW’!<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:14pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">1. Five years after the
historical People’s Health Assembly in Savar, Bangladesh, December 2000, the
PHM with affiliates in five continents, re-commits itself to its flagship
document, the People’s Health Charter (PCH).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">2. The analysis made in the
PCH applies to today’s world every bit as much as it did five years ago --only
that the sense of urgency has been hightened!<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">3. Our vision remains one
striving for peace, equity, and an ecologically-sustainable development.<span> </span>We see the health crisis we described for
most countries in the world in the year 2000 to have, if anything, deepened.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">4. </span><span style="font-size:12pt">Fully aware that our legitimacy is only as strong as
the weakest link in our Movement, w</span><span style="font-size:12pt">e re-commit ourselves to the “Call for Action”
points made in the PCH as they relate to actively influencing the many direct
and indirect determinants of health.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">In a nutshell, we still
stand for:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">5. Combating the negative
impacts of Globalization as a worldwide economic and political ideology and
process.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">6. Significantly reforming
the IFIs and the WTO to make them more responsive to poverty alleviation and
the Health for All Now movement.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">7. A forgiveness of the
foreign debt of least developed countries and use of its equivalent for poverty
reduction, health and education activities.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">8. Greater checks and
restraints of the freewheeling powers of transnational corporations, especially
pharmaceutical houses (and mechanisms to ensure their<span> </span>compliance).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">9. Greater and a more equitable
household food security.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">10. Some type of a Tobin tax
that taxes runaway international financial transfers.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">11. Unconditionally
supporting the emancipation of women and the respect of their full rights.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">12. Putting health higher in
the development agenda of governments.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">13. The health (and other)
rights of displaced people.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">14. Halting the process of
privatization of public health facilities and for greater controls of the
already installed private health sector.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">15. More equitable, just and
empowered people’s participation in health and development matters.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">16. A greater focus on
poverty alleviation in national and international development plans.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">17. Greater and
unconditional access of the poor to health services and treatment regardless of
their ability to pay.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">18. Strengthening public
institutions, political parties and trade unions involved, as we are, in the
struggle of the poor.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">19. Opposing restricted<span> </span>and dogmatic fundamentalist views of he
development process.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">20. Greater vigilance and
activism in matters of water and air pollution, the dumping of toxics, waste
disposal, climate changes and CO2 emissions, soil erosion and other attacks on
the environment.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">21. Militant opposition to
the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources and the destruction of
forests.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">22. Protecting biodiversity
and opposing biopiracy and the indiscriminate use of genetically modified
seeds.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">23. Holding violators of
environmental crimes accountable.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">24. Systematically applying
environmental assessments of development projects and people-centered
environmental audits.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">25. Opposing war and the
current USA-led, blind ‘anti-terrorist’ campaigns.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">26. Categorically opposing
the Israeli invasion of Palestinian towns and the construction of the wall
(having, among other, a sizeable negative impact on the health of the
Palestinian people).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">27.The democratization of
the UN bodies and especially of the Security Council, as well as of the IFIs.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">28. Getting more actively
involved in actions addressing the silent epidemic of violence against women.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">29. More prompt responses
and preventive/rehabilitative measures in cases of natural disasters.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">30. Making a renewed call
for a comprehensive, more democratic PHC that is given the resources needed
--holding governments accountable in this task.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">31. Vehemently opposing the
commoditization and privatization of health care (and the sale of public
facilities).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">32. Fostering independent
national drug policies focused around essential, generic drugs.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">33. Lobbying for the
transformation of WHO, supporting and actively working with its new Commission
on the Social Determinants of Health making sure it remains accountable to
civil society.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">34. Assuring WHO stays
staunchly independent from corporate interests.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">35. Sustaining and promoting
the defense of effective patients’ rights.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">36. Actively working for an
expansion and incorporation into PHC of traditional medicine.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">37. Revamping and making
changes in the training of health personnel to assure it covers the great
issues of our time as depicted in our PCH.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">38. Insisting on public
health-oriented (and not for-profit) health research worldwide.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">39. Promoting strong
people’s organizations and a global movement working on health issues.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">40. Being more proactive in
countering the media that are at the service of the negative aspects of the
globalization process.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">41. Putting people’s
empowerment<span> </span>first so as to lead them to
greater control of the health services they need and get.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">42. Creating the bases for a
better analysis and better concerted actions by our members through greater
involvement of them in the PHM’s website and list-server.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">43. Fostering a global
solidarity network that can support and reach our fellow members when facing
disasters, emergencies or acute repressive situations.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">Specific actions are
proposed in the PCH for each of these headings above.<span style="color:red"><span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">Join our Movement<span> </span>as <u>active</u> participants.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt">[To start with, you should
regularly<span> </span>visit our website at <a href="http://www.phmovement.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">www.phmovement.org</a>, contact our
Secretariat at </span><a href="mailto:secretariat@phmovement.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">secretariat@phmovement.org</a><span style="font-size:12pt"> and join the pha-exchange
list-server by writing to its moderator at </span><a href="mailto:claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">cschuftan@phmovement.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt">].<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="color:red">EL
MOVIMIENTO PARA LA SALUD DE LOS PUEBLOS (PHM): UN TIEMPO PARA LA REFLEXION.
(MIRANDO LA CRISIS GLOBAL DE LA SALUD CON NUEVOS OJOS: LA POSICION DEL PHM EN
2005).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">1.El Charter de la Salud de los Pueblos,
el verdadero manifiesto de PHM, cumplira<span>
</span>5 anios y ha sido distribuido ampliamente en el mundo en mas de 40
idiomas.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">2. El mundo ha avanzado desde entonces.
Pero, claramente, avanzado para peor en la mayoria de los fentes en los cuales
el PHM trabaja. Lo mas preocupante es el hecho de que la mayor parte de estos
reveses fueron predichos, y nadie parece haber prestado mucha atencion para
hacer algo al respecto.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">3. El llamado a la accion de nuestro
Charter predijo mucho de lo que hemos visto pasar: estuvimos entonces y aun
estamos en lo cierto en nuestro analisis. Pero para continuar estando en lo
cierto en predecir lo que vemos pasara, debemos reanalizar donde nos
encontramos y lo que hemos y no hemos logrado como movimiento. Volver a hacer
predicciones de todo lo malo que pasara seria un signo de nuestro fracaso para
nosotros y para aquellos que pretendemos representar.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">4. Las peticiones concretas que hacemos en
el Charter a aquellos responsables de la salud, honestamente, no han sido en su
mayoria efectivas; no hemos visto la mayoria de los cambios que alli pedimos y
un verdadero derecho a la salud realizarse. Han habido avances, si. Pero muy
pocos de ellos podemos llamarlos nuestras pequenias victorias.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">5. Nuestro activismo no ha estado a la
altura de los cambios negativos de los que hemos sido testigos en el mundo
entero. Tiempos duros como en los que vivimos llaman para una mayor dedicacion
y militancia de nuestra parte, mas activistas en nuestro seno y, sobre todo,
una comunicacion mas proactiva entre nuestros grupos activos para formar redes
de accion coordinada a nivel local y global. Necesitamos mas y mas activos
circulos nacionales de PHM!<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">6. Mas activismo es necesario a nivel
local y global; no se trata del uno o del otro….necesitamos ambos. Mobilizar
comunidades locales en forma efectiva ya no es suficiente; en ultima instancia,
los eventos globales tienden a opacar las muchas pequenias victories locales
que estamos teniendo.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">7. Significa esto que (por falta de
activismo) nos merecemos lo que esta pasando?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">O es quizas nuestro Charter demasiado
ambicioso? La respuesta es dos veces NO.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">Nuestro Charter es una plataforma a largo
plazo de los principios y valores que nos motivan. Pero para lograr dichos
principios tenemos que empezar a actuar mas efectivamente. El Charter nos llama
a acciones muy concretas. Pero un llamado es solo un llamado: alguien tiene que
responder a el! No podemos simplemente esperar milagros; tenemos que hacerlos
suceder…Nada es dado en nuestra causa; tenemos que luchar por lo que creemos es
justo.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">8. Todo se reduce a realciones de poder.
Para nosotros en PHM, el poder vendra de la promocion de mayor claridad acerca
de los problemas de nuestro tiempo y las causas estructurales que los explican
y como estas, a la vez, afectan la salud. Tambien debemos promover mayor
claridad acerca de las acciones a tomar para remover aquellas causas
estructurales de las tendencias negativas de que hablamos mas arriba. El poder
tambien vendra crucialmente de nuestra capacidad de coalecer en un movimiento
de alcance global.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">9.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> <span style="color:red">el list-server de PHM, ahora alcanzando unos 900 individuos y
organizaciones, ha abierto un foro permanente para la discusion de estos
problemas globales y para educar a nuestra membrecia; necesita mas
contribuciones de todos nuestros miembros!<span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">10. El sitio web de PHM ha estado
funcionando hace un par de anios; ahora tiene un manejo mas dinamico y tambien
mas contribuciones de nuestros miembros.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">11. Si, como un movimiento global,
queremos realmente ser lo que nos llamamos: Global, aunque suene duro, debemos
mantenernos al dia de lo que pasa en el mundo y en la salud para asi poder
hacer analisis progresistas y democraticos de lo que esta pasando. Ademas,
debemos ser capaces de dar liderazgo para las acciones consideradas necesarias
para avanzar nuestros principios. En asuntos de importancia, el pha-exchange y
el sitio web deben convertirse en nuestro lugar de encuentro para nuestros analisis,
nuestro pensamiento colectivo y nuestros llamados a la accion concreta.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">12. PHM esta ahora oranizado en circulos
de accion. Estos son pequenios grupos que trabajan colectivamente sobre temas
especificos, especialmente a traves del correo electronico. Estos grupos estan
comenzando a darnos direcciones para la accion concreta sobre estos temas
especificos. Eastas acciones estan basadas en los principios de la equidad, los
derechos humanos y el desarrollo sostenible aplicados a los mas urgentes<span> </span>problemas globales de salud. De ahora en
adelante, estos circulos deberan multiplicarse y mostrar una mas alta productividad.
Sera esencial que sus miembros le den el tiempo necesario a esta importante
labor. El trabajo de PHM NO puede hacerse en tiempo extra robado a lo que
normalmente hacemos, o sea, entre las 10 y las 12 de la noche…<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">13. En realcion a los muchos llamados a la
accion del Charter --todos dirigidos a revertir las determinantes negativas de
la salud y promover las positivas-- todos estos llamados son, despues de 5
anios, aun muy pertinentes. A modo de repaso, estos son llamados<span> </span>para acciones especificas en las areas de:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">-la salud y el derecho a la salud,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">-los desafios economicos, sociales,
politicos y ambientales a la buena salud,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">-la guerra, la violencia, los conflictos humanos
y los desastres naturales,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">-los cuidados de salud primaria mas
comprehensivos, democraticos y con mas recursos,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">-un mayor empoderamiento de la poblacion
para su mayor participacion efectiva en asuntos de salud, y<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">-una organizacion popular mas fuerte y la
creacion de un movimiento genuinamente global.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">14. Las acciones especificas propuestas en
el Charter bajo cada una de estas rubricas no deben verse como el contenido de
una serie de slogans o com un mero listado de nuestras aspiraciones. Esperamos
tener circulos de accion especifica dedicados a cada uno de estos temas en un futuro
proximo y esperamos que estos circulos interactuaran en una red con otros
grupos que ya trabajan sobre estos temas en diferentes partes del mundo.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">15. Pero para que esto se haga realidad,
mas de cada uno de nosotros necesita dar de su tiempo y talento. No es, por
ello, suficiente que este corto documento (el Charter) haga un diagnostico de
donde nos encontramos hoy como movimiento. Cada uno de nuestros miembros tiene
que re-dedicarse al trabajo de PHM: Necesitamos mas de vuestro tiempo! Quizas
ha llegado el momento de dejar de hacer todas esas cosas que todos hacemos que
son menos relevantes que el trabajo de PHM. No podemos ya mas dejar de ver el
bosque por concentrarnos en los arboles….<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">16. Mas aun, estamos seguros que, de
seguir los eventos mundiales su cauce, nuestra membrecia potencial esta
creciendo en todo el mundo. Mas y mas personas estan oponiendose activamente a
lo que esta pasando y estan mas ansiosos de ser contados en las acciones que se
embarcan para, de alguna manera, revertir las tendencias en curso. El PHM esta
dispuesto a tender una mano a estos nuevos aliados estrategicos. Mal que mal,
ofrecemos una organizacion mundial que esta trabajando activamente y que tiene
objetivos claros y explicitos y que esta comprometida a ejecutar una serie de
acciones sustentables y adaptadas a las mas urgentes necesidades populares en
todas las situaciones emergentes. Estas acciones puede que aun sean pequenias y
dispersas pero son definitivamente aditivas.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">17. El Movimiento Mundial por la Salud de
los Pueblos puede y ha respondido al desafio historico de crear una red de
individuos y organizacions que luchan por una salud mas equitativa. No debemos
olvidar este aspecto!<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">18. Sin lugar a dudas, el mundo es mas
complicado hoy que hace cinco anios cuando tuvimos nuestra primera asamblea en
Bangladesh. Y el mundo se dirige hacia horizontes de aun mayor incertidumbre
que seguramente tendran efectos negativos sobre la salud de los mas pobres
entre nosotros. Por ello, nuestro desafio continua siendo el mismo --aunque mas
urgente aun-- y aun llama por lo mucho que queda por hacer como ya expuesto en
nuestro documento rector, el PCH.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">19. Hacemos un llamado a los delegado(a)s
y participantes en nuestra Segunda Asamblea a formalment unirse a nuestro
movimiento como activo(a)s participantes, sin prejuicio de vuestro status
oficial o no-oficial.<span> </span>[Para comenzar,
visiten regularmente nuestro sitio web <a href="http://www.phmovement.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">www.phmovement.org</a>
y contacten nuestro secrtetariado en <a href="mailto:secretariat@phmovement.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">secretariat@phmovement.org</a>
. Tambien los invitamos a participar en nuestro list-server pha-exchange lo que
pueden hacer escribiendo a<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><a href="mailto:cschuftan@phmovement.org">cschuftan@phmovement.org</a></span><a href="mailto:claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"></a>].<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:14pt;color:red">EL PHM EN 2005: AUN EN LA VANGUARDIA DE LA
LUCHA POR LA SALUD PARA TODOS, AHORA!<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">1 Cinco anios despues de la historica
asamblea del PHM en Bangladesh en diciembre del 2000, el Movimiento con
afiliados en cinco continents se re-dedica a su documneto retor, el Charter de
la Salud de los Pueblos (PCH).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">2. El analisis efectuado en el PCH es aplicable
al mundo de hoy tanto como lo fue en el anio 2000 --solo que el sentido de
urgencia es hoy mayor!<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">3. Nuestra vision sigue siendo una que se
dedica a la paz, la equidad y e desarrollo sustentable. Vemos la crisis mundial
de la salud que describimos en el 2000 como habiendose profundizado.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">4. Dado que nuestra legitimidad es solo
tan fuerte como el eslabon mas debil de nuestro Movimiento, sus miembros nos
re-dedicamos al Llamado a La Accion del Charter en tanto que este puede activamente
influenciar las muchas causas directas e indirectas del pobre estado actual de
la salud en el mundo.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">En muy resumidas cuentas, el PHM y sus
miembros estan por:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">5. Combatir los impactos negativos de la
Globalizacion como ideologia y proceso econmico y politico.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">6. Reformar significativamente las
instituciones financieras internacionales y la OIC para hacerlas mas receptivas
a acciones de alivio de la pobreza y al movimiento de Salud Para Todos Ahora! <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">7. El perdon de la deuda externa de los
paies menos desarrollados y el uso de esos recursos para acciones de reduccion
de la pobreaza, para la salud, la nutricion y para la educacion.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">8. Un mayor control y reduccion de los
poderes excesivos de las corporaciones transnacionales, especialmente las
grandes casas farmaceuticas (y por los mecanismos que aseguren que estas
empresas cambien sus operaciones).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">9. Una mayor y mas equitativa seguridad
alimentaria a nivel mundial.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">10. Alguna variante del impuesto Tobin</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> <span style="color:red">que
grave las transferencias financieras internacionales.<span> </span><span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">11. Incondicionalmente apoyar la
emancipacion de la mujer y el total respeto de sus derechos.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">12. Poner la saud en un lugar de mayor
prominencia en las agendas de desarollo de los gobiernos.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">13. El derecho a la salud (y otros) de las
personas desplazadas.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">14. Revertir el proceso de privatizacion
de las unidades de salud y por un mayor control del sector privado en salud ya in-situ.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">15. Una participacion mas equitable, justa
y empoderadora de la poblacion en todos los asuntos de salud y desarrollo.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">16. Una focalizacion mas concentrada en el
alivio de la pobreza en los planes nacionales e internacionales de desarrollo. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">17. Un mayor e incondicional acceso de las
personas pobres a los servicios de salud independientemente de su habilidad de
pagar.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">18. Reforzar las instituciones publicas,
partidos politicos y sindicatos que estan como nosotros, dedicados a emancipar
los derechos de los mas pobres.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">19. Una oposicion a las visions
fundamentalistas restrictas y dogmaticas del proceso de desarrollo.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">20. Una<span>
</span>mayor vigilancia y activismo en asuntos de agua potable, contaminacion
ambiental, el desecho de substancias toxicas, los cambios de clima y las
emisiones de CO2, al igual que la erosion y otras agresiones al medio ambiente.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">21. Una oposicion militante a la
explotacion no sostenible de recursos naturales y la destruccion de nuestros
bosques.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">22. La proteccion de la biodiversidad y
una oposicion a la indiscriminada bio-pirateria y el uso indiscriminado de
semillas geneticamente modificadas.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">23. Hacer responsables a aquellas personas
que violan criminalmente el medio ambiente.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">24. La aplicacion sistematica de
diagnosticos ambientales en todo proyecto de salud al igual que auditorias
populares de estos efectos ambieltales.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">25. Una oposicion<span> </span>la guerra y la presente ciega campania
anti-terrorista de los EEUU.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">26. Una oposicion categorical a la
invasion Israeli de ciudades palestinas y la construccin del muro de la
verguenza (ambas teniendo efectos negativos serios sobre la salud de los
palestinos).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">27. Una democratizacion las Naciones
Unidas y en especial del Consejo de Seguridad y de las instituciones de Bretton
Woods (FMI y BM).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">28. Un compromiso mas activo en las
acciones que tratan de menguar la epidemia de violencia contra las mujeres.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">29. Una respuesta mas rapida en casos de
desastres naturales.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">30. Renovar nuestro llamado por servicios
de atencion prmaria integrales y mas democraticos a los que le sean otorgados
los recursos necesarios para funcionar; hacer responsables a los gobiernos por
esta tarea.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">31. Una oposicion cerrada a la
comoditizacion y la privatizacion de la atencion de la salud (y la venta al
sector privado de unidades de salud publicas).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">32. Promover politicas farmaceuticas
nacionales indepediente enfocadas en medicamentos esenciales genericos.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">33. Abogar por una transformacion de la
OMS y trabajar estrechamente con su nueva Comision de las Determinantes Sociales
de la Salud asegurandose que dicha Comision sea responsable ante la sociedad
civil.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">34. Continuar alerta para que la OMS se
mantenga firmemente independiente de intereses comerciales corporativos.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">35. Apoyar y promover la defensa efectiva
de los derechos de los pacientes.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">36. Trabajar activamente por la expansion
e incorporacion de la medicina tradicional al interior de los cuidados
primaries de salud.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">37. Modernizar y hacer los cambios
neesarios en los curricula de formacion del personal de la salud para asegurar
que sean cubiertos los grandes problemas de la salud contemporanea como
presentados en nuestro Charter.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">38. Insistir en una investigacion en salud
centrada alrededor de los grandes problemas de salud publica en todo el mundo.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">39. Promover la organizacion polpular y la
formacion de un fuerte movimiento mundial al servicio de una mejoria de los
servicios de salud para las personas pobres.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">40. Contrarestar mas activamente los
medios de comiunicacion de masas al servicio de los intereses mas abyectos del
proceso de globalizacion capitalista.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">41. Poner las acciones de empoderamiento
popular como prioridad de manera de darle mas control a grupos comunitarios
sobre los servicios de salud que necesitan y que reciben o no reciben.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">42. Sentar las bases para un mayor
analisis y mejores acciones de parte de nuestra membrecia a traves de cada
uno(a) participando mas en acciones promividas por nuestro sitio web y nuestro
list-server.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">43. Promover una red de solidaridad
internacional que apoye a nuestros miembros en casos de desastres naturales,
emergencies y situaciones de repression politica.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">Acciones especificas han sido propuestas
en nuestro Charter para cada uno de estos rubros.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">Unase a nuestro movimiento como
participante activo(a).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red">[Para comenzar, visite regularmente
nuestro sitio web <a href="http://www.phmovement.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">www.phmovement.org</a> y
contacte a nuestro secrtetariado en <a href="mailto:secretariat@phmovement.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">secretariat@phmovement.org</a>
. Tambien lo(a) invitamos a participar en nuestro list-server pha-exchange lo
que puede hacer escribiendo a <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><a href="mailto:cschuftan@phmovement.org">cschuftan@phmovement.org</a></span>].<span></span></span></p>
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