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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">*Tribute to David Sanders: An African giant has gone*<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Death has torn from the loves of his family, the people?s
health and<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">anti-globalization movement, a baobab creating as results a
big emptiness.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Tribute to a unique and irreplaceable African who dedicated
his life to<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">helping others.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">We are speechless to express our gratitude to this faithful
friend, this<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">guide that made us hope and believe in people?s health, and
who has always<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">been present and committed by our side until his last
breath.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">We can individually and collectively be proud of one of our
intrepid<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">companions. His struggles, David led them with a
characteristic firm<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">conviction and openness. He was one of the pioneers of the
struggle for<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">health and human dignity in Africa, an activist like all of
us are dying to<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">be one day. A real giant of Africa!<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">If David Sanders did not receive a Nobel Peace Prize, it may
be that the<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">world is not yet grateful enough to one of its ??artisans??.
But the health<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">movement will still remember that in South Africa, there was
not only<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Mandela or Desmond Tutu, there also was... David Sanders!<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">*The Struggle for Health: Medicine and the politics of
underdevelopment*, *a<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">book of influence*<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">David Sanders is an influential actor of the public health
movement. His<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">book *The Struggle for Health: Medicine and the Politics of<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Underdevelopment *co-authored with Richard Carver in 1985
(Macmillan: UK)<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">has influenced academics and civil society in the past three
decades,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">including resistance to neoliberalism in health.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">In this book, the founder and former director of the School
of Public<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Health at the University of Western Cape first demonstrated
that the reduction<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">in illness and premature mortality in UK has resulted from
improved living<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">standards and hygiene and only to a very limited extent from
specific<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">preventive measures and curative services. He went on to say
that<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">transplantation into low and middle income countries of the
western health<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">system is part of the broader process of expanding the
capitalist system,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">adding that Western health systems are more concerned with
the medical<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">profession and the commercial interests rather than peoples
well-being.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">According to him, far from improving health, these
transplantations<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">maintain the system that perpetuates poor development and
health problems.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Finally, he appealed to expatriate health workers to make
available to<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">their home country what they have learned so that primary
health care will<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">become the basis of health care systems and there will be
more democracy<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">and transparency in the management of health.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">One of the most beautiful tributes to the famous disappeared
would be to<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">read (or reread), understand and adopt this book of
influence that fueled<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">the anti-neoliberal protest in Africa and around the world.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Pacome Tometissi,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">PHM West & Central Africa<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">[Francais:*La mort ? arrach? ? l?affection de sa famille, du
mouvement populaire pour la Sant? et de la contestation antimondialisation, un
baobab cr?ant ainsi<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">un immense vide. Hommage ? un Africain unique et
irrempla?able qui a d?di?<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">sa vie ? aider les autres.*<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Comment trouver les mots pour exprimer notre gratitude ? cet
ami fid?le, ce<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">guide qui nous a fait esp?rer et croire en la sant? des
peuples, et qui<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">?tait toujours pr?sent et engag? ? nos cot?s jusqu?? son
dernier souffle?<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Nous pouvons individuellement et collectivement ?tre fiers
de l?un de nos<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">intr?pides compagnons. Ses luttes, *David* les a men?es avec
une conviction<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">ferme et un esprit d?ouverture caract?ristiques. Il *fut un
des pionniers<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">de la lutte pour la sant? et de la dignit? humaine en Afrique,
un activiste<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">comme nous tous mourrons d?envie de l??tre un jour. Un vrai
g?ant<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">d?Afrique.*<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Entre autres choses, on retiendra que David fut une vraie
b?te de sc?ne et<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">faisait salle comble lors de ses conf?rences annuelles ?
l?Universit? du<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Cap Ouest. Si David Sanders n?a pas re?u de Nobel de la
paix, c?est<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">peut-?tre que le monde n?est pas encore assez reconnaissant
envers l?un de<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">ses artisans. Mais le mouvement de sant? publique retiendra
quand m?me<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">qu?en Afrique du Sud, il n?y avait pas que Mandela ou Desmond
Tutu, il<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">avait aussi un certain?David Sanders !<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">*La Lutte pour la Sant?: la M?decine et les Politiques du<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Sous-d?veloppement, un ouvrage d?influence*<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">David Sanders est un homme d?influence dans le mouvement de
contestation du<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">secteur de la sant? publique. Son ouvrage *La lutte pour la
sant?: la<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">m?decine et la politique du sous-d?veloppement* cosign? avec
Richard Carver<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">en 1985 chez Macmillan au Royaumes Unis a influenc? aussi
bien les milieux<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">universitaires que la soci?t? civile de ces trois derni?res
d?cennies<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">notamment la r?sistance contre le n?olib?ralisme dans la
sant?.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Dans cet ouvrage, le fondateur et ancien directeur de
l?Ecole de Sant?<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">publique de l?Universit? du Cap Ouest ? d?abord d?montr? que
la r?duction<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">sensible de la mortalit? et de la morbidit? en Grande
Bretagne r?sultait<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">beaucoup moins des services de pr?vention et de soins que de
l?am?lioration<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">des conditions de vie et d?hygi?ne pour la plupart. Il a
ensuite indiqu?<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">que la transplantation dans les pays ? revenus faible et
interm?diaire du<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">syst?me de sant? occidental fait partie du processus plus
g?n?ral de<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">l'extension du syst?me capitaliste<span> </span>ajoutant que les syst?mes de sant?<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">occidentaux sont plus pr?occup?s par la profession m?dicale
et les int?r?ts<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">commerciaux que par le bien-?tre des populations. Selon lui,
loin de<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">contribuer ? la sant?, ils aident ?, de nombreuses fa?ons,
maintenir le<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">syst?me qui perp?tue le mal d?veloppement et les probl?mes
de sant?. Pour<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">finir, il a lanc? un appel aux agents de sant? de la
diaspora afin qu?ils<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">mettent ? la disposition de leurs pays d?origine ce qu?ils
auront appris<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">afin que non seulement les soins de sant? primaires
deviennent la base des<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">syst?mes de sant? mais aussi qu?il y ait plus de d?mocratie
et de<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">transparence dans la gestion de la sant?.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Un des plus beaux hommages ? l?illustre disparu serait de
lire (ou relire),<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">comprendre et adopter cet ouvrage d?influence qui a aliment?
la<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">contestation anti-n?olib?ral en Afrique et partout dans le
monde.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Pacome Tometissi]<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">I was shocked to hear the sad news of demise of Dr. David
Sanders. He was a believer of Health For All and a challenger for social
justice. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">With deep griefs and sorrow I condole his family, and
colleagues in PHM, and wish his soul rest in Peace. With sympathy and
solidarity. Dr. Mohammad Ali Barzegar.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Sorry to hear about the demise of David Sanders.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">In solidarity,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Reza Haque<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">(With GK since 1973)<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Sad news indeed! Accept condolences of PHM Sri Lanka.<span> </span>It?s an irreplaceable loss to PHM future
activities.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Sirimal Peiris<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span> </span></p>
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