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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">After April 7th, the action
continues: "Spread the solidarity, not the virus."</span><span style="font-family:Cambria" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">"Let's confine finance
and austerity!"<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">The European Network Against
Commercialization and Privatization of Health and Social Protection and the
People's Health Movement welcomed the convergence of 160 organisations across
Europe under the motto "Let's spread solidarity not the virus" on the
occasion of the day of action against the commercialisation of health on 7
April.<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">Despite being confined to their homes,
hundreds of people, individually and collectively, joined the action,
demonstrating the <b>people's strong support for a public or non-profit health
system that serves the population</b>. Find the <b>interactive map of the 7
April</b> action by following the link here: <b><i><a href="http://bit.ly/Agir4Health">bit.ly/Agir4Health</a></i></b><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic,
the decentralized actions of 7 April have also shown that health workers,
patients, activists, and many others agree: <span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">1. Immediate <b>human and material
resources</b> to fight the pandemic and protect people's health in the future:
recruitment and training of health personnel, urgent staffing and stockpile
management of materials are needed to deal with crisis situations.</span><span style="font-family:Cambria" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">2. <b>Austerity policies and increasing
marketisation</b>, which have led to the systematic dismantling of public
health systems in Europe and the lack of qualified staff in hospitals,
retirement homes and the social sector, <b>should be abandoned once and for
all.</b></span><span style="font-family:Cambria" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">3. <b>Medicines and protective equipment
have to be developed and produced in the interest of public health</b>, not to
foster the profits of the industry. Effective and safe medications, protective
equipment and vaccines for prevention and treatment of Covid 19, must be
available for free to people no matter where they live, without out-of-pocket
expenditures and paid for by national health systems at fair prices. </span><span style="font-family:Cambria" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">Once the pandemic is over, the
struggle to achieve “Health for All” will continue</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">. The idea of Health for All
encompasses not only a vision of comprehensive health care equally accessible
to everyone but also the idea of a world rooted in harmony, equity, and
solidarity. This is why we reject the current economic model of the EU, which
is based on austerity, not solidarity.<span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">We demand a <b>radical reorientation of
public funds</b> towards the basic rights of the population, such as
employment, decent wages and housing, education, energy, food and water.<span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">To achieve this, let us <b>confine the
financial markets</b>. We must steer away from brutal fiscal policies such as
those we experienced in the previous crisis. The 750 billion euros from the
European Central Bank (ECB) should not be used to feed the financial markets
but to finance the social and ecological needs of the people; it should be
focused on protecting and advancing the physical, mental and social well-being
of all. Tax evasion must be combated and heavily punished.<span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">Instead of systems faithful to market
logic and uncontrolled competition, we need to drive a transition towards a <b>socially
and ecologically just and responsible world.</b> The needs and organisation of
care systems should be under the direct democratic control of citizen
committees and coordinated at all levels of society.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Cambria" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">Therefore, we urge the
European states to adopt a more sustained strategy to negotiate the <b>prices
of medicines, medical devices and vaccines</b>. If the pharmaceutical industry
insists on setting unduly high prices, patent rights must</span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">be revoked. Similarly, production of
medicines and medical devices and stockpiles must be under the control of the
public authorities; in the event of a break in manufacture or supply, patents
must be revoked. Moreover, we demand the allocation of necessary funds for
public and independent pharmacological research. It is important in the near
future to set up a strategy to move towards a coordinated and socialized public
European space of research and production of new drugs.<span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">Finally, we need to <b>support and ensure
the success of the mobilisation of health and other essential workers</b> that
over the last months have been working tirelessly to protect our health and
lives in the face of inadequate personal protection and, very often, inhumane
working hours.<span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">This is why the European Network, the
People's Health Movement, and all signatory organizations call for <b>unitary
responses on the local, national, and international level to build a "Day
After" that will break with the liberal recipes of the past. <span></span></b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">We propose to the social movement as a
whole to <b>set a date in September 2020 as the first international initiative</b>
for the expression of our demands.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Cambria" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:black" lang="EN-GB">LET US FIGHT TOGETHER FOR A
STRONG UNIVERSAL PUBLICLY FUNDED HEALTH SYSTEM CAPABLE OF DEALING WITH HEALTH
CRISES TODAY AND TOMORROW<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="FR">At the initiative of <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="FR">European Network against the Privatization and Commercialization of Health
and Social Protection </span><span lang="FR"><span></span></span></p>
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</span><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:europeanhealthnetwork@gmail.com" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span>europeanhealthnetwork@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="FR"> -
+32499 42 44 48<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="FR">People’s Health Movement<span></span></span></p>
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