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<span style="line-height: 18.3458px;">Dear colleagues and friends, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">I am writing to ask for your organisational** support and sign on to this
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: blue; line-height: 17px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C22McD8KVRMkEfc23Ghb3wPvaHcG6vjvjQgk9xz3LcI/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" id="OWA3d825a26-74fb-821a-b62f-52a94685cd01" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">joint
open statement</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;"> calling on publicly owned Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) to stop spending development funds on for-profit
private healthcare providers. Please click </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: blue; line-height: 17px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0eRdZxrxOe-zff57zbLgcozXmxoFCThKu4LIgCAecGDhAAg/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" id="OWA2685a5b6-d954-2dd1-7fb7-9558eefbaf3c" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="1" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">here</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">
if you support the statement and note the initial deadline of <b>Wednesday 15</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 17px;"><b>th</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;"><b>
May</b>. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;"> <b>Context</b> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">Over the last two decades there has been significant growth in publicly owned development banks - led by the World Bank Group’s IFC -
channelling development funds to for-profit private hospitals and clinics in the Global South. Despite these funds being mandated to fight poverty and achieve globally agreed development goals, including universal health coverage, a growing body of evidence
from civil society organisations and academics (including two new reports from Oxfam –
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: blue; line-height: 17px;"><a href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/sick-development" target="_blank" id="OWA409ef42c-1d2c-4297-9277-f0ec8a45aa5a" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="2" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">Sick
Development</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;"> and
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: blue; line-height: 17px;"><a href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/first-do-no-harm-examining-impact-ifcs-support-private-healthcare-india" target="_blank" id="OWA82106ab0-17db-e1c8-1006-8c7a2ce60655" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="3" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">First,
Do no Harm</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">) shows that these investments are doing the opposite. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">In fact, DFI funded private hospitals are
<b>expensive </b>and <b>out-of-reach</b>, <b>cause impoverishment </b>and are implicated in a variety of alleged and confirmed
<b>human rights abuses </b>including <b>patient detentions </b>and the <b>denial of emergency medical care</b>. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">Most of the DFI funding to private hospitals and clinics is channelled via private equity funds based in tax havens. A growing
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: blue; line-height: 17px;"><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1396" target="_blank" id="OWA1a437ee2-6b9c-ede3-e3d1-4997cbea55d5" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="4" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">evidence</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">
base from high-income countries shows that private equity ownership of healthcare and other care companies is linked to harmful increases in cost for patients or public budgets, and negative impacts on quality and patient outcomes. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 17px;"><b>What are we calling for?</b> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 17px;">The DFIs say they are committed to advancing Universal Health Coverage but their non-transparent and unaccountable
investments in private for-profit healthcare is causing untold harm to patients, and driving up inequality, while channelling profits back to wealthy private investors and CEOs. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 17px;">Please join us in calling for this to stop; for a comprehensive and independent evaluation; and for remedy for
patients and workers who have been harmed. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;"><b>Please sign our open joint CSO statement
</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: blue; line-height: 17px;"><b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0eRdZxrxOe-zff57zbLgcozXmxoFCThKu4LIgCAecGDhAAg/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" id="OWA25665a4f-a4a6-31be-f405-defcf835eb1d" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="5" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">here</a></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;"><b>: </b> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">The statement has already received endorsement from Oxfam, WEMOS, Public Services International (PSI), Society for International Development
(SID), Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) and Human Rights Research Documentation Centre Uganda (HURIC-Uganda). We hope you will join us by adding your organisation’s name** to our open letter here: LINK </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px;"><b>What will we do with the statement?</b> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px;">We aim to make this statement public around the time of a planned high-level event on this topic in Washington DC on 6</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 18.3458px;">th</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px;">
June. We will update signatories nearer the time on plans for the launch. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px;">We’d be happy to answer any questions about the statement or discuss further. Please contact Harry Bignell at
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: blue; line-height: 18.3458px;"><a href="mailto:harry.bignell@oxfam.org" id="OWA398ef4a3-492b-d99d-55f0-fa2ed0d4511f" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="6" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">harry.bignell@oxfam.org</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px;">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px;">Thank you in advance for your support. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px;">**We are also open to individual professionals adding their name in a personal capacity, where organisational sign off is not possible. </span></p>
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<p>Anna Marriott</p>
<p>Health Policy Manager, Oxfam</p>
<p>Policy co-lead for the People’s Vaccine Alliance <a href="http://www.peoplesvaccine.org/" id="OWAca6f34a1-188a-072c-5c8f-7744ef74c8fd" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
www.peoplesvaccine.org</a></p>
<p>Based in the UK</p>
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