[afro-nets] People's Health Assembly - Cuenca Ecuador

[Claudio Schuftan <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

People´S Health Assembly 2
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18-23 July, 2005
Cuenca-Ecuador

The International People's Health Council
http://www.iphcglobal.org/pha2.htm

OBJECTIVES:

- To strengthen and expand the People's Health Movement as a
network that struggles for the revival of the original spirit
and principles of Health for All.

- To launch a more concerted global action to achieve a full and
universal recognition of the Right to Health as a fundamental
Human Right.

- To widen the debate leading to a more proactive resistance to
all the forces that oppose and violate the right to health of
the people.

- To share experiences and practices useful for the universali-
zation of our struggle to implement alternative models of peo-
ple-centered and beneficiary controlled health care delivery
systems.

The preliminary themes:
- Health as a fundamental human right.
- Health care reform and the right to health.
- The health of Indigenous Peoples; natural and traditional
   medicine.
- HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
- Health throughout the life cycle: children, youth, women, men,
   the elderly.
- Militarization: worldwide consequences on health and the well-
   being of the poor.
- Free trade agreements The World Trade Organization and their
   effect on the health of the people.