Assembly meets to tackle health needs of the poor

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7509.128-d

BMJ 2005;331:128 (16 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7509.128-d

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Assembly meets to tackle health needs of the poor

London Tessa Richards

More than a thousand members of the People�s Health Movement from about 90 mostly poor countries will meet at the People�s Health Assembly in Cuenca, Ecuador, next week. The movement (www.phmovement.org) is a global advocacy network of people�s organisations, civil society groups, non-governmental organisations, women�s groups, social activists, academics, health professionals, and policy makers. This will be the second time that they have come together in a meeting, aimed at giving a voice to the poor.

The first People�s Health Assembly, was held in Savar in Bangladesh in 2000, and attracted almost 1500 health activists. It was convened by Zafrullah Chowdhury and his colleagues to discuss the failure to achieve the goal of health for all by the year 2000 (BMJ 2004;329:1127). This was the ambitious target that health ministers from 134 countries signed up to at the Alma-Ata conference in Kazakhstan in 1978.

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