International Association of Health Policy

2 years ago your Editorial staff and International Advisory Board took the courageous and correct step to criticise the practices of your parent company, Reed Elsevier, in the hosting of arms trade fairs.(1)

The arms trade industry as it stands has little good to say for itself. It encourages transgressions of the various Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war, wastes public money, catalyses confl ict and war, institutionalises corruption, glorifi es violence, sustains oppressive and genocidal regimes, and excuses the conduct of torture.

URGENT PRESS RELEASE

Hyderabad (India), Savar (Bangladesh), Managua (Nicaragua), 5th January 2003:

PEOPLE'S HEALTH MOVEMENT and INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE'S HEALTH COUNCIL launches:

The Million Signature Campaign:

A march on the Internet demanding HEALTH FOR ALL NOW!

People's Movement stops government privatisation programme in Paraguay

Eye witness report from Paraguay Paraguay, one of the smallest and poorest countries in South America, and for many decades ruled by a murderous dictatorship that fiercely repressed any form of political opposition, is today a country in the throes of a popular revolution. For the first time anywhere in the world, a popular struggle, not linked to any political party, has forced a government to put a complete stop to its privatisation programme!

People’s Health Movement calls for
Immediate Cessation of Israeli Offensive in Palestine and Lebanon and for UN Intervention

Geneva: 15th May, 2002

People's Health Assembly
PHA Secretariat, Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Nayarhat, Dhaka ' 1344, Bangladesh
PHA website
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Global campaign to be launched: Revive the vision of Alma Ata!

This collection of statements, reflections and papers is released for use by People's Health Movement members, friends and enthusiasts all over the world to initiate a celebration for the Alma Ata Declaration anniversary particularly around 6-12th September 2003. (These are the actual dates of the meeting in 1978 when the Alma Ata Declaration was passed in an International Conference on Primary Health Care organized by World Health Organization and UNICEF and other organizations and ratified by the majority of the countries of the world.).

A new Director General for the World Health Organisation - an opportunity for bold and inspirational leadership

published in The Lancet
1. Introduction
The sudden and sad death of Dr Lee Jong-wook, the former Director-General (DG) of the World Health Organisation (WHO), has already prompted several articles in this journal about WHO. , , But further discussion is needed over the next two months in the run up to the election of a new DG.