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.).
The Declaration is particularly significant to the People's Health Movement because the People's Charter for Health which evolved at the first People's Health Assembly at Gonoshasthya Kendra (GK) ' Savar in Bangladesh on 8th December 2000, endorsed the principles and practi