PHM Monthly Meeting 06.03.2018This meeting was held at the usual venue of Nagarodaya Centre on Danister de Silva Mawatha, Borella, Colombo 8.The meeting was composed of two parts. During the first part, Dr. Amila Chadrasiri, Open Government Partnership (OGP) Coordinator of the Ministry of Health made a presentation titled “National Health Performance Framework”. He had been invited by Sravodaya OGP Section on...
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The leadership of PHM/Ghana – represented by Kingsley Pereko, Selorme Azumah, Kennedy Antwi, John Eliasu Mahama and Sidua Hor – met with Prof. David Sanders on 17th April, 2018 during his recent trip to Accra. The Coordinator of PHM/Ghana, Kingsley Pereko updated Prof. Sanders on key activities and campaign engagements of PHM/Ghana as well as key activities planned for 2018. Much of the discussions centred on...
The Global Fund partnership is an important mechanism for transferring funds from national, multilateral, and private donors to low and middle income countries to assist in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Most of the Global Fund’s contributions come from governments, although there has long been private sector interest in engagement with the Fund for the benefits this might bring them. [1]...
COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP ON HEALTHPress Statement24 January 2018Government must show political will to address Cholera and Typhoid in ZimbabweTHE Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) is appalled by the apparent lack of political will on the part of government to address the recurrent outbreaks of cholera and typhoid that have killed scores of people and continue to cause illness to many in the country in the past...
A PHM meeting for the Middle East and North Africa region happened in Tunis this weekend. Delegates from Egypt, Palestine, Morocco, Lebanon and Jordan were hosted by PHM Tunisia back to back with a conference on the right to health that saw civil society and WHO representative discuss around what has been achieved and what needs to be done to improve health for the people. The co-chairs of the PHM global steering...
The International Association of Health Policy in Europe (IAHPE) held its 18th conference on 21-24 September in Thessaloniki (Greece).Researchers, academics and activists – many of them linked to the People's Health Movement – came from all over the world to share and exchange on the topic of “European health policies in the era of capitalist crisis and restructuring”.The conference provided a rich space to build...