On the sidelines of the People’s Health Assembly 4, Bangladesh, Goerge Poe, a trade unionist and health activist from Liberia speaks to Peoples Dispatch on the role of health workers and trade unions in the global struggle towards health for all. Poe also talks about the need for a holistic concept of access to health, beyond the present model of selective healthcare intervention decided by donor organizations.
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Categories Bangladesh | World
The struggle for health is the struggle for a more caring world: Dr Am …
At the plenary session of the fourth People’s Health Assembly (16-19 November), Dr. Amit Sengupta of the People’s Health Movement spoke about struggles by health activists across the globe in the fight for ‘health for all’. Amid the global health and economic crisis perpetrated by a neoliberal economic model, Dr. Amit – in the words of Bertolt Brecht – reminds us that in the dark times, there will be singing, about the dark times.
On November 28, 2018, Dr. Amit passed away in a swimming accident in Goa, India. Dr. Amit Sengupta had worked for more than 30 years with various social movements fighting for science, rationality and universal access to healthcare around the world. His demise is an inconsolable loss for those who stand for a just and egalitarian world.
Categories Europe | World
PHA4: Austerity measures are the biggest impediment to access to healt …
On the sidelines of the fourth People’s Health Assembly (16- 19 November 2018) in Bangladesh, activists from Europe speak about the issues related to health in the region. The activists condemned the wave of austerity measures in the European region, which has become a major obstacle in the goal towards health for all.
Categories Bangladesh | World
What do violent conflicts have to do with health? Everything, says Peo …
The struggle to ensure health for all is synonymous with the struggle for a new society
Categories Bangladesh | World
PHA4: Health assembly calls for people’s lives above profit
The Fourth People’s Health Assembly, which concluded on 19 November in Bangladesh demanded health for all, now. Apart from the issue of neoliberal economic structures that hinder access to healthcare, it emphasized the need for revitalization of primary healthcare for achieving universal health care.
Categories Israel | Palestine
PHA4: Military occupation is the foremost reason for health crisis in …
At the sidelines of the fourth People’s Health Assembly in Bangladesh, Shatha Odeh from the Health Work Committees (Palestine) speaks about the military occupation and its impact of health structures in Palestine. Recent reports warn that Gaza is facing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis because of the Israeli blockade of the coastal city.
Categories Bangladesh | World
PHA4: Neoliberal Policies and corporate takeover are the cause of the …
MNCs are suing countries for using generic versions of life saving medicines.
Categories Bangladesh | World
“Health for All Now!” – Fourth People’s Health Assembly begins …
Wealth and income inequalities have to be reduced and corporate power challenged to achieve health for all, say participants at the fourth People’s Health Assembly.
Categories Bangladesh | World
All the power to the people: Fourth global health assembly
As more than 1200 people from across the globe participate in the fourth people’s health assembly in Savar, Bangladesh, the venue reverberates with the call – health for all, now! The health assembly is being organized in the background of a global health crisis marked by inequalities related to a range of social determinants of health and in access to health services within countries and between countries.
Categories Bangladesh | World
Fourth People’s Health Assembly to begin on 16 November in Savar, Ba …
More than 1200 participants delegates from about 60 countries are expected to participate.
Categories World
Neoliberalism and the global struggle for access to health
Ahead of the People’s Health Assembly 4 to be held in Savar, Bangladesh on 16 November, David Legge from the People’s Health Movement speaks about the neoliberal regime pushed forward by trans-national capitalism and its impact on the access to health for all.
