The goal of the People's Health Movement is to re-establish health and equitable development as top priorities in local, national and international policy-making, with comprehensive primary health care as the strategy to achieve these priorities.

The People's Health Movement aims to draw on and support people's movements in their struggles to build long-term and sustainable solutions to health problems.

The People's Health Movement is organized in regional and country circles.

People's Health Movement - USA Circle

The PHM-USA Circle is currently the smallest, and we are beginning to organize various outreach activities as a way to build awareness of and support for the People's Health Movement. While we believe it is essential to develop a strategy to achieve primary health care in the U.S., we think this cannot be done in an isolated way without broader participation. In the short term, then, we think it imperative to build the organization and take advantage of our location in the United States to carry out activities focused on support for the international movement.

Our current activities include:

• Building awareness among U.S. and Canadian based groups and networks who oppose the ways in which corporate-led globalization is worsening people's health and how the initiatives of the People's Health Movement offer alternative visions of health and development.
  
  
• Reaching out to health professionals interested in health and human rights.
  
  
• Reaching out to people organizing around universal health care in the U.S.
  
  
• Educating and inspiring students within the healthcare field about the possibilities of improving people's health worldwide within the context of a profit-driven health care system.
  
  
• Putting primary health care back at the top of the agenda for people involved with international health and development.
  
  
• Building a Peoples Health Movement-USA web site and listserver as a means of sharing information and engaging in debate and discussion.
  
  
• Organizing educational and media events in North America for visiting international representatives of the Peoples Health Movement.

Hesperian Foundation Sarah Shannon/Tawnia Queen phm@hesperian.org

Doctors for Global Health Steve Miller/Lanny Smith dghinfo@dghonline.org