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Vineeta Gupta protests at the offices of Novartis in Washington, DC
January 29, 2007. Vineeta works with SHAII (Stop HIV/AIDS in India) and
is affiliated with PHM-USA.
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People's Health Movement (PHM)
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.
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