PHM Africa Learning Space

The forum took place from the 13th to the 15 October 2011 in Lusaka, Zambia under the theme “Another Southern Africa is possible”. The forum was represented by various Southern African countries and these included Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Botswana, Swaziland, and Lesotho. The forum began with a march to the venue with the theme “walking away from poverty”. Solidarity messages from different countries followed, with slogans from different countries. There were various sessions that were hosted by various organisations highlighting the plight in Southern Africa. These included • Global Financial Crisis on SADC • Universal Education • Debt & Trade-Regional Intergration • Food Security and Land • Gender and Women Rights • Youth • HIV/AIDS and Health • Governance and Human Rights • Social Services • Indigenous peoples & Ethnic Minorities Rights • Region and peacemaking • Labour • Media Arts and Culture • Cross borders • Environment and climate

Medico supports the basic medical assistance and food distributions to its Kenyan partners in the People's Health Movement (PHM) Circle Kenya. The medico-partners are focusing their relief efforts to realize the large settlements outside refugee camps, the others already on the UN and major international aid agencies are supplied, as well as the local population in eastern Kenya is affected by the famine. Read more by clicking on link below: http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.medico.de%2Fthemen%2Fnothilfe%2Fdokumente%2Fbitte-spenden-sie-fuer-die-opfer-der-hungersnot-in-ostafrika%2F4062%2F

Read more on the link below on how "radical health campaigners rejected the official Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health, which had been carefully negotiated in advance in order not to upset sensitivities, and launched an alternative civil society Rio Declaration". http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/oct/21/who-conference-poverty-causes-ill-health