PHM Africa Learning Space

Dear All Please find above a link to the current climate change talks. Please send your reflections on this process and how it will have a devastating impact on health. I would like to refer you to the PHM publication, Global Health Watch 2 ( http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/862 )  which has a chapter on carbon trading and climate change. Developed countries need to commit to more resources channeled to developing countries because whilst the impact will be felt globally "People who live in poor countries(those least responsible for producing climate change) will bear a far larger burden than citizens of rich countries whose wasteful lifestyles are the major cause"(GHW, 2005).  Read more on the link and in particular on the African news    http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2022

Please find a link to the Resolutions for Action of the Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) National Conference held in Harare from 5-6 November 2009. I will also forward a PDF document. The CWGH was born in 1998, to lead and give visibility to community processes in health in Zimbabwe. Over the years, the CWGH has positioned itself as a voice in the health sector and built community power, organizing involvement of communities in the health actions within their communities and around Primary Health Care, whether their community on environmental health, or mobilizing resources to support health centres. These are being done through community level initiatives with limited external support. The CWGH will consistently engage with stakeholders and the government to make Primary Health are a more central principle, and will strengthen community structures such as health centre committees and boards and committees at district and national level to organise public efforts to achie...

AFRICA TRADE NETWORK Africa-wide Civil Society Preparatory Meeting for 7th WTO Ministerial Conference Cape Town, 1-3 October, 2009 STATEMENT OF POSITIONS AND DEMANDS The Africa Trade Network (ATN) held a meeting of African trade unions, farmers groups, faith-based groups, women’s organisations, non-governmental organisations and representatives of governments, parliaments, and social movements, in Cape Town, South Africa, from 1-3 October, 2009. Jointly hosted by the Economic Justice Network, South Africa, and the Third World Network-Africa, the meeting discussed strategy towards the 7th Ministerial Conference of the Word Trade Organisation (WTO) in November/December 2009, and came to the following understandings. 1. The neo-liberal policies implemented in our countries over the past decades and reinforced by the rules of theWTO have wreaked havoc on our economies and lives. Those policies are also responsible for the on-going global financial and economic crises that have dev...