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Community Health Committees as a vehicle for participation in advancing the right to health. Community participation has been considered one of several key ingredients required to improve community health yet, studies from Southern Africa underscore serious shortcomings in the implementation of meaningful community participation. This paper explores the role of Health Committees as a vehicle for participation in advancing the health rights of communities. Read the article in the link below: http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/3116 ****** Critical Health Perspectives - Call for Papers. ----------------------------- CHP is a publication of the People's Health Movement, South Africa (South Africa). It is produced with the aim of offering an alternative, "peoples health" perspective and stimulating debate on critical issues related to health and health care in South Africa and elsewhere. CHP is distributed electron...

As a follow up to the article on the power of sms in Mozambique protests, the Mozambican government has suspended SMSes. Read the article by following the link below: http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-09-11-mozambique-govt-suspends-smses

Dear friends, Millions of women and children can be saved from death in pregnancy or childbirth, if world leaders, who are about to meet in New York, meet their promises and step up their aid commitments for maternal health. Let's call on them to act now! Sign the petition! Millions of pregnant women and children die every year because of malnutrition or inadequate health services. It's shocking, but if our governments meet aid promises to women and children at the poverty summit later this month, it is avoidable. Ten years ago world leaders committed to drastically reduce the disgraceful number of maternal deaths by 2015, but in fact aid levels remain shamefully low. Now, some governments could be prepared to boost aid for mothers and babies, but they need massive public support to get all governments to step up. In days our leaders meet in New York. Let's build a global outcry against needless deaths. Sign the petition below to double aid for maternal and child ...

Read the article on the link below: http://www.africareview.com/News/mobile%20phones%20in%20Africa/-/825442/1005298/-/view/printVersion/-/ixc44s/-/index.html

Dear PHM Friends Right to Health Pamphlets have been posted online and can be downloaded on the link below. We received the link from Learning Network who have managed to put them in a web-friendly version.You can find them at: http://www.hhr.uct.ac.za/about/about.php PHM South Africa has used the pamphlets in its right to health campaign and these may be useful for some countries as they embark on the different campaigns and initiatives around the Right to Health.