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Global Health Watch 3: Examining the World’s Health from an Alternative Perspective Call for Case Studies and Testimonies - Contribute to the Alternative World Health Report The Global Health Watch provides a platform for activists to share experiences and inform each other with practical examples and theoretical analyses to strengthen local, national, regional and global campaigns towards Health for All! So if any of you has an inspiring case study (+/- 2 pages) to share with the rest of the worlds health activists Contact  Anneleen  Anneleen@phmovement.org How you can voice your views The Global Health Watch is putting out a call for the submission of country or region specific case studies and testimonies. These case studies and testimonies will form part of the electronic platform of the alternative world health and selected case studies shall also be incorporated into the final document of Global Health Watch 3 – scheduled for publication in 2011. Som...

Dear Friends in Kenya,   Invitation to Kenyan Civil Society Meeting The state of health in Kenya has been characterized by high maternal and infant mortality rates, high HIV AIDS prevalence, in-effective health financing systems and growing health inequalities . Please find attached a detailed description of the Kenyan health challenges as base for discussion and common understanding to strengthen health advocacy and activism in Kenya. PHM Global, AMREF, KAPLET and HENNET with support of HAI-Africa would like to invite you to the “Mobilizing civil society for better health: Building a health advocacy movement in Kenya” ‘A meeting with civil society organizations in Kenya’ 17 th of April 2010 8 . 30h to 14h At AMREF auditorium - AMREF Head Quarter Langata Road, opposite Wilson Airport, Nairobi (Wilson is different from the main Nairobi airport – Jomo Kenyatta). The language of the meeting will be in English. In the run up to the International People’s Health University (I...

Call for Proposals The International Health Partnership and related initiatives (IHP+) Initiatives related to the International Health Partnership include : the Harmonization for Health in Africa (AHA), the Catalytic Initiative, (CI), the Providing for Health (P4H) Initiative, GAVI’S Health System Strengthening (HSS), the Global Fund-National Strategy Applications, The Health Metrics Network, (HMN) , the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA), and the MDG Africa Initiative has launched a Civil Society Health Policy Action Fund in 2010. This fund is open to support health organisations, networks and coalitions in 21 IHP countries over a one-year period. The countries are Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia. The fund aims to support southern civil society organizations, networks and coalitions to become more ...

Medical practitioners operating at Kenya's largest public hospital called Kenyatta National Hospital went on strike yesterday and paralysed all medical services within that health institution for 10 hours. They were demanding that the government of Kenya should pay them their due arrears for 11 months adding up to a total of 87 million Kenya shillings. Patients waited patiently in the hospital wards and on long queues for the strike to be called off or solved by the relevant authority. Relevant ministers were at that moment attending a constitution conference at the Kabete about 10 kilometers away from the hospital. When PHM Kenya representative arrived to the hospital, the hospital administration had already made promise to pay the nurses as soon as possible and the nurses agreed to resume back to work this morning. I will be going there at 2:00 pm to meet some officials to see if PHM could be of help to any side. More of this later..... In solidarity. Erick Otieno Owuor

Please distribute far and wide across your networks! APPLICATIONS INVITED Deadline: 7 March 2010 We have received a good number of applications. However, women represented only 1/3 of the total number. More applications especially from women and young health activists are most welcomed . The International People's Health University ( IPHU ) of the People's Health Movement ( PHM ) and The Great Lakes University of Kisumu ( GLUK ) are pleased to announce THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH a 10 day short course for health activists scheduled in Kisumu, Kenya 19-28 April, 2010 In association with The 7th TICH annual scientific conference Innovations towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (29 April – 2 May, 2010) The course will be conducted in English A limited number of scholarships for travel and accommodation will be available for qualified applicants from Sub-Saharan Africa and Kenya Further details at: http://www.phmovement.org/ iphu/en/kis...

Please distribute far and wide across your networks! The International People's Health University (IPHU) of the People's Health Movement (PHM) and The Great Lakes University of Kisumu (GLUK) are pleased to announce THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH, a 10 day short course for health activists scheduled in Kisumu, Kenya 19-28 April, 2010  In association with The 7th TICH annual scientific Conference 'Innovations towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals' (29 April – 2 May, 2010) The course will be conducted in English A limited number of scholarships for travel and accommodation will be available for qualified applicants from Sub-Saharan Africa and Kenya APPLICATIONS INVITED Application deadline: 7 March 2010 For further details go to: www.phmovement.org/iphu/en/kisumu/announce Encourage young health activists to apply now! Online application form at: http://www.phmovement.org/iphu/en/kisumu/application

Food for a mainstreet thought Human Rights Reader 233 LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE: CONNECTING THE IVORY TOWER TO MAINSTREET. (C. L. Schur) We may be intelligent, but do we have the experience? If we do, it depends whether we learn-from and apply our experience! (F. Stern) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (Santayana) 1. When really committed to human rights (HR), civil society organizations and individuals in academia have to use their (new) power with intelligence and not overvalue any theory that promotes a sense of ‘universal responsibility’ based on the false pretense that it is primarily the intelligentsia who has to bring order to a world in disarray --no matter at what cost--“or we won’t be able to live in peace with ourselves”. Such theories do not only lead to potentially infinite disconnected interventions; they intoxicate our minds with the illusion that it is we who have the leading role in the ultimate crusade in favor of what is ju...