PHM Uganda Projects

Call for Watchers to participate in the 76th World Health Assembly (May 2023 – attendance in person)

PHM is preparing to watch the 76th World Health Assembly (WHA76) of the World Health Organisation. The session will take place from 21st to 30th May in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health Assembly takes place once and the Executive Board meeting takes place twice a year. The items on the WHA76 agenda will likely include Public Health …

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Advancing the Decolonisation of Health in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities, and Collaborations

The Decolonising Health in Africa working group recently held a meeting with Vinh-Kim Nguyen, a physician and anthropologist who co-directs the Global Health Centre in Switzerland. The discussion highlighted the challenges and obstacles facing the decolonisation movement in the health sector, including the entrenched colonialism and structural racism in institutions, the prioritisation of Western knowledge …

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PHM Uganda poster with BBC on counterfeit medicines

PHM-Uganda Analysis On BBC About The Lomé Initiative, And False Medicines Epidemic In Africa: 17th January, 2020

Since Uganda was part of the Lomé Initiative to Address the False Medicines Epidemic Sweeping Across Africa. We provided our analysis on BBC about the false Medicines and Its Effects On The Right To Health In Uganda, and how The Lome Initiative will address and counter the plight of the trafficking networks of falsified medicines, …

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COPASAH Symposium 2019 , October 14-18, New Delhi

The theme of the COPGS 2019 was Leaving No One Behind: Strengthening Community Centred Health Systems for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals. The Symposium was organised between 15th and 18th October 2019 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi – India. This brought together 500 practitioners from diverse social – cultural contexts including COPASAH members from Latin America, …

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IPHU Training Workshop “Struggle for health and Access to affordable medicines” Cape Town

The International People’s Health University (IPHU) of the People’s Health Movement (PHM), jointly with PHM-South Africa and the Third World Network,  organized “THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH AND ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE MEDICINES” training, a short training course for young public health professionals including health activists in Cape Town, South Africa. The course is planned for young …

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HURIC & PHM At Medicus Mundi 2018 International Conference On The Social Determinants Of Health

We presented on People’s Health Movement-Uganda and HURIC’s growing involvement in strengthening the social determinants of Health, through; social accountability initiatives such as, Active civic engagement through civil society organizations’ involvement, and Community participation as a new global paradigm in health systems strengthening. Experiences of the People’s Health Movement and HURIC in Uganda and explore …

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PHM/MMI Statement At 72nd World Health Assembly On UHC By Michael Ssemakula From HURIC-UG

Link to the statement: “Whilst we see World Health Organization’s work on Primary Health Care as a step forward, there are still issues to address. The 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata put forward a vision of Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC), rooted in “health as a human right” and the “spirit of social justice.” Alma-ata proposed …

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