Aria Ahmad || Indian Civil Society Organizations Consultations

[Sandeep Kishore]

Dear all -- 

Just wanted to introduce all to the work of Aria Ahmad (cc'ed here) a university student who was interning with MSF/Doctors Without Borders and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines in Delhi, India. He helped organize a series of high-level consultations, attracting the attention of the Ministry of Health in India and major civil society actors in India. This was for public health and non communicable diseases consultations feeding into the UN head of state meeting in september.

To me is, represents very concrete example of the role of young professionals and students in community-building and ensuring the voice of patients/students/civil society is heard at the political level. He got a couple of journalists to come as well which is key to getting the word out.

Write-up here: http://www.citizen-news.org/2011/08/let-us-work-together-to-combat-non.html

Powerpoint: 

The powerpoint he gave has some useful teaching slides; is available here: http://bit.ly/riiaED

(has good info on the need for mental health voiced from global Southern actors & access to medicines as well)

Aria, this is a collection of nodal Cornell students in haiti, tanzania, qat'ar, india and the usa -- 

Sandeep

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From: GHDonline (Sandeep Kishore) <yp-ch...@ghdonline.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:53 PM
Subject: [Young Professional Chronic Disease Working Group] YPer Aria Ahmad || Indian Civil Society Organizations Consultations
To: Kavitha Kolappa <kavitha...@gmail.com>


Sandeep Kishore added a new resource to the Young Professional Chronic Disease Working Group community.

Title: YPer Aria Ahmad || Indian Civil Society Organizations Consultations
Source: Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network - YP-CDN
Posted at: http://www.ghdonline.org/yp-chronic/resource/yper-aria-ahmad-indian-civil-society-organizations/

Resource summary:
"Dear all:

I wanted to spotlight the work of Aria Ahmad,  a YPCDN / NCD Action Network leader, and student of the University of Toronto completing work with Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) and MSF/Doctors Without Borders. He and others have organized a series of consultations by key civil society organizations (CSO) in India.

--> A meeting was organized this past Tuesday in Delhi with turnout by the additional secretary Minister of Health in India, delegates from PHFI and CCDC (including YPers Shweta and Veena), TWN, MSF, Lawyers Collective, SAMA, NISTADS, NSHSRC, PHRN, Public Health Movement, CENTAD, DNP+, Framework Convention Alliance and two health-focused publications were in attendance. The meeting was also co-sponsored by UAEM and MSF, and the YP Manifesto was distributed to all the attendees.

The outcome of this meeting will include six briefing documents (a. SDoH focus, b. scope of NCDs, c. international environment including trade, policy space, etc...d. treatment access, e. role of the private sector, and f. monitoring/targets)

--> A write-up of the meeting is available here from Citizen News:

http://www.citizen-news.org/2011/08/let-us-work-together-to-combat-non.html

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A terrific synthesis of the NCD timeline and movement from the CSO perspective: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7583984/CSO%20on%20NCDs%20Meeting%20%28Delhi%2C%2002.08.11%29/CSO%20Meeting%20on%20NCDs%20-%20Introductory%20Panel%20%28A.I.A.%29.ppt

--> Very proud Aria!!! Keep rocking it. Keen to see further reports of the meeting from attendees as well --

My best,

Sandeep"

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