PHM: Introduction of PHM Activities

[gbenga adedayo]

Dear Onyinye and Oluwaseyi

I write to introduce the People's Health Movement (PHM)  to you.

Over the past few years PHM has grown significantly in Africa  and as some of you may know PHM has several country circles in Africa working on different issues such as National Health Insurance, Universal Health Care, Right to Health. 

Briefly PHM (www.phmovement.org) has several programs that are globally organised such as

•  The international People’s Health University – IPHU, which is a training course for young health activists across the world on the politics of health. For more information please visit: www.iphu.org
• The Right to Health Campaign – RTHC, which is an umbrella for all PHM action on country, regional and global level within the framework of the Right to Health. The campaign has been reviewed to include a comprehensive campaign which includes among other issues social determinants of health (Health For All campaign).
•  The Global Health Watch – GHW, which is an alternative publication to the WHO report and can be freely downloaded on www.ghwatch.org. If you are interested, PHM has put out a call for case studies for the Global Health watch 4 (attached). 
•  WHO watch, which is part of the Global Governance for Health program and trains young activists how to watch WHO. More details can be found on www.ghwatch.org
• People's Health Assembly organized approximately every 5 years. The 3rd assembly was held in Africa in July 2012.

PHM is registered in Nigeria under the name People's Health Initiative Nigeria (PHIN) and we are looking forward to building a strong team of passionate health activists across all sectors and we will really appreciate your involvement and participation in our struggle to achieve the singular goal of Health for All. We will like you to involve some like minds at your various institutions.

The PHM focal person in Nigeria Kemi Bello and you can reach her through her email copied above.

Please feel free to mail should you require any clarifications.

With kind regards

 

'Gbenga Adedayo