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“Untouchable” video

With this video we want to thank our social base and collaborating entities for the support that they have provided for more than 50 years.
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Global Notebooks X: Barcelona

I have seen so many avoidable deaths, that now that countries are closing, , I cannot help to feel questioned as a human being and to ask myself what has happened now to have the world paralysed?
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Balkan notebooks II

The travel diary from the Balkans of our director of international relations, where he will visit North Macedonia and Bosnia to continue with our projects in defence of human rights and the right to health.
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The awakening of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and the WHO?

“Money alone is not the answer [… ] Strong primary health care is capable of meeting the vast majority of communities’ diverse health needs.” – PHCPI Strategy. Last September 2015, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO
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The Ebola virus disease: another wound in Africa’s health

This summer we are throwing an oblique glance at Western Africa, once more, as a result of the detection of a new outbreak of the Ebola disease. And we are looking in this direction because this virus is increasingly of concern for various reasons: first of all and fundament
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Fighting inequality for the defence of the right to health

The World Health Day is celebrated annually on April 7 to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1948. The theme for World Health Day 2014 is vector-borne diseases. Vectors are small organisms that carry disease from one infecte
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For the right of women to decide for themselves. Medicusmundi declaration on the draft law that would restrict the right to abortion

In 2011 medicusmundi approved a Declaration on Sexual and Reproductive Rights where its position and its commitment regarding the right of women to decide for themselves is stated. Just like a woman cannot be forced to undergo an abortion, she cannot be forced to become a mo
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