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public healthcare
More than a pandemic
In times of economic crisis, we have had politicians indifferent to the suffering of others, cutting on acquired rights, faithfully applying imposed recipes, trying to destroy basic public services, including health
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Global Notebooks VIII- Zagreb
3-day meeting of the People's Health Movement in Zagreb where the experiences, successes and disappointments of health systems and health coverage have been shared. Our international relations coordinator Ivan Zahinos explains it to us.
Read MoreGlobal Notebooks VII – Barcelona
Oct 31, 2019
Seventh article of opinion of the Coordinator of International Relations written from Barcelona. The patients were piled on stretchers in the emergency corridor while the professionals were not able to respond to all the needs.
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Fighting for PHC in Mozambique: is it possible to defend something one lacks?
Jan 20, 2015
A few months ago, in a conversation with Dr. Helder Martins, former Mozambican Minister of Health, he commented that Primary Health Care (PHC) does not exist in Mozambique. He argued that, contrary to what happened during the first years after independence, the health system
Read MoreTrailer for the film “A luta continua”
Apr 30, 2014
Avalaible the trailer for the film “A luta continua” (The fight goes on) with subtitles in English. Produced by medicusmundi and Kanaki Films, and directed by Raúl de la Fuente, recent winner of the 2014 Goya Award for the best short film documentary, with the AE
Read MoreFighting inequality for the defence of the right to health
Apr 07, 2014
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
Read MoreThe Struggle for Health: People’s Health Movement
In order to counteract the neoliberal stampede we are at the moment facing, We need connections, synergies, flexible, but strong networks The Troika’s rhetoric of austerity (Central European Bank + European Commission + International Monetary Fund) followed by the autonomous
Read MoreFinal stretch of the documentary on the health system in Mozambique
Feb 28, 2014
For some months now, as we informed you through this blog last November, we’ve been into the production of an audiovisual documentary on the implementation of the Primary Health Care (PHC) in Mozambique. We expect to be able to release it soon, in the framework of “Health, R
Read MoreFor 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
Read MoreActivism for the Human Right to Health: People’s Health Movement
At the beginning, back in 2008, some people thought that the Great Crisis was going to question the principles of neoliberal capitalism which had caused it. The truth is that these principles have been strengthened and, in Europe, the same “recipes” imposed on Asia, Africa a
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