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Get Involved
Some suggestions on how you can get involved with
the People's Health Movement and the issues it supports.
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Read and discuss the Alma
Ata Declaration, the People's
Charter for Health, the Mumbai
Declaration and the People's Charter of HIV/AIDS
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Endorse the People's Charter for
Health.
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Sign the Million Signature Campaign demanding
Health for All Now
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Organise a convention of Primary Health Care
workers and community level PHC volunteers. Listen to their
experiences. Endorse their work.
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Organise street theatre or folk culture events
that express solidarity with the themes of the People's Health
Movement through skits, songs and other forms of cultural
expression.
For example, a suggested theme could be how Primary Health Care
needs and philosophy have been distorted by the market economy, how
people have resisted these distortions and how they have taken
health into their own hands.
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Organise a street event, a public march, a candle
light vigil, a human chain, a children's rally, a cycle rally, a walkathon, a run for health or any other event to express solidarity
with the Health for All Now campaign.
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Organise a small exhibition of Alma Ata
Declaration principles and the action points of the People's Charter
for Health.
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Write a letter from your PHM Regional Circle to the
Government (to the President, Prime Minister, Health Ministry and
other related ministries such as Rural Development, Urban
Development, Social Justice and Empowerment, Labour and Employment,
Environment and Forests) and share your concerns about Primary
Health Care and the concerns of the People's Charter for Health.
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Write articles in the newspaper or in magazines,
journals or your local newsletter on the need for Primary Health
Care, the Health for All Now Movement and other PHM themes.
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Translate the Charter and other PHM documents
into your local language and distribute them freely to the community
and local health officials. Make sure to send us a copy. You can
download existing local language editions from our Publications
page.
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Organise a discussion and public signing of the
People's Health Charter and the Million Signature Campaign in your town square or town hall or any other central point.
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Organise talks and meetings in medical colleges,
nursing colleges and other health worker training centres to sensitise the
next generation of health professionals to the Health for All Now
Campaign.
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Launch a PHM circle in your institution/ local
area/ district/ state.
Share your experiences with PHM
Send us a report, copy of invitation, programme,
poster, photograph, video grab, press release. background papers,
education materials or any other handouts about your activity so
that we can put it on the website and the
PHM Exchange
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