Campaigns

PHC and UHC: The roadmap to achieving health for all as assessed over the response to the c-19 pandemic

The movement towards universal health coverage (UHC) is currently among the most  prominent global health policies. According to the United Nations Sustainable  Development Goals, all UN Member States agreed to work towards achieving  Universal Health Coverage by 2030. This includes financial risk protection, access to  quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and  affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.

Guatemala: Community and ancestral knowledge before Covid 19

Guatemala: Community and ancestral knowledge before Covid 19

By Hugo Icu Peren, PHM Mesoamerica

Community and ancestral knowledge in the face of Covid 19 is the name of this case study in Guatemala that gathers the lived experience of community health agents: health promoters, midwives and traditional therapists in the framework of primary health care in times of pandemic. 

Open letter to the president of Colombia demanding truth and justice in the case of a nurse who was forcibly disappeared 19 years ago

María Cristina Cobo Mahecha, a tireless fighter, a resilient woman, a nurse dedicated and committed to her work and to serving the community. Armed groups forcibly disappeared her in the midst of Colombia's internal conflict. Her mother demands justice and the truth of what happened.

The Covid-19 pandemic and the people’s struggle for health, life and dignity

During the Covid-19 pandemic, deep and extensive social impacts were felt throughout the globe, way beyond the public health crisis. The responses of governments and the international community made evident the structural inequality and injustices of the current economic and political order, with dramatic effects in the Global South.