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WHO adopts resolution on monitoring the achievement of health-related Millennium Development Goals.

In light of the upcoming UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Review Summit in September 2010, and concerned by the fact that the achievement of the MDGs lags behind and greatly varies between countries, the 63rd World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on monitoring and strengthening global commitments in order to achieve them. Key points of the resolution on monitoring the achievement of health-related MDGs the MDGs are interlinked and therefore the global partnership for (...)

Time to get real: AfGH Policy Report launched – "2010 Reality Check - Time is running out to meet the health MDGs"

On World Health Day (7 April 2010), a new report by Action for Global Health was launched simultaneously in six places across the European Union. The report "2010 Reality Check: Time is Running Out to Meet the Health Millennium Development Goals" urges European leaders to focus on concrete issues and take up actions that can break the cycle of poverty and ill health in developing countries. EPHA is a member of this Consortium. In light of the upcoming United Nations MDG Review Summit in (...)

Action for Global Health’s successful Cross-Europe Conference - Delivering the Right to Health with the Health Millennium Development Goals

"Health is a right in Europe and beyond, for all human beings, regardless of their place in the world", said new European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs in his key speech at the Action for Global Health Cross-Europe Conference in the European Parliament on 2 March 2010. The purpose of the event was to discuss what the EU can do to deliver the right to health using the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). On 2 March 2010, Action for Global Health (AFGH), of which EPHA (...)

Open Letter to Polish Government on Smoking Ban

On 1 March 2010, EPHA sent an open letter to the Chairman of the Polish Parliamentary Health Committee Bolesław Piecha. The letter was sent in reaction to the announcement by the Polish Governement of plans to include a smoking ban in all enclosed public places and workplace, to the legislation to protect public health against the consequences of tobacco use and tobacco products. The European Public Health Alliance strongly supported the initiative to broaden the scope of the Polish (...)

List Otwarty do Polskiej Sejmowej Komisji Zdrowia w Sprawie Wprowadzenia Całkowitego Zakazu Palenia Tytoniu

W dniu 1 marca 2010 roku, EPHA wysłała list otwarty do Przewodniczącego Sejmowej Komisji Zdrowia, Pana Bolesława Piechy. List wysłany został jako reakcja na ogłoszone przez Rząd Polski głosowanie w sprawie nowelizacji ustawy o ochronie zdrowia przed następstwami używania tytoniu oraz wyrobów tytoniowych, a proponującą wprowadzenie całkowitego zakazu palenia we wszystkich zamkniętych miejscach publicznych i (...)

EPHA position on the future Global Health policies of the EU

The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) submitted its response to the on-line consultation of the European Commission (EC) on Global Health at the beginning of December 2009. The response elaborates on the questions outlined in the annex to an "issues paper" on global health produced by the EC. This article presents an executive summary of EPHA submitted response. The on-line consultation of the European Commission had been open for a period of eight weeks, closing on 9 December 2009. (...)

Universal Education Foundation (UEF)

Contact Details Ms Jean GORDON C/O EIESP, Université Paris Dauphine Place du Maréchal Lattre de Tassigny F-75775 PARIS Cedex 16 FRANCE Phone +33 1 44054007 Fax ++33 1 44054007 Email Contact info@uef-learningforwellbeing.org Website http://www.uef-learningforwellbeing.org