The People’s Health Movement (PHM) was founded in December 2000 in Savar, Bangladesh. 1600 people from 93 countries came together at the premises of medico’s partner Gonoshasthaya Kendra: activists, professionals and academics who in their various activities are committed to the concept of primary health care (PHC).
medico came across many old partners at the PHM, from Central America, South Africa, India and Palestine – and found new partners: for example in Egypt, where a team of doctors and nurses connected to the PHM provided assistance to those wounded on Tahrir Square.
Their joint activities range from projects in the field to demonstrations and lobbying against the neoliberal erosion of healthcare systems, the exclusion of minorities and refugees, punitive drug patents, protectionism and world market prices and strives for a comprehensive democratisation of the World Health Organisation.