Our colleagues at the World Bank (WB) are once again calling for nutrition to be mainstreamed in development work (World Bank 2006). While I could, once again, not disagree more…
The Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Vol.45, No.4, July-Aug, 2006. ABSTRACT Food and nutrition issues get little policy attention from decision-makers. The lack of action is not due to a…
Chapter in Health For and By the People, CETIM, Gva., Jan. 2007. Claudio Schuftan MD, People’s Health Movement, Vietnam, schuftan@gmail.com Abhay Shukla, MD, People’s Health Movement, India, abhayshukla1@gmail.com -We find…
Objectives for a national action plan Specific actions under the Action Plan Abstract The Indian People’s Health Movement mobilized constituencies in several Indian states to organize public hearings on the…
Social Medicine, Vol. , No. , 2006. Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City schuftan@gmail.com We here present a historical piece way ahead of its time. It comes to us from…
The Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Vol.44, No.3, 2005. ABSTRACT Governments have failed to successfully tackle malnutrition; are NGOs supposed to be different? This is not clear; few NGOs have…
Perspectives on Global Devpt. and Technology, Vol.4, No.2, 2005. A. Meaning of the human rights discourse in health B. How to strengthen the HR-based approach in our work in health:…
Centro de Analisis e Investigacion (FUNDAR), International Budget Project (IBP), International Human Rights Internship Program (IHRIP), ISBN 0-9797799-4-9, 83 pp, 2004. www.internationalbudget.org/themes/ESC/FullReport.pdf What a jewel of a short book. Here…
SCN News, No. , Gva., 20.. 1. I have, for long, been on record to be very ambiguous about goals and targets in health and nutrition work (1). 2. What…
Narayan, R. and Schuftan, C. in K. Heggenhougen and S. Quah, Eds., International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Vol.5, San Diego Academic Press, 2008. Background The first People’s Health Assembly The…