Dear Editor, IMCI, the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness programme is slowly gaining some recognition in our everyday parlance. We applaud IMCI’s positive aspects, i.e. its attempt to integrate care…
Eduardo Galeano The new millennium is just around the corner. Nothing to take too seriously: After all, the year 2001 of the Christians is the year 1379 of the Muslims,…
VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY THE CHILEAN WRITER ISABEL ALLENDE. Inspired, extracted (plagiarized) and paraphrased from her novel “The Daughter of Fortune”, Plaza y Janes Editores SA, Barcelona, 1999, pp…
THE LUGANO REPORT: ON PRESERVING CAPITALISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, with and Appendix and Afterword by Susan George, Pluto Press, London, Sterling (Virginia), 1999. Paperback, 213 pp. The powers that…
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Claudio Schuftan schuftan@gmail.com The vast majority of humanity just has the right to see, to hear… and to remain silent. (Eduardo Galeano) A touch of history 1. The newly emerging…
Unfinished draft CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com Giving graduate students of nutrition a chance to practice activism skills vis a vis the problems which we are training them to resolve is a…
Globalization and its negative consequences A dearth of workable solutions? The Equity/Equality approach The Human Rights approach Bolder steps are needed Three caveats In closing References CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com What…
Poverty, equity and social justice Equity and health for all Equity, structural adjustment and safety nets for the poor Who are the poor and how do we find them? Equity…
CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com After reading an exceptionally long list of emails I received the other night I fell into a pessimistic streak. I was thinking how the road to heaven…