MMI Network: Supported civil society positions and platforms

The MMI Network supports civil society networks and platforms as well as joint advocacy campaigns related to key topics and issues of our work. Co-signing a campaign or a joint advocacy statement as “Medicus Mundi international Network” requires consultation of the Board by the Network member or institutions who promotes it. Co-signing a campaign or a joint advocacy statement as “Medicus Mundi international Network” does not mean that this reflects the position of all Network members. Positions supported by MMI in the last years include:

2017

  • Open letter to WHO DG candidates: “Keep policy and priority setting free of commercial influence” published in: The Lancet
    http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2817%2931146-7/fulltext
  • Civil society statement “The WHO we want and the leadership WHO needs” as a contribution to the dialogue on the election of new WHO Director General
    http://g2h2.org/posts/nextdg/
  • Open letter to the members of the 140th Executive Board of the WHO: Address the recommendations included in the report of the United Nations
    Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines (UNHLP).
    Document: PDF
  • Open letter to the members of the 140th Executive Board of the WHO: “Conflict of interest safeguards far too weak to protect WHO from influence of
    regulated industries (the case of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)”
    Document: PDF

2016

  • Civil Society Statement on the World Health Organization’s proposed Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors (FENSA). 69th World Health Assembly, May 2016
    http://www.babymilkaction.org
  • Urgent call from 260 organisations to UN Statistical Division to “revoke weak and harmful indicator 3.8.2 to measure Universal Health Coverage (UHC)”
    http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/10290
  • Open letter to the members of the 138th Executive Board of the World Health Organization: “Civil Society has no confidence in the stalled Framework for Engagement with Non State Actors process”
    http://bit.ly/1NvkZQ7

2015

  • World Health Assembly, 23 May 2015: Joint civil society statement: Defend the World Health Organization from corporate takeover
    http://www.medicusmundi.org

2014

  • Universal Health Coverage Day, 12 December
    www.universalhealthcoverageday.org/en/
  • A health worker for everyone, everywhere! Call to Action for European decision-makers, towards strong health workforces and sustainable health systems around the world
    https://interact.healthworkers4all.eu
  • Global Health Pledge for candidates to the 2014 European Parliament elections www.healthpledge.eu

2013

  • No Progress towards Universal Health without Health Workers. Civil Society
    commitment statement at 3rd Global Forum on Human Resources for Health
    www.healthworkers4all.eu
  • Health strengthening requires continuous investment in quality health services and health workforce”. Joint statement at a WHO high-level meeting in Tallinn
    http://www.epha.org/a/5838

2012

• World Bank must advance universal health coverage. Civil society letter to World Bank president
www.oxfam.org – text of letter
• Call for global leadership: Incentive systems for research and innovation which addresses needs of LMICs. COHRED call to action to the member states attending the open-ended meeting to discuss the CEWG report recommendations
www.cohred.org/cewgcall
• A promise renewed. Civil society pledge for reaffirmed committment to child survival signed by the MMI Network
http://apr.nationbuilder.com/cso_pledge
• People’s Charter for health – the “constitution” of the People’s Health Movement
www.phmovement.org

2011

  • Civil Society call for action on universal health coverage
    www.actionforglobalhealth.eu/index.php?id=303
  • Protecting the Right to Health through action on the Social Determinants of Health
    A Declaration by Public Interest Civil Society Organisations and Social Movements
    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (MMI representatives as part of the editing team)
    www.medicusmundi.org
  • Noncommunicable Diseases: Statement of concern on lack of clarity on role of industry in UN High Level Meeting, signed by over 100 NGOs including the MMI Network and delivered to the President of the UN General Assembly on 22 June 2011
    info.babymilkaction.org/node/458
  • Delhi Statement: Time to untie the knots – The WHO reform and the need for democratizing global health. The Medicus Mundi International Network participated in the Delhi consultation and endorsed the so-called “Delhi Statement” on the WHO reform and the need for democratizing global health.
    MMI ePlatform

2010

  • NGO Code of Conduct for Health Systems Strengthening
    The purpose of the Code is to offer guidance on how international NGOs can work in host countries in a way that respects and supports the primacy of the government’s responsibility for organizing health system delivery. The Code has become a key reference for the MMI Network
    http://ngocodeofconduct.org/

MMI statements at the World Health Organization’s Governing Body meetings (World Health Assembly and Executive Board) can be found in the People’s Health Movement’s “WHO Tracker”. Over the last years, such MMI statements on various topics have been made as joint statements of MMI and the People’s Health Movement, at times including other civil society partners.