FIRST WORLD SOCIAL FORUM ON HEALTH

FIRST WORLD SOCIAL FORUM ON HEALTH
(Reference from Maria Inês Reinart Azambuja)

Fourth International Forum in Defense of the Peoples Health
Porto Alegre – Brasil, from the 23rd to the 25ht of January 2005

Antecedents

Previously to the past three World Social Forums in Porto Alegre and Mumbai, there were organized international forums dedicated to the defense of the peoples rights to health.
The main purpose of that initiative was to call for action all the social movements around the universal right to health and health care.

In a progressive march we achieved to have in Mumbai around 700 participants from 50 countries. The Mumbai Forum reinforce the idea approved in Porto Alegre in 2003, were we decided to organize this First World Social Forum on Health with the purpose of an agenda building for action where the main goal will be the designing and building of alternative health system reforms processes oriented for the organization of national public health and social security systems....(more).....

The coordinator of this Forum is Dr. Armando De Negri Filho. He was member of the AMICOR list.