Research & Advocacy Externals
Global Health Watch
At the World Health Assembly in May 2003, the People's Health Movement, together with GEGA and Medact discussed the need for civil society to produce its own alternative World Health Report.
The idea of an alternative World Health Report since developed into an initiative called the 'Global Health Watch', the first of which was launched on July 20, 2005. The second Global Health Watch is expected to be launched in August 2008.
HIFA2015
Health Information For All by 2015 (HIFA2015) is a campaign which calls on international, national and local organisations to work together towards a future where every person worldwide has access to an informed healthcare provider. Medsin is a supporting organisation of this campaign and sits on the HIFA2015 working group.
To join the HIFA2015 email forum and get involved in the campaign - send your name, organisation and brief description of professional interests to: hifa2015-admin@dgroups.org.
InterAction
InterAction is a network of human rights and welfare campaigning organisations that are primarily student led. Most of InterAction's work is carried out online via email, but we also meet about 4 times a year to discuss our activities and propose future collaboration where appropriate. Other members of InterAction include People & Planet, STAR and Amnesty.
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
IPPNW is a non-partisan international federation of health workers' organizations dedicated to research, education and advocacy relevant to the prevention of nuclear and all wars, to promoting non-violent conflict resolution and to reducing the effects of war on health, development and the environment.
Oxfam
Oxfam International is a confederation of 13 organizations working with over 3000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. Medsin is a campaigning partner of Oxfam GB on their access to essential services campaign, 'In the Public Interest'.
Student Stop AIDS Campaign (SSAC)
The Student Stop AIDS Campaign was launched in 2003, as a movement of young people who wanted to demand universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care. The campaign movement is a coalition of student-led societies across Universities in the UK affiliated with the national Stop AIDS Campaign and coordinated nationally by SPW. Medsin is also an organisational member of this coalition.
Student Partnership Worldwide (SPW)
Student Partnership Worldwide empowers the next generation to act as catalysts for change in their own communities. Medsin works with SPW through the Students Stop AIDS Campaign.
Last updated on Thursday 21 February 2008 at 19:00.
