Newsletter 150
Content
Action of the Week
- Fax President Mbeki
National News and Events
- ukAM2007 in Canterbury - a success!
- ICAN Workshop @ Medact
- Medsin AGA News!
- Medsin National Conference 2007 - Population and Health
- Discuss nuclear weapons with the MoD and FCO!
- Advance notice of Marrow AGM
- The Lancet Student
- Financing and Action for Global Health conference
International News and Events
- Improving the health of mothers and babies: breaking through health system constraints
Website and News
The website is for YOUR events being held by YOUR branches, projects and campaigns. It is really, really easy to submit events and news, so please do, and let everyone know what wonderful things you are up to!
Action of the Week
Thabo Mbeki's stance on Aids has left South Africa with the world's worst HIV epidemic. Join the International protest by sending a fax to President Mbeki. Let's make sure that President Mbeki knows that people from all around the world think it's time to end denialism and delays in South Africa. For more information Click here
National News and Events
ukAM2007 in Canterbury - a success!
So there it was UkAM 2007 over in a flurry of blue tee-shirts, dazzling english sunshine, fantastic internationals, phenomenal socials and maybe one too many fire drills! For those of you who missed out, at the core of Ukam 2007 was our theme "Access to Essential Medicines" and because we want to share the ukam love as far as we possibly can we'll be putting up all the speeches and presentations on the theme over the next few weeks.
Speeches from the likes of; WHO, WMA, MSF, Richard Horton, Richard Smith and much more
Yep, that means you can enjoy all that UKAM goodness from your very own sofa (or desk if you're one of those more serious medic types) So stay tuned , keep excited, get involved in Medsin!
Paddy, Tech head Ukam 2007
ICAN Workshop @ Medact
Nows your chance to hear more about ICAN and get involved in it's development into one of the most successful campaigns Medsin/Medact has seen.
Longtime anti-nuclear campaigner Gill Reeve and others at Medact will be holding a workshop to get ICAN off the ground in the UK.
The workshop will be held in the meeting room at the Grayston Centre, 28 Charles Square, London N1 (nearest tube Old Street, map available on request).
If you would like to come, send Gill Reeve a quick email as Medact is providing lunch.
Medsin AGA News
Medsin's Autumn General Assembly 2007 will be held at Boldrewood Campus in sunny Southampton on 22nd and 23rd September.
As always the weekend will include:
- updates on different aspects of the network
- outlining plans for 2007/08
- much discussion through mini meetings & debate
- voting session
- training .....as well as a few surprises!
This will be an AGA like no other.....we've taken into consideration the feedback from the SGA and promise to bring you more thrills.
Registration fee: £10 for 2 lunches, breakfast, tea/coffee biscuits and refreshments, accommodation.
Medsin National Conference 2007 - Population and Health
Cheap train tickets up to Dundee for the Medsin National Conference are now on sale. Check out www.nationalrail.co.uk for times. 26th-28th October!!! A weekend not to miss.
Discuss nuclear weapons with the MoD and FCO!
You have the opportunity to discuss nuclear weapons with Ministry of Defence and Foreign Commonwealth officials! This follows similar discussions betweens MEDACT UK and IPPNW Russia with MOD and FCO officials a couple of months ago. They are very keen to hear students views as this is their opportunity to hear our perspective on the issues.
This will take place on the 2nd October before the RSM and IPPNW conference Nuclear Weapons: The Final Pandemic Preventing Proliferation and Achieving Abolition.
If interested please get in touch with Kiran.
Advance notice of Marrow AGM
Just a reminder that the AGM which is scheduled for 24-25th November this year. It will be held in Exeter, please could you let us know how many people from your group will be attending, whether you will be arriving on the Friday night of the Saturday morning and whether any of your group have special dietary requirements.
Please get back to us a.s.a.p. so we have an idea of numbers.
The Lancet Student
"I am Rhona MacDonald, an editor at The Lancet and I'm also absolutely delighted to be running TheLancetStudent.com. The Lancet has wanted to do something for medical students for a long time especially as many of you have already told us that you would like us to do something more geared towards your interests and needs. So TheLancetStudent.com is it. It is a beta, ie. a pilot or experimental site, so we can try out new things and see what works and what doesn't maybe work so well-and we are relying on you to let us know your thoughts and views. So let me tell you more about TheLancetStudent.com.
Basically, we want TheLancetStudent.com to most focus on global health issues for a number of reasons: 1) Global health is SO important especially as we are all supposed to be citizens of the global village now. We should know about the issues, conditions, and diseases that affect all of the world's population. 2) The Lancet (our parent!) is the champion of global health issues, and so it makes sense that TheLancetStudent.com focuses on this too 3) You have told us (in your 100s at the conferences and events we have attended) that you want more on global health. In many countries, global health plays only a very small part in the curriculum so TheLancetStudent.com aims to help fill that gap.
At the moment, you can write articles for us, submit your elective reports, use our global health resources (which we are still building so please send us your suggestions), vote in our polls and read a weekly summary of what's in The Lancet every week (The Lancet Digest). And of course you can share your thoughts and views by posting your comments to our blog .
As I think many of you will be very keen to write for TheLancetStudent.com (I used to be the senior editor of the StudentBMJ so I know that medical students love to write), let me explain a bit more about the writing process. TheLancetstudent.com wants to tap into your enthusiasm and get you writing about global health issues. This is a very broad area so it is best to run your ideas by us first so you can best focus your article and so that you don't waste any time and energy. Initially, all submissions will be reviewed by me and some other editors at The Lancet but we very much hope that YOU will want to be more involved in TheLancetStudent.com by reviewing submissions as well as writing and submitting them.
TheLancetStudent is very keen to work more closely with Medsin and we hope to be able to tell you more about that in a while
many thanks and I hope to hear from you soon
best wishes
Rhona MacDonald
Click here to contact Rhona
Click here to go to the Lancet Student page.
Financing and Action for Global Health conference
13-14th September, London
The conference aims to catalyse action on global health. It will address key issues in health systems strengthening in developing countries such as ensuring human resources for health, gender and health and research and development for new tools and technologies; providing an opportunity to hear the latest in policy, practise and research from both international and developing country perspective.
For more information click here
International News and Events
Improving the health of mothers and babies: breaking through health system constraints
Improving maternal health remains the most elusive of the Millennium Development Goals. Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy-related causes: 99 percent of these are in developing countries. The majority of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, and are avoidable through using standard interventions and health care which all pregnant women and their newborn babies need.
For more information click here
Last updated on Tuesday 21 August 2007 at 00:21.
