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Author Archives: Kabir Sheikh

Kabir Sheikh is chairman of Health Systems Global, a policy adviser at the Alliance for Health Policy & Systems Research, and former Joint director for research and policy at the Public Health Foundation of India.

Cancer patients rest on beds at Dr Bhubaneswar Borooah Cancer Institute and research centre in Guwahati in Assam. Photo: AFP
Posted inAT Finance, Thailand, World

Declaration of Alma-Ata: ‘health for all’ 40 years on

by Kabir Sheikh October 4, 2018

Forty years ago last month, thousands of delegates from 134 countries gathered in Kazakhstan, then part of the Soviet Union, to adopt the Declaration of Alma-Ata. This landmark agreement committed the world to expanding health access, and the principles it enshrined in a mere three pages continue to have a profound effect on the field […]

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