Slide show of pictures taken by Dominique David in Maela camp in Thailand

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Presentation to the European Union of the campaign: “Health agents in the South: a deadly shortage”

On the occasion of the World Health Day (April 7, 2006), devoted by the WHO to health workforce crisis, Médecins du Monde, Agir Ici, Aide Médicale Internationale and Secours Catholique have launched the campaign : “Health agents in the South: a deadly shortage”

• Dr Chantal Aubert-Fourmy, AMI’s president, representing the French campaign
• Dr Denis Mukwegue, Congolese surgeon (DRC)
• Marco Borsboom, trade union Abvakabo FNV, affiliated to Public Services International (PSI) in Netherlands, representing the PSI’s campaign on ethical recruitment of health agents.

The representatives above have presented the campaign to the European Union, Wednesday May 31 in Brussels. This presentation obtained a great success.

Today, hundreds of million people still have no access to most essential cares. Thus nearly 200 000 children in the world die every week from diseases which could have been treated or avoided. This extremely urgent situation results from the deep deliquescence of many public health systems.

The shortage of health agents is one of the main causes of health systems’ inefficiency and States’ incapacity to guarantee the right of health for all. In Africa, 63% of women are not assisted by qualified agents during their delivery. More than four million additional doctors, nurses, midwives, managers and public health workers are urgently needed to ensure an access to basic cares. 1 million of health agents are needed for only sub-Saharan countries.

How to mobilize oneself?

You can send a postcard, available in Agir Ici website, to the French Foreign Minister.

Citizens are also invited to relay the campaign’s objectives:

• To triple, from next year, the public development aids devoted to the health sector
• To increase the aid intended to support national policies of human resources reinforcement (a support to increase workforce productivity, better working conditions for health workers, improved safety…).
• To be opposed, within the international financial institutions, with any measurement leading to the freezing of recruitment and/or wages of health agents in the countries confronted with a shortage of human resources.

A booklet about health agents’ shortage in developing countries is available in this website.

For more information on campaign: http://www.agirici.org

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How we have used your gifts for Tsunami

AMI thanks the Trade union of the Stockbreeders of horses of blood of France and the JC DECAUX group for having accepted the reassignment of their donation for the Tsumani.

Following the Tsumani, AMI profited from a dash of generosity without precedent and collected 280 000 euros. 80 000 euros from private donators 50% of this amount has already been spent on ground in Indonesia and Sri-Lanka and the remaining 50% will be spent on these on the ground missions from now to the ending of 2005. These 80 000 euros will be completely spent for our beneficiaries from Indonesia and Sri-Lanka. 200 000 euros from companies (patronage) AMI did not need to spend this money on its grounds because the financial backers Fondation de France and ECHO (European Community Humanitarian Office) have implied themselves in very consequent and rapid manner. They have taken the relai on private donators and now finance the integrality of our activities. AMI has asked these patronage companies (JC DECAUX group and the Trade union of the Stockbreeders of horses of blood of France) to reassign their donation to missions or activities less covered by the backers ( Sudan, RDC, Haiti…). They have accepted the reassignment.

We made share of this use at the Court of Audition in 2004 and 2005. In both countries hit by the catastrophe of December 26th, we set up training programs in post-dramatic psychology. For more details on these missions, please consult the heading "Missions"

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