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Nearly 40 years ago, in Almaty (then Alma-Ata) city of present day Kazakhstan, an international conference of nearly 3000 public health experts took place in an effort to shape global public health.

It is now 30 years since the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care (PHC). But the durability of old challenges such as maternal and child deaths and emergence of new ones such as HIV and ...

In September 1978, the international community adopted the Declaration of Alma-Ata, one of the most important global agreements ever reached in the effort to achieve universal health coverage.

In the above cases, when referring to the Alma-Ata Declaration, its provisions on the right of peoples to self-determination, the renunciation of the use of force and the threat of force, economic and ...

Margaret Chan is Director-General, World Health Organization. In 1978, the Declaration of Alma-Ata at the International Conference on Primary Health Care launched primary health care as a route to ...