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The Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel aims to establish and promote voluntary principles and practices for the ethical international recruitment of health personnel.
The code provides Member States with ethical principles for international health worker recruitment that strengthen the health systems of developing countries. It discourages states from actively recruiting health personnel from developing countries that face critical shortages of health workers, and encourages them to facilitate the "circular migration of health personnel" to maximize skills and knowledge sharing. It also enshrines equal rights of both migrant and non-migrant health workers.
Member States are to provide WHO with data on health worker migration in two years, and thereafter provide updates every three years.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2010/wha63/journal4/en/index.html

International Womens Day 2010

From Debora Patta in SA: I am sick and tired of people using culture to defend practices which quite frankly are outdated, sexist and degrade women. Polygamy may be legal in South Africa but that doesn't make it right. Culture is not static - hopefully as we progress as a nation, we evolve. We know for example that apartheid was built on patriarchy and racism. We know that the homeland system was evil even though some black people were complicit in defending it. And likewise we should know that polygamy is a system where men rule supreme and have power over the women they collect. Just because it is an age old cultural practice, doesn't make it a good cultural practice. President Jacob Zuma's defense of polygamy was shattered after revelations that he fathered a love-child with the daughter of another close friend. It's not an ancient cultural practice that he is upholding, but rather his right to bed as many women as he pleases regardless of the consequences.

AIDS activists in Zimbabwe have launched a major drive to ensure that the rights of people living with HIV are enshrined in the new constitution. 

The Global Political Agreement signed in September 2008 between Zimbabwe's various political rivals, which gave rise to the coalition government in February 2009, includes writing the new constitution expected to be introduced in 2010. 

"We are not calling for a token participation, but significant and meaningful involvement that will go a long way in promoting our welfare and rights when the constitution is adopted," Tonderai Chiduku, advocacy coordinator of Zimbabwe National Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS (ZNPP+), told IRIN/PlusNews.

KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks. The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was “the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda” — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family.

This is good programme. it s new for me to learn I can rite my right. But number one step it is true that I must think more on about what means rights. what means responsibilty. I hear these phrase but do not think what connect here in my day to day problem with illness. Today i wuz stand in hot sun waiting for tablets an so I did start think on the words respect or dignity. The governmnt needs to think also. I start now.
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Also I think childs should have right just for childs. They must take treatment, it is so hard, and tabs made for adults not child. what others think over this?

Sasa Molnar, Mozambique