This month, health leaders from United Nations member states convene in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana to reconfirm the world’s commitment to comprehensive primary health care as the keystone of ...

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 ...

What of the declaration from 1978 promising "Health for All"? Thirty years have gone by since the “Alma-Ata Declaration” – adopted on September 12, 1978 at the end of an international conference on ...

In Correspondence published early Online on thelancet.com Margaret Chan, director-general of WHO, receives the unequivocal support of her six regional directors for her quest to revitalise the vision ...

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Join our Whatsapp channel SINCE the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978, there has been much rhetoric from the World Health Organisation (WHO) about primary healthcare, but little organised and specific ...

Nagorno-Karabakh has not been recognized as a state either by the international community or even by Armenia. By the way, Armenia has also accepted, recognized that Nagorno-Karabakh has been part of ...

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.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 18. Armenia accepted that borders between the two countries should be resolved on the basis of the Alma-Ata Declaration, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev ...