About Us

About Healthy Documents

The year 2000 is now behind us. And as we look back, what do we see? The path traversed since Alma Ata is littered with several more international meetings on health and declarations and resolutions (which have even been ratified by governments); but the target of Health for All is far from being achieved.

Not much seems to have changed for the people, especially for the poor people in the developing countries. The situation  is getting worse with many countries channeling more funds into their defence budgets at the cost of other priorities, such as, health and social welfare. An increasing number of countries are meanwhile privatising their health services, pushing these services beyond the reach of the common people.
 
Healthy Documents is a compilation of resolutions, declarations and charters on health made at international meetings and also related UN instruments, such as international covenants, treaties, programmes and platforms of action which support these declarations and which are ratified by various governments. The declarations and UN instruments are in the areas of medical ethics, health rights, public health, health and social development, nutrition, children's health and women's health. It also showcases two organisations' advocacy work as an inspiring example of implementing a UN instrument and in realizing an international declaration. This publication is a source of useful information and an important action tool for advocacy to promote people's health.
 
About The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)
 
The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) is a global network of individuals and organisations concerned with the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding based on the Innocenti Declaration, the Ten Links for Nurturing the Future and the WHO/UNICEF Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding. Its core partners are International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), La Leche League International (LLLI), International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA), Wellstart International, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) and LINKAGES. WABA is in consultative status with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).
 
 
More information About Us and Healthy Documents

Site Map 

  SEARCH, FIND, LOOK UP, ACCESS, information
  REQUEST a document by email - as a text or html file
  DISTRIBUTE, VIEW or PRINT Healthy Documents in the original book format 

All Healthy Documents are available in their entirety in the Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file format and is a true representation of the hard copy.
The Adobe Acrobat format requires the FREE Adobe Reader.



Download and installation instructions are on the Adobe website.

All Healthy Documents are available in four formats: 

HTML - PDF - text and html by email 

HTML - Use any browser - View Now! 

PDF -   - View Now! 
 
PDF files are compact and cross-platform and retain the formatting, colors, fonts, and images exactly as the original book format of Healthy Documents. They can be distributed, viewed or printed.

PDF files are also full-text indexed so that searching for information is simplified.

You will need Adobe's free Acrobat Reader with Search program. 

 

text file by email 
You will receive the requested Web document in the body of the e-mail, with a list of all the documents referenced within, so that you may make further requests.