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 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 ...

Forty years ago, in the heart of Soviet Central Asia, the world made a groundbreaking commitment to health. The Alma Ata Declaration set the stage for global health as we know it today. It reaffirmed ...

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 ...

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.