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Former WHO Director Halfdan Mahler on Alma Ata, May 2008

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Halfdan Mahler was the Director-General of the World Health Organization from 1973-1988. During this period WHO co-sponsored the 1978 Alma Ata conference where the bold goal of “Health for All by the Year 2000″ was proclaimed. How sad that some 30 years later this expansive vision of health founded on primary care and social [...]