Due to the convening of the Astana meeting to be held in Kazakhstan next October, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Alma Ata Conference and Declaration, the Latin American Association of Social Medicine (Alames) published the 'Statement against the attempt to absorb PHC in the much-questioned, Universal Health Coverage' (in Spanish) and launched a online petition addressed to the authorities of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ministers of Health of the whole world and the delegates that will be present at the Meeting.

The Alames statement questions several aspects of the 'Astana Declaration on Primary Health Care: From Alma-Ata towards Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals' published by WHO and which has been under public consultation until July 28 of this year. 

The petition asks, among other things, to ratify the Alma Ata declaration and the centrality of comprehensive and comprehensive Primary Health Care (PHC) as a strategy to guarantee the right to health for the explain the in-depth knowledge of the causes that prevented the fulfillment of the "health for all" goal in 2000 to make it credible that we are part of the generation "that will not leave anyone behind." The petition also calls for the inclusion in the new declaration of any form or attempt to subsume the questionable "Universal Health Coverage" of PHC as it appears in the preliminary texts of the declaration, officially circulated by WHO.