Launch of "Space for Health" SatelLife initative
- Date:
- 1987
- Reference:
- SA/MED/E/1/1/1/4
- Part of:
- Medact
- Archives and manuscripts
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Includes Dr S Farrow, "Space for Health" report of discussions with WHO Geneva, 1987; press release, and related notes and correspondence.
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1987
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Biographical note
At the Seventh IPPNW World Congress in Moscow, the "Space for Health" satellite venture was announced. This joint space venture between the Soviet Space Programme and NASA and WHO, aimed to provide long-term disaster relief and improve international communications. As a result, SatelLife was established, an international non-profit organisation, which used satellite telecommunications to help health professionals around the world communicate more easily, particularly in developing countries.
The initative was initally proposed in 1985, at the Fifth IPPNW World Congress in Budapest. In 1986, the proposal was discussed between Bernard Lown and Eugeni Velikhov, Vice President of the USSR Academy of Science, and Raold Sagdeyev, Director of the Soviet Space Research Institute.
In June 1986, a formal proposal from the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, Nikolai Ryzkhov, was delivered to the Secretary General of the UN, calling for the creation of an international space progreamme to serve the needs of developing countries.
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