PHM-Exch> Fwd: Bulletin #44: Health systems in the Global South stagger under impact of earthquakes and outbreaks

[Health PD]

This fortnight   Health care delivery in the northwest of Syria remains
under threat after the region was hit by two strong earthquakes on February
6. The damage caused by the earthquake adds to the burden accumulated in
the health system after years of sanctions, armed conflict, and scarcity of
essential medical products. Activists warn that the scale of relief efforts
need to pick up soon in order to avoid an even bleaker scenario. Like
Syria, Malawi has been facing a cholera outbreak since

Bulletin #44: Health systems in the Global South stagger under impact of
earthquakes and outbreaks
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/2041dc53?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
By People's Health Dispatch – 18 Feb 2023 – View online →
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This fortnight

Health care delivery in the northwest of Syria
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/0315a228?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
remains under threat after the region was hit by two strong earthquakes on
February 6. The damage caused by the earthquake adds to the burden
accumulated in the health system after years of sanctions, armed conflict,
and scarcity of essential medical products. Activists warn that the scale
of relief efforts need to pick up soon in order to avoid an even bleaker
scenario.

Like Syria, Malawi
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/fbaae2aa?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
has been facing a cholera outbreak since 2022. The situation escalated near
the end of the year, and over 1,000 people have lost their lives to the
disease. We interviewed health activist Wilson Asibu on the causes and
implications of the outbreak.

In France
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/a0cab995?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
protests against president Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform continue.
Vladimir Nieddu from the People’s Health Movement France explains why the
reform represents a threat to the local health system, which has already
been exposed to austerity measures.

Health workers and their patients took to the streets in Madrid
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/b6b742cd?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>.
Following weeks of industrial action in primary health care services and
growing mobilizations for health rights in the whole country, hundreds of
thousands of people in Spain’s capital protested against the regional
government’s pro-privatization health policies.

During the recently concluded meeting of the World Health Organization’s
(WHO) Executive Board, country representatives discussed lessons learned
from the COVID-19 pandemic and the agency’s pandemic preparedness. We bring
an overview of their agenda in Spanish
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/4df6c93b?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
.

In a new video interview, Nicoletta Dentico
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/57bf9d32?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
from the Geneva Global Health Hub explains why it is important that WHO
members consider financial justice as they take key decisions on the
agency's approach to health emergencies.

Two new episodes of the Global Health Watch podcast bring activists’
reflections on food systems
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/b891b955?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
and health, and threats that trade treaties
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/f0f68d19?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
represent for the right to health. In *Data speaks*, we highlight snippets
on breastfeeding data recently published by The Lancet.
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Featured articles

*After the earthquake, Syria faces new health concerns
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/ec35d8fc?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

The earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey on February 6 added to the stress
shouldered by health workers and services in Syria, already weakened by
sanctions and conflict

*Stopping cholera in Malawi: firefighting measures are not enough
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/4863ab06?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

As Malawi continues to face a rampant cholera outbreak, local activists
call for long-term investment in the health system and more health workers
to complement short-term solutions

*‘Emmanuel Macron wants to shift the burden of the crisis on the working
class’
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/8c0597c2?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

A conversation with Vladimir Nieddu of the People’s Health Movement (PHM)
France and the International Commission of La Fédération SUD Santé Sociaux
on mobilization against pension reforms in France’s health sector

*Hundreds of thousands rally across Spain against attack on public health
services
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/30598182?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

Health workers and progressive political groups in Spain have condemned the
conservative regional administrations in Madrid, Galicia, and Castilla y
Leon over the plight of public health services
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*Video: Who will finance pandemic preparedness and response?*
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/7e92f1d8?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

Nicoletta Dentico from Society for International Development and Geneva
Global Health Hub talks about the recent discussions of the WHO Executive
Board on the financing of the organization, and what the pandemic has
taught us about funding models

<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/16f2adce?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
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Español

*El Consejo Ejecutivo de la OMS se reunirá mientras continúan los brotes y
se estancan los avances hacia la cobertura sanitaria universal.
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/9f628a11?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

La 152ª reunión del Consejo Ejecutivo de la OMS se celebrará del 30 de
enero al 7 de febrero, con un orden del día que incluye los avances hacia
la Cobertura Sanitaria Universal, el acceso equitativo a diagnósticos y
terapias, la nutrición y más.
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Global Health Watch podcast

*Food security*
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/4dadeb28?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

In the fifth episode of the Global Health Watch podcast, activists explore
the flaws of the global food system, which pollutes, consolidates control
in a few oligopolies, and ravages the land needed for production, while
failing to meet the world’s need for healthy and nutritious food

*Trade and health*
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/6711a51b?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

Lauren Paremoer and Ronald Labonté, addressing the issue of new trade
treaties and their potential threats to public health. They explain how
international investment treaties have become one of the most predatory
forms of financialized capitalism
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Data speaks

*Structural factors impacting breastfeeding*
Source: The Lancet 2023 series on breastfeeding,
https://www.thelancet.com/series/breastfeeding-2023
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