PHM-Exch> Fwd: Bulletin #50: 75 years of WHO and 2 years of People's Health Dispatch
Health PD
health at peoplesdispatch.org
Fri May 19 09:04:30 PDT 2023
This fortnight When the People's Health Dispatch was launched two years
ago, the world was already reeling under the COVID-19 pandemic. The
warnings from health activists, voiced long before the pandemic, quickly
became a harsh reality. Health systems crumbled under the weight of the
pandemic due to cost-cutting measures. These systems relied on a limited
healthcare workforce and their tireless dedication, while multinational
corporations, supported by high-income countries' governments, cont
Bulletin #50: 75 years of WHO and 2 years of People's Health Dispatch
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This fortnight
When the People's Health Dispatch was launched two years ago, the world was
already reeling under the COVID-19 pandemic. The warnings from health
activists, voiced long before the pandemic, quickly became a harsh reality.
Health systems crumbled under the weight of the pandemic due to
cost-cutting measures. These systems relied on a limited healthcare
workforce and their tireless dedication, while multinational corporations,
supported by high-income countries' governments, continued to prioritize
profit over meeting the real needs of people.
The response to the pandemic should have been based on the ideals of
people-centric health systems and calls to challenge the existing global
economic order. Instead of advocating for this vision of health, the
corporate media portrayed healthcare as inevitably expensive, technical,
and detached from the concerns of the people. The People's Health Dispatch
was launched to challenge that and provide an analysis rooted in people’s
initiatives and responsive to people's needs. Its aim is to foster
connections among health struggles occurring worldwide on a daily basis.
Over the past two years, we have witnessed significant developments in the
field of health. The World Health Organization
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/ae9fc999?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
which was founded 75 years ago, continues to face relentless attacks from
the corporate sector and philanthro-capitalist institutions seeking to
undermine its work. Additionally, next year will mark the 50th anniversary
of the initial call for a New International Economic Order. Despite the
considerable changes in the global landscape since the establishment of the
WHO and the NIEO call
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/42f23352?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
these concepts remain vital in inspiring health struggles around the world.
Since 2021, certain regions of the world have experienced important
changes. In Latin America, governments have been elected that prioritize
building health systems centered on well-being rather than profit. Latin
America, with Cuba's
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/47bc36ae?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>revolutionary
legacy serving as inspiration, appears to be at the forefront of
progressive health reforms, spanning from Colombia
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/079b491b?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>to
Brazil.
During this period, we have also witnessed a growing resistance to the
influence of Big Pharma
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/7fb0d337?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>.
This resistance has transcended the context of COVID-19 and evolved into a
broader movement calling for the development of public capacities for the
research and production of medicines and vaccines. The mobilizations
advocating for a TRIPS waiver at the World Trade Organization made it clear
that global health threats like COVID-19 can be defeated through
solidarity, rather than by prioritizing private interests.
Throughout this time, health workers have tirelessly fought for the systems
they operate in, the people they care for, and decent working conditions.
Amidst looming austerity measures and brute force, they have waged their
fights from countries like Myanmar
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/a14a2d90?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>to
South Africa
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/35f5d6cc?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
to Palestine
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/2c918aa2?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
.
As the wave of mobilizations by health workers continues to grow, we remain
steadfast in our support for their struggles. We firmly believe that the
call for Health for All
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/8dd563c1?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>—a
more caring, daring world—will be realized through these collective efforts.
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Featured articles
*75 years after its foundation, WHO struggles for sovereignty
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/3741d009?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*
This year marked the 75th anniversary of the WHO. But as the UN agency
approaches its yearly assembly in Geneva, it is still struggling to secure
adequate resources for functioning independently of the private sector and
pressures from high income countries
*Inspiration and Illumination: People’s Health Assemblies towards a more
caring world
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/1893d6c1?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*
The upcoming 5th People’s Health Assembly in Cali, Colombia, will be an
opportunity to strengthen convergences that can jeopardize the existing
world economic order
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In the last two years
*Is health transformation possible in Colombia? Living sabroso, living
healthy
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/84389b26?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*
The recent victory of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez at the presidential
election in Colombia, a great sense of hope has arisen when protection of
health rights is concerned
*Cuba’s COVID-19 vaccines: A journey of collaboration and revolutionary
solidarity
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/1b45a825?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*
With its development of five COVID-19 vaccines and the promise of sharing
know-how with developing countries, Cuba has remained faithful to Che
Guevara’s values of international solidarity and people-oriented medicine
*The people of the world vs Pfizer Inc.
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/95b623e2?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Pfizer has used every opportunity to maximize
its profits, even if this meant reduced access to life-saving medical
products for most of the world. The same is about to happen in the case of
Paxlovid, the company’s Covid-19 oral treatment
*Health workers in South Africa protest as post-pandemic austerity looms
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/603eae33?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*
Workers in health institutions in several provinces of South Africa have
organized protests and industrial action as they face threats of job loss
and reorganization of services
*Myanmar’s pandemic coup: Health workers in the forefront of resistance
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/89d975b3?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*
Four months after the military took power through a coup, Myanmar confronts
a spike in COVID-19 cases. How are health workers dealing with the twin
challenges of a pandemic and a repressive regime?
*“The killing of a Palestinian is a daily act”
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/ea75a101?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*
Islah Jad, a women’s rights activist and lecturer at Birzeit University,
speaks about the state of the health system in Palestine and why
organizations working for the Palestinian people are being targeted by
Israel
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*Video (ES/EN): The clarion call of Health for All!
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/5dcbd22e?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*
Roman Vega, Global Coordinator of People’s Health Movement, talks to
Peoples Dispatch about the path ahead for the movement as well as measures
that need to be taken in order to achieve them
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/780735a6?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
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Español
*75 años después de su fundación, la OMS lucha por su soberanía
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/696cc6d0?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*
El Día Mundial de la Salud de este año marcó el 75 aniversario de la OMS.
Pero a medida que se acerca su asamblea anual en Ginebra, este organismo de
la ONU sigue luchando por conseguir los recursos adecuados para funcionar
con independencia del sector privado y de las presiones de los países de
renta alta
*La Asamblea Mundial por la Salud de los Pueblos que tendrá lugar en
Colombia marcará un hito en la lucha por el derecho a la salud
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/9e33899a?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*
El Movimiento por la Salud de los Pueblos se moviliza para la 5ª Asamblea
Mundial por la Salud de los Pueblos, que tendrá lugar en Cali (Colombia) en
diciembre de este año
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In case you missed it
Position paper on regional production for equitable access to medicines -
Wemos
Health equity and countries’ sovereignty and self-reliance must be and
remain the core objectives when strengthening regional production of
medicines and other health technologies. This is what Wemos states in a new
position paper. In this publication, we elaborate on these core objectives,
what it…
Wemos•Pearl Heinemans
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/10377e52?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
Tamil Nadu Temporary Nurses Lose Paid Maternity Leaves | NewsClick
The state health department is recovering money paid to contractual nurses
on maternity leave.
Newsclick•Sruti MD
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/e6b07b18?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
Donors to participate in development of WHO budget
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/f02dea3f?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
Nurses in Portugal strike for adequate staffing on International Nurses’
Day : Peoples Dispatch
Two nurses’ trade unions in Portugal launched a one-day strike on
International Nurses’ Day to fight for better staffing and working
conditions
Peoples Dispatch•Peoples Health Dispatch
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/861b69c7?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
There are more pillars to the health system than physicians, say state
workers in Croatia : Peoples Dispatch
A wide coalition of trade unions and professional associations in the
health sector in Croatia is demanding adequate appreciation of their work
as Ministry of Health refuses to discuss pay rise
Peoples Dispatch•Ana Vračar
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/686c0eaf?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
As elections approach, Turkey hopes for change : Peoples Dispatch
Dr. Şebnem Korur, President of the Turkish Medical Association, explains
the conditions and demands of health workers in the country who have faced
repression and difficult working conditions
Peoples Dispatch•Peoples Health Dispatch
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/5034c52a?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
What would it take for a Paradigm Shift in Scotland’s Health? - RADICAL
SCOTTISH POLITICAL WRITING
Submitted by the People’s Health Movement (PHM) Scotland ahead of their
People’s Health Assembly on 10th June, this article was written
RADICAL SCOTTISH POLITICAL WRITING•SLR
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/3c5392c9?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
*People’s Health Dispatch is an initiative of Peoples Dispatch and the
People's Health Movement*
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