PHM-Exch> Fwd: Bulletin #70: Will it be possible to build peace through global health?

Fri Feb 23 15:01:25 PST 2024

This fortnight The healthcare infrastructure in the Gaza Strip has been
decimated. Targeting key hospitals and health personnel in the northern
regions, the Israeli army has now turned its attention to the south, where
most of the Strip’s population seeks refuge. During this onslaught, Israeli
armed forces have besieged and targeted some of the key health facilities
south of the Wadi Gaza line, including Al-Amal Hospital and Nasser Medical
Complex. We provide insights into the recent attacks o

Bulletin #70: Will it be possible to build peace through global health?
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This fortnight

The healthcare infrastructure in the Gaza Strip
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/35c2ee2a?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
has been decimated. Targeting key hospitals and health personnel in the
northern regions, the Israeli army has now turned its attention to the
south, where most of the Strip’s population seeks refuge. During this
onslaught, Israeli armed forces have besieged and targeted some of the key
health facilities south of the Wadi Gaza line, including Al-Amal Hospital
and Nasser Medical Complex
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/aea528a7?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
.

We provide insights
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/7bc2b058?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>into
the recent attacks on healthcare in southern Gaza, along with an overview
of Israeli assaults on health in Palestine since October 7, 2023.

Members of the World Health Organization have commenced a new round of
negotiations on the Pandemic Treaty
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/eb63fcd4?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>.
With the deadline for submitting the document to the World Health Assembly
in May, negotiators should be finalizing the details. However, countries
from the Global North appear determined to disregard the lessons learned
from the COVID-19 pandemic and prioritize the interests of pharmaceutical
companies over global health concerns. Jyotsna Singh from the People’s
Health Movement interviewed Third World Network’s KM Gopakumar to delve
deeper into this issue.

The WHO is also engaging in discussions on the Global Health and Peace
Initiative
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/a5811813?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
seeking to enhance the peacemaking role of health worldwide. While the
initiative aims to reflect the agency’s increasing involvement in
situations of armed conflict, the current version still lacks clarity on
key aspects that need further development.

A violent cholera outbreak has endangered the health and lives of thousands
of people in Zambia
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/5d745492?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>.
Although the response has seemingly contained the worst phases of the
outbreak, there is still much to be done in terms of strategy and
strengthening sanitation infrastructure to prevent such occurrences from
becoming regular events.

Junior and trainee doctors in South Korea
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/0816ced7?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
have initiated a major collective action to oppose the government's
announced increase in medical school placements. While the country faces an
extensive shortage of healthcare staff, right-to-health groups have called
for the expansion to proceed as part of broader reforms that prioritize the
public nature of health systems.

In Brazil
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/6ebcfd6c?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
efforts are underway to impose stricter regulations on the marketing of
infant formula, which continues to endanger child health.
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In focus: Health in PalestineMalnourishment could lead to even more deaths
among children in Gaza
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/d15a6183?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

A new report found that that over 15% of children under the age of 2 in
northern Gaza are acutely malnourished, with 3% of them suffering from
wasting. The World Food Programme has warned that without a ceasefire, a
famine may ravage Gaza by May
Israel intensifies assault on healthcare in Gaza. Only 11 hospitals are
partially functioning
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/a99c6cfa?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

Attacks on Al-Amal and Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis leave even more
people without essential health care, health workers under threat
Israeli forces escalate siege on Nasser hospital, several patients killed
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After over 20 days of besieging Nasser Medical Complex, Israeli occupation
forces attacked thousands of people sheltering inside the hospital
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Gallery: Israeli attacks on healthcare in Palestine
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VideoPandemic Treaty negotiations: Will the Global North prevail over
international solidarity?
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/2abf576a?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

Join KM Gopakumar, legal advisor at Third World Network, and Jyotsna Singh
from the People’s Health Movement as they delve into the ongoing
negotiations surrounding the Pandemic Treaty

<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/e55e1dd9?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
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Featured articlesWHO EB endorses Global Health and Peace Initiative, calls
for continued strengthening and financing surge
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Members of WHO’s Executive Board endorsed the Global Health and Peace
Initiative, opening the door for more discussion on peacemaking role of
health around the world
Will training more doctors be enough to strengthen South Korea’s healthcare?
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The recent strike by South Korean trainee doctors against the expansion of
medical school quotas has highlighted the structural issues in the
country’s health system
Cholera still poses risks in Zambia despite decrease in cases
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/cc2d3fa5?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

A deadly cholera outbreak in Zambia continues to endanger lives despite a
reduction in confirmed cases. The government and public health authorities
need to carry out more public health education programs and improve living
conditions that have facilitated the outbreak in the first place
Brazil to support stricter global regulation of infant formula marketing
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/f98297b9?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

Despite strong national policies supporting breastfeeding, Brazil faces
challenges from infant formula producers seeking to dominate the field of
child nutrition. One forthcoming step is to support a WHO resolution for
regulating digital marketing
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