PHM-Exch> Fwd: Bulletin #78: Starvation looms over Gaza; commercialization threatens health in Brazil

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This fortnight   Healthcare services in the Gaza Strip have nearly
collapsed, with care being provided by the sheer determination of nurses,
paramedics, doctors, and other health workers. Hunger rates are escalating,
and the risk of disease outbreaks looms due to debris and overflowing
sewage infrastructure. A ceasefire is essential for healthcare services in
Palestine to fully restart and rebuild. Health workers in Palestine and
worldwide are calling for an end to the violence. Recently, Heal

Bulletin #78: Starvation looms over Gaza; commercialization threatens
health in Brazil
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*This fortnight*

Healthcare services in the Gaza Strip have nearly collapsed
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/d64c2eb3?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
with care being provided by the sheer determination of nurses, paramedics,
doctors, and other health workers. *Hunger *
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/5606b37c?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>rates
are escalating, and the risk of disease outbreaks looms due to debris and
overflowing sewage infrastructure.

A ceasefire is essential for healthcare services in Palestine to fully
restart and rebuild. Health workers in Palestine and worldwide are calling
for an end to the violence. Recently, *Healthcare Workers for Palestine*
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/2dcd0151?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
in the US protested in Chicago, demanding the American Medical Association
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/ceb617ce?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
support a ceasefire and recognize the violence in Gaza as genocide.

Healthcare in Palestine and other countries ridden by imperialist violence
and conflict remains one of the priorities of the People’s Health Movement
(PHM). After the People’s Health Assembly in Mar del Plata, Argentina, PHM
is now implementing its *call to action*
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/f5bf8931?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
aiming to build a new international economic order based on peace,
solidarity, and respect.

In Brazil, health is threatened by climate change and private sector
encroachments. Recent *floods *
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/2f171770?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>in
Rio Grande do Sul have literally submerged primary healthcare services. At
the same time, pressures to privatize *blood product*
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/71f8e3e5?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
production could throw Brazil back to the 1970s, when insufficient safety
measures led to contaminated blood transfusions. Additionally, a new bill
that would equate abortion
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/6a9880de?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
with murder has sparked protests.

*Nepal’s *
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/351d6760?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>Community
Health Workers have joined a trade union delegation to the annual
International Labor Organization meeting, continuing their struggle for job
stability and fair wages. By campaigning for their recognition, they are
also advocating for stronger public health systems that benefit all.
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In focus: Health workers in US against genocideHealthcare workers protest
AMA’s silence on genocide in Gaza
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/7b4f1e5d?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

Healthcare Workers for Palestine activists protested at a recent American
Medical Association meeting, condemning the association’s silence on the
genocide in Palestine
Healthcare workers will protest the American Medical Association’s silence
in the face of genocide
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/2148bb5b?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

On June 8, healthcare workers are staging a demonstration outside of a
meeting of the American Medical Association House of Delegates
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In focus: Health in PalestineStarvation and healthcare collapse loom over
Gaza
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/c8780269?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

Starvation in Gaza, exacerbated by Israeli armed forces’ violence, is
killing children
Healthcare in the West Bank under siege as Gaza nears starvation
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/8d0921f6?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

Half of Gaza’s population may face starvation within a month, while
healthcare in the West Bank is becoming increasingly inaccessible due to
obstructions by Israeli forces
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Featured articlesGlobal People’s Health Movement calls for a new
international economic, political, and social order
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/512bc8ed?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

At a recent global gathering, hundreds of health activists committed to
uniting the health movement with other progressive social movements. Their
aim is to form a broad coalition for radical change to counter the crises
of capitalism and imperialism
Nepal’s community health workers advance in struggle for job security and
recognition
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/bf761744?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

Representatives of Nepal’s Female Community Health Volunteers joined trade
union delegations at the annual ILO meeting to advocate for job security
and recognition
Feminists in Brazil mobilize against bill that equates abortion with murder
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/fa65f6b0?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

The Chamber of Deputies surprised many by pushing forward the discussion on
a bill that equates abortion with murder and prohibits abortion even in
cases of rape
Healthcare runs underwater in Rio Grande do Sul
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/624ce2e1?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

The director of the Municipal Health Foundation in São Leopoldo, one of the
cities hardest hit by the floods, provides an account of the current
situation from the perspective of healthcare workers
The dangers of blood as a commodity
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/8eaba916?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

A recent inquiry revealed that commercial blood transfusions infected
33,000 Britons with HIV and Hepatitis C, a risk that Brazil overcame with
the Henfil Law and Hemobrás – risks which may return with the proposed
Plasma PEC

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Photo gallery: What does the Child Pregnancy Bill in Brazil propose?
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