<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Peoples Health Dispatch</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:health@peoplesdispatch.org">health@peoplesdispatch.org</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 7:57 PM<br>Subject: Bulletin #15: Bad habits<br>To: <<a href="mailto:ana@phmovement.org">ana@phmovement.org</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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Thanks to the hard work and dedication of scientists in South Africa, the world
was alerted to the omicron variant at the end of November. For their respect of
international public health guidance and transparency, most of southern Africa
has been rewarded with travel bans by rich
countries. The same rules did not apply to high-income countries where omicron
was soon identified, shining another light on the ra</span>
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<div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2021/12/people_s_health_dispatch_double_size-2-.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="71"></div><h2 id="m_-1163350302061190051this-fortnight" style="margin-top:0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight:600;margin:1.5em 0 0.5em 0;font-size:32px;line-height:1.22em">This fortnight </h2><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Thanks to the hard work and dedication of scientists in South Africa, the world was alerted to the omicron variant at the end of November. For their respect of international public health guidance and transparency, most of southern Africa has been rewarded with <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/18/the-many-faces-of-travel-bans/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">travel bans</a> by rich countries. The same rules did not apply to high-income countries where omicron was soon identified, shining another light on the racism that still pervades the approach of the Global North to the Global South.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">A similar thing is true for the relationship between countries like France and their overseas territories which are, in a very colonial manner, used for extraction of resources while their living standards are left to plummet. In <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/17/the-pandemic-response-in-martinique-and-guadeloupe-the-looming-shadow-of-colonialism/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Guadeloupe and Martinique</a>, public sector workers, including health workers, continue to protest for better access to health, education, and water, and against the French government’s bad habit to impose policies that do not reflect the needs of the local population.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">In the last two weeks, health workers in <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/17/nurses-protest-in-tbilisi-for-better-pay-and-working-conditions/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Georgia</a>, <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/16/health-workers-hang-up-their-lab-coats-in-protest/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>, <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/14/essential-healthcare-workers-walkout-in-south-australia-demand-workplace-safety/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Australia </a>and <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/16/home-care-workers-protest-24-hour-work-day-in-nyc/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">New York City</a> have staged protests and strikes against deteriorating working conditions, asking recognition for the work they have done before and during the pandemic.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Even though COP26 is behind us, the inter-linkages between health and climate remain on the top of many progressive activists’ agenda. The organisers of the <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/18/there-is-no-health-justice-without-climate-justice/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">People’s Health Hearing</a> on health and climate justice write about the outcome of their discussions, while participants of the Latin American Association of Social Medicine and Collective Health (<a href="https://phmovement.org/towards-a-solidarity-based-quality-and-non-commercialized-health-system/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">ALAMES</a>) report on their hopes to rebuild a meaningful connection between people, politics, and the environment.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Differently from them, private health providers have seen the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to increase their profits. We spoke to Shakuntala Savitra and Deepali Surendra about the role of <a href="https://youtu.be/4ko0PIwkOY8" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">private hospitals during the pandemic</a> in the Indian state of Maharashtra.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><i> The next issue of People’s Health Dispatch will be published on 6 January 2022.</i></p><hr style="display:block;width:100%;margin:3em 0;padding:0;height:1px;border:0;border-top:1px solid #e5eff5"><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/18/the-many-faces-of-travel-bans/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">The many faces of travel bans</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">After the discovery of omicron, several rich countries blocked air traffic to southern Africa, stalling the delivery of supplies needed for the pandemic response and showing their racist bias towards the Global South</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2021/12/airport_agent2.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="338"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/17/the-pandemic-response-in-martinique-and-guadeloupe-the-looming-shadow-of-colonialism/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">The pandemic response in Martinique and Guadeloupe: the looming shadow of colonialism</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Trade unions in the Antille islands have been calling for independence in creating their public health strategies and measures</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2021/12/Guadeloupe-protest.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="333"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/18/there-is-no-health-justice-without-climate-justice/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">There is no health justice without climate justice</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">The organizers of the People’s Health Hearing at COP26 write about how celebrating the ‘right to health’ as an add-on to the Glasgow Climate Pact would be to ignore the co-option of health by perpetrators for greenwashing</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2021/12/Screenshot-267.png" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="338"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://phmovement.org/towards-a-solidarity-based-quality-and-non-commercialized-health-system/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Towards a solidarity-based, quality and non-commercialized health system!</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Under the above slogan, the XVI Latin American Congress of Social Medicine and Collective Health and the XX International Congress of Health Policies, organized by the Latin American Association of Social Medicine and Collective Health – ALAMES, were held in the beautiful venue of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, during the third week of November 2021</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2021/12/alames.jpeg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="338"></div><hr style="display:block;width:100%;margin:3em 0;padding:0;height:1px;border:0;border-top:1px solid #e5eff5"><h2 id="m_-1163350302061190051short-reads" style="margin-top:0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight:600;margin:1.5em 0 0.5em 0;font-size:32px;line-height:1.22em">Short reads</h2><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/17/nurses-protest-in-tbilisi-for-better-pay-and-working-conditions/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Nurses protest in Tbilisi for better pay and working conditions</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Nurses in Georgia are building resistance to harmful government policies, and organized a protest in Tbilisi supported by trade unions</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/size/w1600/2021/12/Georgia_nurses_protest_3-2.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="338"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/16/health-workers-hang-up-their-lab-coats-in-protest/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Health workers hang up their lab coats in protest</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Health workers in Konjic, BIH, stopped working in protest against a prolonged financial crisis of key health institutions in the city</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2021/12/bosnia-health-workers-protest.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="338"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/14/essential-healthcare-workers-walkout-in-south-australia-demand-workplace-safety/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Essential healthcare workers walkout in South Australia, demand workplace safety</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Over a 100 workers staged a walkout in a one-day strike action on December 14, the second to hit major hospitals in South Australia this month. Workers have complained of serious understaffing in State hospitals and unsafe work practices</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/size/w1600/2021/12/oz.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="338"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/16/home-care-workers-protest-24-hour-work-day-in-nyc/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Home care workers protest 24-hour work day in NYC</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Workers rallied to demand unpaid wages from the United Jewish Council home care agency and an end to the 24-hour workday</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/size/w1600/2021/12/ujc-24-hour-workday-protest-1-2048x1152.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="338"></div><hr style="display:block;width:100%;margin:3em 0;padding:0;height:1px;border:0;border-top:1px solid #e5eff5"><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ko0PIwkOY8" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Video: How private hospitals exploited the pandemic</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">We talk to Shakuntala Savitra and Deepali Surendra of the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Maharashtra chapter and Sathi, who have conducted a survey on the role of private hospitals during the pandemic</p><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-embed-card" style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0">
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The country is pushing for more vaccinations — and for its own mRNA vaccine.</div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-metadata" style="display:flex;margin-top:14px;color:#15212a;font-size:13px;font-weight:400"><img src="https://www.newsclick.in/themes/newsclick/favicon.ico" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;margin-right:8px;width:22px;height:22px" width="22" height="22"><span style="line-height:1.5em">NewsClick</span><span style="overflow:hidden;max-width:240px;line-height:1.5em;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><span style="margin:0 6px">•</span>Adrian Kriesch</span></div></div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-thumbnail" style="min-width:140px;max-width:180px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;background-position:center;border-radius:0 2px 2px 0;background-image:url('https://www.newsclick.in/sites/default/files/2021-12/DW_0.PNG')"><img src="https://www.newsclick.in/sites/default/files/2021-12/DW_0.PNG" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:none"></div></a></div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-card" style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0;width:100%;background:#ffffff;margin-top:0"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/13/covid-19-related-health-care-expenditure-pushed-over-half-billion-people-into-poverty-in-2020-say-who-world-bank/" style="display:flex;min-height:148px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid #e5eff5;color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><div style="display:inline-block;width:100%;padding:20px"><div style="color:#15212a;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:600">COVID-19-related health care expenditure pushed over half billion people into poverty in 2020, say WHO, World Bank : Peoples Dispatch</div><div style="display:-webkit-box;overflow-y:hidden;margin-top:12px;max-height:40px;color:#738a94;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:400">The numbers are still rising as governments across the world have failed to create vibrant public health care systems and have left the poor and vulnerable to fend for themselves</div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-metadata" style="display:flex;margin-top:14px;color:#15212a;font-size:13px;font-weight:400"><img src="https://peoplesdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-FavIcon-270x270.png" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;margin-right:8px;width:22px;height:22px" width="22" height="22"><span style="line-height:1.5em">Peoples Dispatch</span><span style="overflow:hidden;max-width:240px;line-height:1.5em;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><span style="margin:0 6px">•</span>Peoples Dispatch</span></div></div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-thumbnail" style="min-width:140px;max-width:180px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;background-position:center;border-radius:0 2px 2px 0;background-image:url('https://peoplesdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FGbS0sRXMAQCevt.jpg')"><img src="https://peoplesdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FGbS0sRXMAQCevt.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:none"></div></a></div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-card" style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0;width:100%;background:#ffffff;margin-top:0"><a href="https://www.keionline.org/37066" style="display:flex;min-height:148px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid #e5eff5;color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><div style="display:inline-block;width:100%;padding:20px"><div style="color:#15212a;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:600">KEI requests an open compulsory license relating to Paxlovid in the Dominican Republic - Knowledge Ecology International</div><div style="display:-webkit-box;overflow-y:hidden;margin-top:12px;max-height:40px;color:#738a94;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:400">On Friday, December 3, 2021, KEI requested an open public interest license to allow the exploitation of PF-07321332 (marketed in combination with ritonavir under the brand Paxlovid) in the Dominican Republic. PF-07321332, being developed by Pfizer, has shown promising results… Continue Reading →</div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-metadata" style="display:flex;margin-top:14px;color:#15212a;font-size:13px;font-weight:400"><img src="https://www.keionline.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/logo-1.png" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;margin-right:8px;width:22px;height:22px" width="22" height="22"><span style="line-height:1.5em">Knowledge Ecology International</span><span style="overflow:hidden;max-width:240px;line-height:1.5em;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><span style="margin:0 6px">•</span>Luis Gil Abinader</span></div></div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-thumbnail" style="min-width:140px;max-width:180px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;background-position:center;border-radius:0 2px 2px 0;background-image:url('https://www.keionline.org/wp-content/uploads/ONAPI.jpg')"><img src="https://www.keionline.org/wp-content/uploads/ONAPI.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:none"></div></a></div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-card" style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0;width:100%;background:#ffffff;margin-top:0"><a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2021/12/nurse-shortage-labor-crisis-health-care-workers-hospital-corporations" style="display:flex;min-height:148px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid #e5eff5;color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><div style="display:inline-block;width:100%;padding:20px"><div style="color:#15212a;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:600">Hospitals Are Using the Nursing Shortage to Stiff Health Care Workers</div><div style="display:-webkit-box;overflow-y:hidden;margin-top:12px;max-height:40px;color:#738a94;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:400">Rather than materially address the underlying issues of the nursing shortage crisis, health care providers are exploiting it in order to further consolidate power at the top of industry hierarchies — and break the power of organized labor below.</div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-metadata" style="display:flex;margin-top:14px;color:#15212a;font-size:13px;font-weight:400"><img src="https://jacobinmag.com/static/apple-touch-icon.png" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;margin-right:8px;width:22px;height:22px" width="22" height="22"><span style="overflow:hidden;max-width:240px;line-height:1.5em;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><span style="margin:0 6px">•</span>Heather Rust</span></div></div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-thumbnail" style="min-width:140px;max-width:180px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;background-position:center;border-radius:0 2px 2px 0;background-image:url('https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/04165121/GettyImages-1230201076.jpg')"><img src="https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/04165121/GettyImages-1230201076.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:none"></div></a></div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-card" style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0;width:100%;background:#ffffff;margin-top:0"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/05/not-omicron-but-greed-of-capital-threatens-the-world/" style="display:flex;min-height:148px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid #e5eff5;color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><div style="display:inline-block;width:100%;padding:20px"><div style="color:#15212a;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:600">Not Omicron but greed of capital threatens the world : Peoples Dispatch</div><div style="display:-webkit-box;overflow-y:hidden;margin-top:12px;max-height:40px;color:#738a94;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:400">The deliberate policy of big pharma and rich countries to leave large populations in poorer countries unvaccinated could plunge the world into another downturn</div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-metadata" style="display:flex;margin-top:14px;color:#15212a;font-size:13px;font-weight:400"><img src="https://peoplesdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-FavIcon-270x270.png" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;margin-right:8px;width:22px;height:22px" width="22" height="22"><span style="line-height:1.5em">Peoples Dispatch</span><span style="overflow:hidden;max-width:240px;line-height:1.5em;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><span style="margin:0 6px">•</span>Prabir Purkayastha</span></div></div><div class="m_-1163350302061190051kg-bookmark-thumbnail" 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