<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Ana Vračar</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:ana@phmovement.org" target="_blank">ana@phmovement.org</a>></span><br></div><br><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><u></u>
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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 </span>
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<a href="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/2041dc53?m=a33219b1-51ba-4205-9e52-d0a232aa67c2" style="text-decoration:none;color:#15212a;display:block;text-align:center;margin-top:50px" target="_blank">Bulletin #44: Health systems in the Global South stagger under impact of earthquakes and outbreaks</a>
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By People's Health Dispatch – <span style="white-space:nowrap">18 Feb 2023 – </span><a href="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/4430282c?m=a33219b1-51ba-4205-9e52-d0a232aa67c2" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:none;white-space:nowrap;color:#15212a" target="_blank">View online →</a>
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<div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"></div><h2 id="m_-2050163853665707171m_-7772955739796306636m_7786909138718711906this-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';line-height:1.11em;font-weight:700;margin:1.5em 0 0.5em 0;font-size:32px">This fortnight </h2><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Health care delivery in the northwest of <a href="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/0315a228?m=a33219b1-51ba-4205-9e52-d0a232aa67c2" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Syria</a> 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.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Like Syria, <a href="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/fbaae2aa?m=a33219b1-51ba-4205-9e52-d0a232aa67c2" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Malawi</a> 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.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">In <a href="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/a0cab995?m=a33219b1-51ba-4205-9e52-d0a232aa67c2" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">France</a>, 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.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Health workers and their patients took to the streets in <a href="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/b6b742cd?m=a33219b1-51ba-4205-9e52-d0a232aa67c2" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Madrid</a>. 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.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">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 <a href="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/4df6c93b?m=a33219b1-51ba-4205-9e52-d0a232aa67c2" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Spanish</a>.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">In a new video interview,</span> <a href="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/57bf9d32?m=a33219b1-51ba-4205-9e52-d0a232aa67c2" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Nicoletta Dentico</a> 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.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Two new episodes of the Global Health Watch <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">6 </span>podcast bring activists’ reflections on <a href="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/b891b955?m=a33219b1-51ba-4205-9e52-d0a232aa67c2" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">food systems</a> and health, and threats that <a href="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/f0f68d19?m=a33219b1-51ba-4205-9e52-d0a232aa67c2" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">trade treaties</a> represent for the right to health.</span> In <i>Data speaks</i>, we highlight snippets on breastfeeding data recently published by The Lancet.</p><hr style="display:block;width:100%;margin:3em 0;padding:0;height:1px;border:0;border-top:1px solid #e5eff5"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:18px;vertical-align:top;color:#15212a;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0 20px" valign="top" align="center"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:18px;vertical-align:top;color:#15212a" valign="top"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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