Countries Vote in Support of Palestine at World Health Assembly, as Humanitarian and Health Crises Worsen in Gaza
Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #275 [The Files In-Depth]
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#NCDs can't be addressed in isolation from social, economic and commercial determinants of health.
#Neoliberal policies have contributed to the rise of NCDs everywhere, and we need strong regulation of transnational corporations to protect health.
#WHA78
@who.int @medicusmundich.bsky.social
#SocialConnection is key to #MentalHealth, but mental health must be understood in the context of conflict, displacement and economic crisis.
Our statement at #WHA78.
We have to explicitly link mental health to #peacebuilding and tackle psychological problems at their roots.
@who.int
Antimicrobial resistance #AMR is an impending catastrophe
Our call to @who.int and the international community #WHA78
-End industrial factory farming
–Shift to #agroecology
–Defund factory farms
–Invest in #PublicPharma
Our future depends on it.
@psiglobalunion.bsky.social
@verboom.bsky.social
Antimicrobial resistance #AMR is an impending catastrophe
Our call to @who.int and the international community #WHA78
-End industrial factory farming
–Shift to #agroecology
–Defund factory farms
–Invest in #PublicPharma
Our future depends on it.
@psiglobalunion.bsky.social
@verboom.bsky.social
#SocialConnection is key to #MentalHealth, but mental health must be understood in the context of conflict, displacement and economic crisis.
Our statement at #WHA78.
We have to explicitly link mental health to #peacebuilding and tackle psychological problems at their roots.
@who.int
#NCDs can't be addressed in isolation from social, economic and commercial determinants of health.
#Neoliberal policies have contributed to the rise of NCDs everywhere, and we need strong regulation of transnational corporations to protect health.
#WHA78
@who.int @medicusmundich.bsky.social
As a parent I worry about the 🌍 my youngest is entering.
It’s an uncertain 🌍 ; beset by war, poverty, inequality, division; threatened by disease, pandemics and the climate crisis.
Health Ministers gave me hope as they expressed the collective will of the nations of the 🌍 to work together. #WHA78
A nuclear war would inevitably be a mass casualty event.
The People's Health Movement's position on the devastating effects of #NuclearWeapons and #NuclearWar. A statement delivered to the @who.int World Health Assembly with our friends at @psiglobalunion.bsky.social.
#WHA78 @verboom.bsky.social
In partnership with @psiglobalunion.bsky.social, PHM calls for urgent action to resist the colonial, capitalist and oppressive systems that fuel climate catastrophe.
We need binding commitments to phase out fossil fuels and hold historic polluters accountable.
Our lives depend on it.
#WHA78
The spectre of nuclear war haunts our increasingly divided world.
My statement on the health implications of nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
Delivered on behalf of the People's Health Movement @who-watch.bsky.social @psiglobalunion.bsky.social at the 78th World Health Assembly.
#WHA78
With Medicus Mundi @medicusmundich.bsky.social, we point out that the plan fails to confront the catastrophic reality of the world we are creating – one of 3 degrees' warming.
We need corporate taxation, climate reparations and debt cancellation, not delusional incrementalism.
#WHA78
With Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social, we argue that the proposed document fails to name the fossil fuel sector and other extractivist industries that drive climate breakdown and its health impacts.
We should phase out these sectors, not partner with them.
#WHA78
On the last day of the World Health Assembly, debate is still raging on #ClimateChange and #Health.
A major @who.int Action Plan on climate and health hangs in the balance, as Saudi, Russia and others seek to scupper even modest action.
PHM has intervened with allies to inform the debate🧵
#WHA78
A nuclear war would inevitably be a mass casualty event.
The People's Health Movement's position on the devastating effects of #NuclearWeapons and #NuclearWar. A statement delivered to the @who.int World Health Assembly with our friends at @psiglobalunion.bsky.social.
#WHA78 @verboom.bsky.social
PHM statement to the World Health Assembly on health and care workers.
Delivered in concert with allies at @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social
Laws must ensure that migrant workers are treated fairly and equally and that migration doesn't create health worker shortages in poorer countries.
#WHA78
WHO Mandated to Update of 30-Year-Old Review on Health Impacts of Nuclear War – After Heated #WHA78 Debate
✍️Elaine Fletcher
“No update to existing WHO studies could materially alter that established understanding of the devastation of nuclear war.”⬇️
No @who.int Aid Has Yet Reached Gaza’s Hospitals – as #WHA78 Votes to ‘Raise the Flag’ of Palestine in Geneva
✍️Elaine Ruth Fletcher
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The People's Health Movement's statement on Universal Health Coverage at the World Health Assembly.
We need strong, comprehensive primary health care. This is the only viable path to #HealthForAll.
#WHA78
@who.int
It may be the weekend, but #WHOWatch does not rest.
See our update on Saturday's #WHA78 proceedings, which focused on communicable diseases, health financing, and global progress (or lack thereof) on universal health coverage.
Read. Share. Join the movement. #HealthForAll
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@babaaye.bsky.social, Public Services International:
“Financialization of health in any form undermines the essence of universal health care. [...] UHC requires global solidarity. Richer countries and international financial institutions need to cancel the debts of developing countries”
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#WHA78
Catch up on the #WHAWatch analysis of Day 5 of the 78th World Health Assembly.
See our summary of Friday's #WHA78 debates on NCDs, mental health, drowning prevention, laboratory biosafety and more
📣 Please share widely and join the movement for #HealthForAll 🌍
@who.int
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The youth delegate of @nlmissiongeneva.bsky.social: "1 in 3 healthcare workers feels daily exhaustion, 1 in 4 experiences burnout, and 1 in 5 faces abuse...Over 2500 attacks on healthcare have been recorded with over 1000 healthcare workers killed alone in Gaza. This cannot be the norm."
#WHA78
"We need to progressively delink the incentives to invest in biomedical R&D from the grant of temporary monopolies. Legal monopolies on medicines predictably lead to high prices and appalling inequities of access and outcomes."
– @thirugeneva.bsky.social
#WHA78
Image of People's Health Movement statement on NCDs at the World Health Assembly. Test reads: NCDs cannot be addressed in isolation from social, economic and commercial determinants of health. Neoliberal economic policies, particularly with the increasing power of big corporations, have significantly, both directly and indirectly, contributed to the rise of NCDs in developed and developing countries. Impoverishing policies adopted by MS, in the name of trade liberalisation and attracting foreign investment, need to be examined in light of their impact on population health. We urge Member States to adopt institutional mechanisms that undertake such evaluations. We call for stronger regulation of private sector practices, particularly those of transnational corporations, to protect population health. This includes controls over production, marketing and advertising of their products, particularly food, confectionary, and tobacco related products.
Statement by the People's Health Movement's #WHOWatch team on #NCDs at #WHA78
"Neoliberal economic policies, particularly with the increasing power of big corporations, have significantly, both directly and indirectly, contributed to the rise of NCDs in developed and developing countries."
@who.int
.@thirugeneva.bsky.social of Knowledge Ecology International dropping truth bombs at #WHA78:
"The only way to have anything remotely equal in terms of access to medicines is to fundamentally change the way we finance biomedical research and development."
@who.int @jamielove.bsky.social
#NCDs and #MentalHealth are being discussed at #WHA78.
The People's Health Movement believes in community-based, publicly-funded primary health care for mental health and NCDs. #Prevention is essential.
We call on @who.int member states to back comprehensive PHC in the tradition of #AlmaAta.
For the latest WHO Watch updates from Geneva on the ongoing World Health Assembly please follow @who-watch.bsky.social
#WHOWatch is a People's Health Movement program, casting a political lens on health governance, aiming to inform and disrupt, and elevating local concerns to global spaces #WHA78
International isolation visualized
This wasn't a vote to recognize Palestine, but simply to extend the int. health regulations to the OPTs. And Israel couldn’t bring themselves to support it.
And they could only find one ally to vote with them
The majority world is with Palestine and with justice
