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Ben Verboom 🍉 @verboom.bsky.social · Jul 7

Global Impact of Attacks on Healthcare in Conflict Zones

Join Dr Swee Chai Ang of @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, Dr James Smith, & Dr Neve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social for this crucial discussion

July 9, 6-8pm, Milton Lecture Theatre, London. You can also join online

Register: tinyurl.com/vacans5t

Global impact of attacks on healthcare in conflict zones

Attacks on healthcare in conflict zones are on the rise. Join to hear first hand accounts of working as a doctor in humanitarian settings.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Jun 23

The only thing I can say about Keir Starmer is thank God he wasn't PM back in May 1940.
He will go along dutifully with whatever Trump claims.
Canadians would be fools to think this punter would have our back in a showdown with Trump.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Starmer backs Trump’s Iran bombing saying Tehran cannot develop a nuclear weapon

Prime minister backs US president as he bombs Iranian nuclear sites and says key facilities ‘completely and totally obliterated’

www.independent.co.uk

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Ben Verboom 🍉 @verboom.bsky.social · Jun 4

Palestine was a dominant topic at the World Health Assembly this year.

Countries debated how to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and agreed to include Palestine to the International Health Regulations regime.

My reporting, with @pritipatnaik.bsky.social, for the Geneva Health Files.

Geneva Health Files @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social · Jun 4

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]

genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/-countries...

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Geneva Health Files @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social · Jun 4

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]

genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/-countries...

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Ben Verboom 🍉 @verboom.bsky.social · Jun 4

Palestine was a dominant topic at the World Health Assembly this year.

Countries debated how to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and agreed to include Palestine to the International Health Regulations regime.

My reporting, with @pritipatnaik.bsky.social, for the Geneva Health Files.

Geneva Health Files @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social · Jun 4

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]

genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/-countries...

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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · May 29

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

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Ben Verboom 🍉 @verboom.bsky.social · May 27

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

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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · May 27

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

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Ben Verboom 🍉 @verboom.bsky.social · May 27

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

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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · May 26

#WHA78 Israel has called for a recorded vote on draft resolution (A78/B/CONF./2) on Raising the flags of non-Member Observer States at the World Health Organization. @who.int

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Ben Verboom 🍉 @verboom.bsky.social · May 24

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Ben Verboom 🍉 @verboom.bsky.social · May 24

@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

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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · May 24

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

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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · May 23

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

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.

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WHO @who.int · May 24

Day 6 of the 78th session of the World Health Assembly has just started.

Follow the #WHA78 discussions on our website bit.ly/78thWorldHea...

Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly

The 78th World Health Assembly is being held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 19–27 May 2025. The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member ...

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · May 23

Reports from Gaza confirm that people are now literally dying of starvation.

Western leaders have issued words of condemnation, but words are not enough. They have the power to stop this genocide now.

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Ben Verboom 🍉 @verboom.bsky.social · May 23

"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

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Ben Verboom 🍉 @verboom.bsky.social · May 23

[email protected]‬ 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

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Ben Verboom 🍉 @verboom.bsky.social · May 23

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

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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · May 23

Incoming Board members of @who.int #WHA78 #EB157

Cabo Verde
Central African Republic
Egypt
El Salvador
Haiti
Japan
Nepal
Panama
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Solomon Islands
Spain

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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · May 22

Committee A now discussing Notifying the International Health Regulations (2005) to Palestine #WHA78 @who.int @emmafarge.bsky.social

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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · May 22

Our #WHOWatch team hard at work in Geneva casting a critical eye on the #WorldHealthAssembly and bringing a radical, grassroots critique to global health governance. #WHA78 #HealthForAll

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Ben Verboom 🍉 @verboom.bsky.social · May 19

The World Health Assembly votes to adopt a new treaty on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. #WHA78 @who.int

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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · May 20

We love opera as much as the next person.

But amidst multiple intersecting global health crises, and with civil society delegations being limited to 60-second interventions in these crucial meetings, we wonder if this is the best use of time at the World Health Assembly. #WHA78

#HealthForAll

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