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We watch the World Health Organization so you don't have to. Working for health justice, equity and peace. A project of the People's Health Movement's Global Health Governance Program.
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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]

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Geneva Health Files @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social · Jun 2
"The Provisions of The Pandemic Agreement Are Very Clear on The Direction That The Agreement Wants Countries To Go": Egyptian INB Vice-Chair [The Files Interview]

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

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

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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.

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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

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

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · May 29
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
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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · May 26
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.”⬇️
WHO Mandated To Update Of 30-Year-Old Review On Health Impacts Of Nuclear War - After Heated WHA Debate - Health Policy Watch
For the first time since the 1990s, the World Health Organization has been asked by member states to update its assessment on the health impacts of nuclear
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Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · May 26
No @who.int Aid Has Yet Reached Gaza’s Hospitals – as #WHA78 Votes to ‘Raise the Flag’ of Palestine in Geneva

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No WHO Aid Has Yet Reached Gaza's Hospitals - As WHA Votes To 'Raise The Flag' Of Palestine In Geneva - Health Policy Watch
Vital medical aid from World Health Organization supply trucks has yet to reach the beseiged Gaza enclave since the doors of an 80-day blockade inched open a
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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · May 26
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

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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · May 25
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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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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WHO Watch @who-watch.bsky.social · May 24
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 🌍

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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."

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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

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