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...

"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] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/provisions...

#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

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

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 @unicef.org

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 tinyurl.com/WHA78

@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” 💪 #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 tinyurl.com/PHM-WHA78upd...

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

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

[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

#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

📢 #WHA78 | WHO WATCH - DAILY BRIEF – 22 May The #WHOWatch daily brief covering day 4 of the World Health Assembly is out Topics include: health emergencies, Ukraine, Palestine, WHO's budget and more Please read and share widely, and join the #HealthForAll movement phmovement.org/who-watchers...

🚨 Intensified military operations in #Gaza are pushing the health system to collapse: bit.ly/45mse09

📢 #WHA78 | WHO WATCH - DAILY BRIEF – 21 May Our PHM #WHOWatchers have compiled a Daily Brief capturing key discussions from Day 3 of the World Health Assembly 🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/PHM-WHA78upd... 📚 Available in En, Fr & Es 📣 Please share widely. #WHA78 #PHM4Health #GlobalHealthJustice

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

📢 WHA78 DAY 2 | WHO WATCH DAILY BRIEF Read our daily brief for the latest insights from the floor of the World Health Assembly! 📚 All Daily Briefs will be uploaded here throughout the #WHA78 week: tinyurl.com/PHM-WHA78upd... 📣 Stay informed. Share widely. #PHM4Health #GlobalHealthJustice 🌍

And stay tuned for our daily updates at the conclusion of each day of the Assembly. #WHA78

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

Our #WHOWatch team is bringing our critique of militarism, genocide and aggression to the streets, on the margins of the World Health Assembly in Geneva. At #WHA78 tomorrow, Palestine is on the agenda. We are demanding safety for health workers and an end to the occupation. #NotATarget

Our #WHOWatch team is bringing our critique of militarism, genocide and aggression to the streets, on the margins of the World Health Assembly in Geneva. At #WHA78 tomorrow, Palestine is on the agenda. We are demanding safety for health workers and an end to the occupation. #NotATarget

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

📢 WHA78 | Daily Update – 19 May 2025 PHM has compiled a Daily Brief capturing key events from Day 1 of #WHA78. 🔗 Read the update: tinyurl.com/PHM-WHA78upd... 📚 All Daily Briefs will be uploaded to this link throughout the World Health Assembly. 📣 Share widely. Join the #HealthForAll movement 🌍

🟣 PHM Policy Brief for #WHA78 🟣 👉 tinyurl.com/PHM-WHA78pol... Dive into critical global health issues including: 🔹 NCDs 🔹 Mental Health 🔹 Health Workforce 🔹 Traditional Medicine 🔹 Pandemic Treaty 🔹 Health in Palestine + more 📢 Share widely & join the movement for health justice! #HealthForAll 🌍

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

The World Health Assembly is now considering the draft text of the @who.int #pandemictreaty. The #INB co-chairs open the discussion. "The world is watching. Let's make a difference. The future is waiting." #WHA78

WHO faces a 21% reduction from the original proposed budget for the 2026-27 biennium. “If we think US$ 2.1 billion a year is ambitious—or $ 4.2 billion for the biennium—then either we must lower our ambitions for what WHO is and does, or we must raise the money.” - @drtedros.who.int bit.ly/3ZrwCXZ

@drtedros.who.int on the global health funding crisis and the withdraw of aid: "Many ministers have told me that sudden and steep cuts to bilateral aid are causing severe disruption in their countries and imperiling the health of millions of people." @who.int #WHA78

At the World Health Assembly, Dr Tedros of @who.int made an impassioned plea for the people of Gaza. "2 million people are starving [...] the risk of famine in Gaza is increasing with the deliberate withholding of humanitarian aid, including food, in the ongoing blockade" #WHA78 @drtedros.who.int

@drtedros.who.int: “More than 10,000 patients still need medical evacuation out of Gaza...we ask Israel to allow these evacuations and to allow urgently needed food and medicine to enter Gaza. WHO stands ready, with our UN partners, to move rapidly to deliver it.” #WHA78

@drtedros.who.int of @who.int addresses Israel's attacks on the health of the people of Gaza. "Two million people are starving, while 116,000 tons of food is blocked at the border just minutes away...The risk of famine in Gaza is increasing with the deliberate withholding of humanitarian aid."

#WHA78 @who.int @drtedros.who.int DG Speech now: www.who.int/about/govern...

Dr Tedros @drtedros.who.int (WHO Director-General) congratulating INB members on finalizing the proposed Pandemic Accord: “I look forward to your adoption of the [pandemic] agreement and I look forward to celebrating with you.” #WHA78

The @who.int Director-General delivers opening remarks to the 78th World Health Assembly #WHA78. "Every WHA is important, but this one is especially so."

In what has become a yearly tradition, China spoke against Taiwan’s inclusion in the World Health Assembly, claiming that “the Taiwan question is an internal question to China and a legacy of the civil war” and “the Taiwan-related proposal interferes in China’s internal affairs" #WHA78 @who.int