Grateful to Annie Kelly and The Guardian for the opportunity to publish this opinion piece alongside the testimonies of those who have dared to bear witness to the assault on healthcare they experienced in Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Progress amnesia? 🧠

Fantastic work!!

Who says that? Nobody oposes alcohol-free beer overall. Health agencies just ask for similar advertisement standards so as to not expose children/youth to alcohol brand names, and do further research on impact. The author is some libertarian misinformer paid by Big Alcohol...

Right!!! Freetown is calling you. 😉 This was even right after the annual beach clean up. oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/eubeachclean...

imagine if you could imagine things

and then they were just like you imagined.

well, now we all get to live there --

or else

Thanks Anita!!

CHAI wrote a good article on the causes of the shortages of BPG that partially caused this or at least hamper treatment. academic.oup.com/inthealth/ar...

ELS is ‘experimental lab sample’, basically means improve the compound in the lab

(5/5) ⏰⏰⏰ We need to talk more about access to asthma medication, and access to treatment for NCDs as a whole. ⏰⏰⏰

#AsthmaCrisis #AccessToMedicines #NCDs

(4/5) Data does show severe asthma rates of around 25.6% in sub-Saharan Africa, with 4.6% of cases remaining uncontrolled despite high-intensity treatment. In these cases only biologicals could help, but universal access to those remains far away.

www.jaci-global.org/article/S277...

(3/5) Even in the USA 1 in 3 patients are estimated struggled to access their inhalers, but also in India where the majority is produced they are not affordable for all. Most cases I heard about were about young people in sub-Saharan Africa. But there is really little data there on access.

(2/5) Inhalers are costly due to monopolistic pricing, patents on drug-device combos (device-hops), and regulatory hurdles that block cheaper generics. Recent reforms in inhalers to eliminate ozone-depleting propellants did not help either.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Consider yourself surprised! FAO usually does not welcome or push so much as a technical organisation, but it does significant work on the food safety of these products. UNEP wrote a report about the environmental promise of these products, FAO co-authored: www.unep.org/resources/wh...

And if you plan to host global health events and meetings, here is a list of visa friendly countries

communities.springernature.com/posts/visa-f...

Would love to be added as well!