Medics for the People Belgium
Belgium

Medics for the People has a radical plan to rebuild healthcare in Belgium and Europe

Medics for the People has been providing primary health care to people in Belgium for more than 50 years. They recently launched a new mission statement outlining their main streams of work for the upcoming period

Peoples Health Dispatch
June 23, 2022
WTO decides: no TRIPS waiver
World

WTO decides: no TRIPS waiver

Trade delegates and WTO Secretariat celebrate package of documents issued at the end of the Ministerial Conference, yet outlook for Global South remains bleak

Peoples Health Dispatch
June 17, 2022
Uganda allied health workers strike
Uganda

Health workers in Uganda strike over pay disparities and unkept promises

A strike by allied health workers in Uganda has led nurses and physicians to announce industrial action too in case the government fails to live up to its promises of increasing salaries

Peoples Health Dispatch
May 25, 2022
Ambulance drivers strike Croatia
Croatia

Ambulance drivers and nurses strike in Croatia

Non-emergency ambulance drivers and nurses in eight counties of Croatia held a strike on the grounds of pay disparity

Peoples Health Dispatch
May 23, 2022
Women in Croatia say enough to conservative obstruction of right to abortion
Croatia

Women in Croatia say enough to conservative obstruction of right to abortion

Women in nine cities in Croatia organized mass protests against denial of abortion care and attempts by conservatives to curb sexual and reproductive health rights

Peoples Health Dispatch
May 16, 2022
What does the Marcos-Duterte government mean for access to health in the Philippines?
Philippines

What does the Marcos-Duterte government mean for access to health in the Philippines?

The election of Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte is cause for concern for health justice activists in the Philippines as they expect increased persecution and insufficient budget for health

Peoples Health Dispatch
May 13, 2022
Kenya health services
Kenya

Healthcare in Kenya remains elusive due to commercialization

A report by the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights shines light on harmful effects of commercialization of health in Kenya among communities living in informal urban settlements

Peoples Health Dispatch
May 13, 2022
Israel sentences Palestinian nurse and health activist Shatha Odeh to 16 months in prison
Israel Palestine

Israel sentences Palestinian nurse and health activist Shatha Odeh to 16 months in prison

On International Nurses Day, an Israeli military tribunal gave nurse and health activist Shatha Odeh a 16-month prison sentence. was given a 5 year suspended sentence on the condition that she does not provide health servicesfeat

Peoples Health Dispatch
May 13, 2022