Very happy to see our reflection on #refugees access to #medicines published @GlobalHealthBMJ. This is my first publication at my new affiliation @ITMantwerp in a fantastic collaboration with @RRavinetto @VeroWirtz @sal_hargreaves and other co-authors

A new article for BMJ Global Health co-authored by Dawn Chatty argues that European nations' suspension of asylum applications for Syrians following the fall of the Assad regime is premature, legally & ethically problematic, & poses serious health risks. https://t.co/nk9T1nxOEv

“Trump to remove US sanctions on Syria in major policy shift” A historic step! Let’s see how this will contribute to the efforts of health systems rebuilding efforts! #Syria #Sanctions https://t.co/mHQTPtys3R

#Syria's #health crisis transition: challenges and opportunities https://t.co/eN3XsLG7sP https://t.co/eN3XsLG7sP

Sanctions can devastate health systems, limiting access to lifesaving care and essential medicines. I had the privilege of speaking with @leloveluck from the @washingtonpost about the critical impact of sanctions on healthcare in Syria. It is time to prioritize people's health

Key details: The U.S. Treasury authorized “specific transactions” with Syrian institutions, including energy sales, supply, storage, and donations, as well as personal remittances processed through the Central Bank. The license explicitly excludes security and military entities

أعلن فريق الاستجابة السريعة في مستشفى المواساة الجامعي في دمشق صباح اليوم عن نقص حاد في المستلزمات الإسعافية الأساسية، ما يهدد منظومة الخدمات الصحية كاملةً.

'It Is Important to Call a Genocide a Genocide,’ Consider Suspending Israel’s Credential as UN Member State, Experts Tell Palestinian Rights Committee

Syria's Bashar al-Assad: the crimes of a physician - The Lancet

1/5 We are extremely concerned over the fate & wellbeing of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital who was detained by Israeli forces along with others during a raid on the hospital on 27 December. He must be released immediately and unconditionally.

I spend hours every day scrolling through testimonies of liberated detainees from Syrian prisons. An entire lifetime may not be long enough to listen to all their stories of torture and humiliation. I keep wondering how this was allowed to happen.. until I remember Gaza and

90% of #Syrians live below poverty line. Millions are still in tented settlements - even if they return to their villages and cities, homes & infrastructure are destroyed. #Healthcare is decimated & people’s #health & #MentalHealth has suffered due to #conflict @HealthSyria

Publication alert📢 Our paper "Healthcare provision for displaced people in transit: Analyses of routinely collected data from INTERSOS clinics at the Ukrainian border with Moldova and Poland." published at the Journal of Migration and Health. This paper reports on access to

For the apologists who empowered the #regime & still think #Syrians would be better off under the brutal dictatorship as it was ‘secular’ - & those who mocked & denied the victims of Assad’s #chemical weapons & #massacres - read this summary of his crimes from @snhr @SN4HR

Time to stop sanctions against Syria. @SalehAljadeeah argues 3 main reasons: 1 - Sanctions were against Assad - He is gone. 2- Sanctions are hampering access to health care. 3 - Let's not give the new regime any reason for not respecting human rights. https://t.co/mWSuPIPYLH

We need to discuss the impact of economic #sanctions on access to medicines. In our correspondence published today at the #Lancet , we provide arguments for why at least some sanctions should be lifted in post-Assad #Syria. “It is time to give priority to humanity and the right

@ITMantwerp short course on #Pharmaceutical #Policies in Health Systems provides tools to understand, analyse & propose strategies for strengthening pharmaceutical systems toward #UHC. Apply by 15 Jan 2025! https://t.co/8dC6HqQ0eD @BelenTarrafeta @SalehAljadeeah @HazelBradleyUWC

We are starting to see the tip of the iceberg of cruelty that has occurred under five decades of authoritarian rule

To please all the cynics and Yankees and Pepe the frog fans, Syrians have to be able to irrefutably prove, within less than 24 hours of overthrowing a 54 years old dynastic, brutal, torturing, sectarian dictatorship, the following:

The Assad regime will go down in history as one of the ugliest, bloodiest and most brutal regimes ever known. The post-Assad era is unknown. Everything is possible. But this is a truly historic moment of freedom that is worth celebrating, big time, regardless of what comes next