Poverty is a policy choice. Millions of kids are losing access to health care coverage by mistake, but states can stop this harmful trend. Check out this opinion piece by Amanda Kaplan and me, out today in TIME, on how states can support health coverage for kids.

Deeply worrisome and frightening: World Health Organization (WHO) has lost contact with its focal points in Al-Shifa Hospital in #Gaza, amid horrifying reports of the hospital facing repeated attacks. There are reports that some of those who fled the hospital have been shot at, wounded, or killed. The

Of the 11,078 reported fatalities in Gaza due to the current conflict, there were 3,027 women, 4,506 children, and 678 elderly people, according to UN Humanitarian. That adds up to 74% of the total fatalities. ochaopt.org/content/hostil…

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"We are still children. What is our fault?” asks 12-year-old Remas from Gaza. UNICEF continues to call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, unrestricted humanitarian access across Gaza, and immediate and safe release of all abducted children.

These are the sounds of the final gasp from Gaza’s collapsing healthcare system. Nada Bashir reports.

I am deeply disturbed by the horrible situation and dramatic loss of life in several hospitals in Gaza. In the name of humanity, I call for an immediate humanitarian cease fire.

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"Palestinian health officials in Gaza said Tuesday that they have lost the ability to count the dead because of the collapse of parts of the enclave’s health system and the difficulty of retrieving bodies from areas overrun by Israeli tanks and troops." washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/…

Check out my new piece in Health Affairs with Yongjin Choi on the reasons for low COVID-19 vaccination rates in LMICs. Using survey data, we find that about half of unvaccinated people were unable to obtain the vaccine, whereas half were unwilling to be vaccinated.

🚨BREAKING: It has now been confirmed that the the aid workers targeted by Israel were travelling in a “deconflicted zone” in two armoured vehicles that were branded with the WCK logo and that it had *coordinated their movements with the Israeli military*… World Central Kitchen

🧵New paper in Conflict and Health: We used satellite imagery to detect damage to critical civilian infrastructure in #Gaza from 7 Oct through 22 Nov. We find widespread, clustered damage around these sites, which are afforded special protections under IHL: conflictandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

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When Save the Children, one of the world’s most respected and trusted charities calls it a “war on children”, listen and act. When UNICEF, the children’s agency, we all grew up supporting, reports from the scene on the daily, massive maiming and killing of children, listen & act.

Gaza is “a post-apocalyptic environment,” with “people just waiting to be killed, either by airstrike, by disease, or even by hunger,” says UNRWA chief Philippe Philippe Lazzarini. On the consequences of the Knesset vote to stop UNRWA’s operations, he warns “that means that the

The EU strongly condemns the killing of 12 paramedics in an Israeli strike near Baalbek. Attacks on healthcare workers and facilities are a grave violation of international humanitarian law. The protection of medical personnel in conflict zones is non-negotiable. 1/2