This fortnight Shatha Odeh, a nurse and health activist from the organization Health Work Committees (HWC), was detained along with 9 other Palestinian activists by the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) on 7 July, 2021. Her arrest comes a month after raids on HWC headquarters by the IOF. HWC’s role

This fortnight Near the end of June, we celebrated the 113th birth anniversary of Salvador Allende, whose efforts to build a strong public health system in Chile remain an important contribution in the global struggle for the right to health. Allende’s idea of a comprehensive health system included accessible

This fortnight On 14 June, we marked the birth anniversary of Ernesto Che Guevara, whose vision guided the development of the Cuban healthcare system. Today, healthcare in Cuba remains rooted in the ideals of social and revolutionary medicine fought for by Che. They are an inspiration in the current times

This fortnight One year after the COVID-19 pandemic started spreading havoc worldwide, health ministers are once again gathering online for the 74th World Health Assembly (WHA74). WHA74 is being held in the midst of an erratic global vaccine rollout, in which rich countries have elbowed their way to most of

People’s Health Dispatch is a fortnightly bulletin published by Peoples Dispatch and People's Health Movement, focusing on the politics of health and the struggle for the right to health, including actions organised by workers in the sector. We aim to highlight people’s resistance to the commodification of health

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