Conflict and attacks on healthcare must cease, as without peace there can be no health, writes WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus War and disease are old friends. In the Napoleonic wars and the American Civil War, more soldiers died from disease than in battle. It was no coincidence that the 1918 influenza pandemic erupted during the first world war or that the final frontier for eradicating polio is in the most insecure regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ebola outbreak in the relatively stable Équateur province in 2018 took just two months to control, whereas the outbreak in the insecure provinces of North Kivu and Ituri in 2020 took two years. Israel’s wars with Hamas and Hezbollah have had devastating consequences for the health of the people of both Gaza and Lebanon. At the time of writing, more than 43 000 people have been killed in Gaza, more than 10 000 are missing, and more than 102 000 are injured, at least one quarter of whom will need long term rehabilitation.1 In addition, harms to mental health can endure indefinitely. Almost all of Gaza faces severe food insecurity, and 60 000 children under 5 are estimated to have acute malnutrition.2 Every day, hundreds of women give birth in traumatic, unhygienic, and undignified conditions3; 1.2 million children need mental health and psychosocial support for depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts4; there are increasing reports of acute respiratory infections, acute jaundice, and diarrhoeal diseases; and a case of polio has been reported 25 years since it was last seen in Gaza.5 At the very time when Gaza’s health system needs to be supported, one of the legs on which it stands is being kicked out from underneath …

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谭德塞：和平是最好的良药


冲突和对医疗保健的攻击必须停止，因为没有和平就没有健康，世卫组织总干事谭德塞写道。战争和疾病是老朋友。在拿破仑战争和美国内战中，死于疾病的士兵比死于战争的士兵多。1918 年的流感大流行在第一次世界大战期间爆发，或者根除脊髓灰质炎的最后前沿位于阿富汗和巴基斯坦最不安全的地区，这绝非巧合。在刚果民主共和国，2018 年相对稳定的赤道省的埃博拉疫情仅用了两个月就得到了控制，而 2020 年在不安全的北基伍省和伊图里省的疫情只用了两年时间。以色列与哈马斯和真主党的战争对加沙和黎巴嫩人民的健康造成了毁灭性的后果。截至本文撰写之时，加沙已有超过 43000 人丧生，超过 10000 人失踪，超过 102000 人受伤，其中至少四分之一的人需要长期康复。几乎所有加沙都面临严重的粮食不安全，估计有 60 000 名 5 岁以下儿童患有急性营养不良。每天，数百名妇女在创伤、不卫生和不体面的条件下分娩3;120 万儿童需要心理健康和社会心理支持来应对抑郁、焦虑和自杀念头4;急性呼吸道感染、急性黄疸和腹泻病的报道越来越多;自上次在加沙发现脊髓灰质炎病例以来，已有 25 年的历史报告了一例小儿麻痹症。5 就在加沙的卫生系统需要得到支持的时候，它所站立的一条腿正在从下面被踢出......