Dear CHIFA colleagues,
2 days ago I wrote to CHIFA to report that a global child health article in Archives of Disease of Childhood was behind a paywall. https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/arch-dis-child-no-child-enemy
I also notified the author Trevor Duke and he has responded to say the article is now freely available to all: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/3/190
The principle that 'no child is an enemy' was established by Eglantyne Jebb, who established Save the Children in 1919. The article notes that at least 11,000 innocent children have been killed in Gaza.
COMMENT (NPW): The article does not specifically refer to the recent dismantling of USAID, but we can be sure that in future years people will be estimating how many children have died, directly or indirectly, as a result of the United States' withdrawal of support for the most vulnerable, and the numbers will likely be much greater.
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org