I applaud Imti Choonara for his strong advocacy in the paper published in BMJ Paediatrics Open on the huge traumas done to children through armed conflict. This topic was covered in the ISSOP meeting in Beirut last year and one of the significant papers presented at the meeting covered the arms trade https://www.issop.org/cmdownloads/perlo-freeman-issop2019/
, this is available on the ISSOP website.
The author of the latter paper, Sam Perlo Freeman, works with the Campaign against the Arms Trade www.caat.o<http://www.caat.org>rg.uk which with Medact www.medact.org<http://www.medact.org> is one of the two organisations most active in this field.
As Imti suggests, paediatric organisations could join the call for an end to this immoral trade. Please do become a member of ISSOP if you would like to back this campaign.
Tony Waterston
CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA www.chifa.org He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group.
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