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Child abuse at US border

7 January, 2020

Following the circulation of a video on CHIFA in December showing doctors being arrested at the US Border for protesting about the lack of immunisation of detained children, one of the founders of this movement and the past President of the American Academy of Pediatrics have come together to write the following in the British Medical Journal, which was published today -

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/01/07/we-must-speak-up-government-sanctio...

Whilst the advocacy has not yet been successful in closing the camps, it must have been of benefit in mitigating the abuse which the children are suffering (which deserves wide publicity and condemnation)

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 <http://www.chifa.org/> He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group. www.hifa.org/people/steering-group www.hifa.org/support/members/tony

Email: Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk