Dear CHIFA members
The latest ISSOP e-bulletin is now available and can be found here<https://www.issop.org/2022/08/03/issop-e-bulletin-no-58-july-2022/>
The contents list is below and we have a special emphasis on reproductive rights after the legislative changes in the US which will make abortion harder to achieve in many parts of the country.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
1.1 Message from Jeff Goldhagen. ISSOP President
2. Meetings and news
2.1 WHO appointment on conflict of interest in paediatric associations
2.2 Elimination of mother to child HIV transmission in Botswana
2.3 Peruvian Society of Pediatrics: Preconference Course on “Pediatric Syndemics”
3. International Organisations
3.1 The problem with the formula milk industry. Health professional webinars
3.2 Webinar: Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility
4. Current controversy
4.1 Policy Statement (AAP): Breastfeeding and the use of Breast Milk
4.2 An opinion against the AAP Policy Statement published by the NYT
4.3 Is the US infant formula shortage an avoidable crisis?
4.4 Abortion in Japan
4.5 “First they came for the Socialists”…. A call for Pediatricians to Speak Out
5. CHIFA – IPA - ISSOP/INRICH - reports
5.1 CHIFA report
5.2 IPA report
5.3 ISSOP/BMJPO Special Collection - Voices of Children in the time of COVID
6. FACTS
6.1 Infant Mortality in Japan
7. Publications
7.1 Assessment of care givers’ pre-hospital management of gastroenteritis
7.2 The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Inequity in Routine Childhood Vaccination Coverage: A Systematic Review
7.3 Social Determinants of Child Health
8. Topics in Social Pediatrics
8.1 A small window on Yemen
9. Climate change update
9.1 Ride for their lives 2022
10. Sexual and reproductive rights around the world
10.1 The voices of women and girls must be heard!
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 (HIFA's sister forum on child health and rights). He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group.
Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk
