ISSOP e-bulletin November 2021

26 July, 2022

Dear Tony

Thank you very much for your efforts. It is like a New Year gift.

Best wishes,

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Subject: [chifa] ISSOP e-bulletin November 2021

Dear CHIFA members

In time for your pre-Christmas reading, the latest ISSOP e-bulletin has been published and is available on the ISSOP website - https://www.issop.org/2021/12/06/issop-e-bulletin-no-54-november-2021/

This month we have a particular focus on COP 26 and climate change, updates on COVID 19, a controversy feature on young people giving consent to vaccination, highlights from a number of relevant meetings, and reviews of the latest publications.

Don't miss it and please pass on the links. The full contents list is given below.

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

1. Introduction

CONTENTS

1.1 Message from Jeff Goldhagen. ISSOP President

2. Meetings and news

2.1 NGO Committee on Children’s Rights (NY)

2.2 The Canadian Launch of the GlobalChild Platform

2.3 ISCPAN 1st Virtual World Summit

2.4 XXV National Congress and International Congresss of the Spanish Society of Social

Pediatrics

2.5 RCPCH opens new website on practical and reliable information about giving

medicines to children

3. International Organisations

3.1 What is COP and why does it matter?

3.2 Ride for their Lives – from London to Glasgow 3.3 COP 26: Success or failure, or a bit of both?

4. Current controversy

4.1 Child Rights, the Mature Minor Doctrine, and a Pediatrician Advocate 4.2 Comments on Dr Fiscus case (Chile)

4.3 Commentary from the UK

4.4 Viral discrimination

5. CHIFA – IPA - CAP - ISSOP/INRICH - reports

5.1 CHIFA report 5.2 IPA report

5.3 CAP-2030 report

6. Trainee report

6.1 World Children’s Day

7. Publications

7.1 Enriched formula milks and academic performance in later childhood

7.2 Do not despair about climate change

8. Topics in Social Pediatrics reflections

8.1 Suicide in Japan

9. Climate change update

9.1 The language we use

9.2 RCPCH Position Statement: At a Glance 9.3 World headed for 2.4 C warming __________

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