Conflict & Health Archives

Close-up photo of a petri dish with agar containing colored microorganisms and bacteria. The Petri dish is on a dark blue background with a blue speckled frame.

Opinion

Tracking superbugs in the wake of war

Armed conflict accelerates the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

By Henry Skinner January 4, 2024

Four premature babies share one plastic hospital bassinet Shifa Hospital in Gaza city. The infant in the bottom left is being fed by a gloved medical worker out of a bottle with a pink top. The bassinet has a patterned sheet, and diapers and bottles are laid among the infants.

Feature

In Gaza, birth becomes a battlefield

There are more than 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza and 180 babies born every day.

By Maryam Zafar December 14, 2023

Photo collage: Five images from the war in Ukraine. Clockwise from top left: Green overlay: A blasted apartment building with Ukrainian flags hanging on a fence and stuffed animals lying in reverence in the foreground. Yellow overlay: A shattered window with a whole from shrapnel. Red overlay: A Red Cross volunteer embraces an elderly woman crying. Blue overlay: A woman stands at the end of a crumbling hallway in a former hospital. Orange overlay: fires burn in a field with apartment and city buildings in the background.

Opinion

We must demand justice for atrocities against health care

Since 2016, there have been more than 4,000 attacks on health care in conflicts around the world. The international community must hold perpetrators accountable.

By Leonard Rubenstein March 7, 2023

Photo illustration: Five images depicting destruction in Ukraine are compiled against a green-concrete background. A blue opaque bar comes in from the top-middle right and a yellow bar comes in from the bottom-middle left. The images show, from left: a forest with burnt trees, three unexploded missiles in a pile of grass, a blonde woman holding back tears in front of an exploded apartment complex, an oil slick in an ocean, and a rusted nuclear radiation sign.

Opinion

Environmental damage in Ukraine raises the health costs of war

Rebuilding Ukraine will be a lesson about the costs of war—to both humans and the environment.

By Daniel Hryhorczuk March 7, 2023

A light pink hospital hallway leads to mass destruction: fallen walls, no ceiling, debris and dirt on the floor. Two panels line flat on the floor in the hallway.

Opinion

Russia’s attacks on health care in Ukraine are war crimes

A new report by leading human rights organizations documents evidence of deliberate attacks on Ukraine's healthcare infrastructure.

By Christian De Vos and 2 more February 21, 2023