Syrian patients receiving treatment in a basement-turned-clinic in the besieged rebel-held town of Douma, on the...
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How UN Humanitarian Aid Has Propped Up Assad
A Red Crescent aid convoy in Douma, March 2018.Bassam Khabieh / Reuters Article initially published in Foreign Affairs...
Blood and war: How a UN agency cooperates with Assad
Elizabeth Hoff, World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Syria, speaks at a press briefing in Geneva on...
Ireland can help UN to stop Assad manipulating humanitarian aid
Omar (10), who was injured in an air strike that killed several members of his family, at a make-shift hospital in...
A summary and appraisal of existing evidence of antimicrobial resistance in the Syrian conflict
Article initially published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases on June 21, 2018 and written by Aula...
Antimicrobial resistance in the context of the Syrian conflict: Drivers before and after the onset of conflict and key recommendations
Article initially published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases on May 21, 2018 and written by Aula...
Populations under siege and in prison require investment from Syria’s national tuberculosis programme
Initially published in The Lancet on May 10, 2018 (as part of Volume 6, Issue 7, E34, published on July 1, 2018) and...
Hypocritic Oath
How WHO and other international agencies aid Assad’s war against Syria’s civilians. Article initially published in...
Death and suffering in Eastern Ghouta, Syria: a call for action to protect civilians and health care
Article initially published in The Lancet issue 10123, volume 391 (March 3, 2018) on February 26, 2018 and written by...
Syria, the UN and humanitarian aid
Letter to the editor published in The Irish Times on July 5, 2018 and written by Annie Sparrow. Sir, – The UN's Office...
Delivering aid to the people of Syria
Letter to the editor published in The Irish Times on June 30, 2018 and written by Annie Sparrow. Sir, – My aim in...
Health workers and the weaponisation of health care in Syria: a preliminary inquiry for The Lancet – American University of Beirut Commission on Syria
Article initially published in The Lancet on March 14, 2017 and written by Fouad M Fouad, Annie Sparrow, Ahmad...
Abandoning Aleppo: Evacuation of rebel-held areas
from Inside Story Watch report here Buses take fighters and their families out of eastern Aleppo under a fragile...
Born to Fight
A woman carries a son while tending to the wounds of another son inside a field hospital after what activists said was...
Cholera in the time of war: implications of weak surveillance in Syria for the WHO’s preparedness—a comparison of two monitoring systems
Articles initially published in BMJ Journals on July 22, 2016 and written by Annie Sparrow, Khaled Almilaji, Bachir...
Who isn’t equipped for a pandemic or bioterror attack? The WHO
Article initially published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist on June 20, 2016 and written by Annie Sparrow...
The UN’s Role in the Sieges in Syria
Syrian Army soldiers monitor residents who said they have received permission from the Syrian government to leave the...
Aiding Disaster
A girl, who was injured by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar...
The dilemma facing Syrian refugees
The journey for refugees is more perilous than ever as winter sets in across Europe. Watch report here It’s a...
War is the Enemy of Health. Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine in War-Torn Syria
Article initially published in ATS Journales on November 23, 2015 and written by Mohammed Z. Sahloul, Jaber...
Defining Polio: Closing the Gap in Global Surveillance
Article initially published in the Annals of Global Health in 2015 and written by Bachir Tajaldin, Khaled Almilaji,...
Syria: Death from Assad’s Chlorine
Mass graves for the hundreds of civilians who died in sarin attacks on the Syrian town of Zamalka in eastern Ghouta in...
The Truth About the Measles
(Reuters/Brian Snyder) Article initially published in The Nation on March 4, 2015 and written by Annie Sparrow No...
Fighting Polio in Syria: Save the Children Responds
ACU/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Health workers carrying polio vaccine, as part of a vaccination campaign organized by...
Syria: The Other Threat
A health worker giving polio vaccine drops to a child, as part of a vaccination campaign organized by the opposition...
The Truth About Polio in Syria
Article initially published in The New York Review on March 6, 2014 and written by Annie Sparrow in response to Bruce...
Syria’s Polio Epidemic: The Suppressed Truth
Hosam Katan/Reuters A health worker talking with a family in Aleppo before administering polio vaccinations, January...
Doctors on the frontline: we are targets in Syria’s civil war
The victims of civil war doctors are trying to help. Manu Brabo/AP We don’t know the exact details of why Abbas...
Syria’s Assault on Doctors
JM Lopez/AFP/Getty Images A destroyed ambulance in Aleppo, Syria, January 12, 2013 Article initially published in The...
Preventing Medicine: A New Weapon of Mass Destruction
Article initially published in The New Humanitarian on September 16, 2013 and written by Annie Sparrow. Last week, New...