Article initially published on July 5, 2020 in the Financial Times and written by Annie Sparrow. Read full article on...
Attacks on Healthcare
Health Care Under Fire
Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images Men inspecting a hospital damaged by an air strike in a rebel-controlled town,...
Putin Is Targeting Ukrainian Hospitals. That’s a War Crime.
Workers attach a banner with a photo of a pregnant woman being carried on a stretcher after the bombing of a maternity...
Bashar al-Assad Is Waging Biological War—By Neglect
Syrian patients receiving treatment in a basement-turned-clinic in the besieged rebel-held town of Douma, on the...
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...
Hypocritic Oath
How WHO and other international agencies aid Assad’s war against Syria’s civilians. Article initially published 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...
“Healthcare is First Casualty of War”: Q&A with Annie Sparrow
Interview initially published in the Global Observatory on May 6, 2016 and written by Els Debuf. Ongoing attacks on...
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...
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...
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...