The Geneva convention www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/…/geneva-conventions/index.jsp has long established firm ethical standards for protection and respect for health care workers and their patients they are serving in conflict regions, during civil unrest or after disasters. Recently in many regions of war and unrest health workers and their patients have come under oppression, attack and abuse. Access to emergency care has been prevented and these civilian health worker groups have become targets. It is well known that children under five and women, especially pregnant women are most vulnerable. The WHO at the Geneva assembly in late Spring 2011, has stepped up alongside the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement to condemn these attacks. http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2011/05/19/who-steps-up-and-addresses-the-issue-of-attacks-on-health-workers-and-facilities/

Both organizations collaborated to take concrete steps to strategize, promote an action plan to stabilize and bring into compliance the groups and nations that have committed these acts. The first response has been to determine best methods to collect data on assaults. This is considered the first critical step. What do you think the next step should be? Who should be involved? Whom or what groups should be leading the efforts? What do you think might be the underlying causes for an escalating breakdown in compliance of this standard? Are the issues local, regional or global? What might be the overall affect on Maternal and Child Health?

Take a peek at this recent BBC news article:BBC Geneva Convention “Laws of War Need Fixing”.

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