We are delighted to announce that HIFA have joined the International Confederation of Midwives, Commonwealth Nurses & Midwives Federation and WaterAid in campaigning for quality healthcare for all through water, sanitation and hygiene in all health facilities.

You can find out more about the Healthy Start campaign here: 

We are very pleased to announce that the CHIFA Powerpoint presentation (which explains CHIFA's vision and activities, its breadth of membership, and reasons to join), is now available in Indonesian, Arabic, French, Spanish, Serbian, Hausa! (Nigeria) and Dutch. Our thanks to: Jum'atil Fajar, Abdel-Moneim Minshawi, Martin Yakum, Mirjana Radovanovic, Hafsat Rufai Ahmad, and Wout Devlies (who are all CHIFA Country Representatives), as well as Raul Mercer and Gonca Yilmaz (who are both CHIFA Working Group members).

New! CHIFA Webinar: Vaccination and Child Rights, 7th October 2016, 13.00 GMT

Organised by the CHIFA Steering Group in association with the International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP)

See below for details on how to connect to the webinar. We thank the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Argentina, for technical hosting.

Speakers: Gonca Yilmaz, Rita Nathawad

Facilitator: Tony Waterston
Duration: 45 mins (talk 30 mins, discussion 15 mins)

We are very grateful to Lord Nigel Crisp for putting two parliamentary questions to the UK Government, further to a request by the BMA:

Question 1:
"To ask Her Majesty’s Government what actions they are taking to increase access to information about health and health care for both members of the public and health workers globally." (HL1817) 

Tabled on: 12 September 2016

Response:
Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Department for International Development):