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Somewhere right now, a patient is waiting. Waiting for insulin, for chemotherapy, or for the medication that keeps them alive. And somewhere, a road is flooded, a port is shut down, or a factory has lost power because of a storm no one was ready for. These aren't separate problems. They're the same crisis. At the #WHA79 in Geneva, Health Care Without Harm joined Unitaid and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to talk about what this looks like on the ground. Extreme weather disasters are breaking the supply chains that deliver medicine to patients. And the people hit hardest are always those who were already vulnerable. That's where Abdul-Fatawu Salifu, Unitaid Communities delegation and Ghana CCM Youth Representative, a patient and youth health advocate from Ghana, told his story. Not as a statistic, but as someone who has lived it. What makes this even harder to sit with is that healthcare itself depends heavily on fossil fuels. The way we make, package, and ship medicine is tied to the very pollution driving these disasters. We are paying for the fossil fuel crisis with our health. We need a supply chain that protects both human health and the planet, and does not leave patients or the workers who serve them behind. That is what a just transition in health has to mean. This has been a defining season for that conversation. From the World Health Assembly to the UN Climate Negotiations in #Bonn (SB62) soon. From #LCAW to #CleanMed Europe. And this Thursday, June 4, when Health Care Without Harm and the Global Climate and Health Alliance launch a new policy paper on multilateral pathways to just and healthy transitions. The work continues. 🎥 Share this video if you want to help us keep doing it.

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