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Global Notebooks XVI: In another state

Iván Zahínos, coordinator of international relations at medicusmundi mediterrània, writes from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is part of the Barcelona delegation that must negotiate a new brotherhood and cooperation agreement between the two cities.
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Global Notebooks XV: Cabo Delgado, cursed mirror of today’s world

It had been a long time that, working in Africa, I had not felt the contradictions, the doubts, and also the anger so strongly. How to restructure a health system, which was already insufficient, in such a volatile and unpredictable reality? Where to build the new centres? H
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Global Notebooks XIV: In memoriam Anil Das Gupta

I could write a book about the feelings that are welling up in me these days. Anil died last Wednesday, unexpectedly. The best teacher is the one who doesn't seem to teach you. I don't even know if Anil was aware that he was changing lives and mentalities.
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Global Notebooks XIII: War in Cabo Delgado

An insurgent group is advancing inexorably from north to south of the province, from east to west, leaving behind devastated villages. It is believed that there have been more than 2.000 deaths and more than 430.000 refugees.
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Global Notebooks XII: On misinformation and savagery

Manipulating information is an old story that new technologies have pushed to unimaginable heights. Borka from Sarajevo work on journalism at the service of the people, ethical, responsible, informative journalism that fights against inequalities.
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Global Notebooks XI – Nowhere

Psychologists say that confinement sharpens fears and can bring out the worst in us. I take refuge in my imaginary city when the walls narrow, the oxygen is lacking and there is an excess of screens. As the days go by, this fantasy becomes more acute.
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Global Notebooks X: Barcelona

I have seen so many avoidable deaths, that now that countries are closing, , I cannot help to feel questioned as a human being and to ask myself what has happened now to have the world paralysed?
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Global Notebooks IX: Sarajevo

The International Relations' Coordinator writes from Sarajevo, city in which MM is working with the Local Democracy Foundation and the Association of Journalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Global Notebooks VIII- Zagreb

3-day meeting of the People's Health Movement in Zagreb where the experiences, successes and disappointments of health systems and health coverage have been shared. Our international relations coordinator Ivan Zahinos explains it to us.
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Global Notebooks VII – Barcelona

Seventh article of opinion of the Coordinator of International Relations written from Barcelona. The patients were piled on stretchers in the emergency corridor while the professionals were not able to respond to all the needs.
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