STOP PRESS ISSOP urges all paediatricians and child health workers to disseminate and seek endorsement of this Declaration ISSOP Declaration on Conflict of Interest and Funding from the Baby Food Industry has been published and is available for download here. An accompanying letter for use in seeking endorsement of the Declaration by your association/society can be downloaded here ...
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ISSOP e-bulletin 37 (January 2019) is now published and can be downloaded at https://www.issop.org/cmdownloads/issop-e-bulletin-37-jan-19/ Get up-to-date with all the news, controversies and forthcoming events
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The Lancet has published a commentary by ISSOP EC member Tony Waterston and Professor Charlotte Wright from Glasgow which takes to task the national paediatric associations that accept funding from manufacturers of breast milk substitutes for education, training or research purposes. See https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32845-9/fulltext The Egyptian conference organised by the RCPCH which was mentioned in the Lancet received much adverse publicity owing to its sponsorship by many formula companies, and this was reported in the BMJ and the Guardian. Hence the announcement by the RCPCH on 13th Feb that it...
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STOP PRESS To register and submit abstracts and for full details of ISSOP 2019 meeting in Beirut you can access the webpage at: http://partnershipforchildhealth.org/issop/
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Held jointly with the 5th National Congress of the Turkish Society for Social Pediatrics, this international congress of Eurasian social pediatricians represented a significant initial step in the formation of an active regional social pediatric group encompassing Turkey, which straddles Europe and Asia, and Central Asian and Indian sub-continent countries. The Congress opened with a moving video message from one of the founders of Turkish social paediatrics, Professor Olcay Neyzi on the history of social pediatrics in Turkey which complemented my presentation on the history of social pediatrics globally. Professor Sarah Blunden from...
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