Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza, the West Bank/East Jerusalem, and Lebanon - June 6, 2026
Doctors Against Genocide invites you to join an urgent webinar
This Sunday, June 7th, 2026 at 12PM ET
They are honored to welcome Dr. Mohamad Saqr head of Nursing at Nasser Medical Complex and Hasan Tahrawi, a brilliant nurse from Gaza, who will speak about the Nursing Academy, nursing practice under siege, and the powerful new book documenting the courage, skill, and resilience of nurses in Gaza. Their reflections will help us understand how nurses continue to sustain life, teach, lead, and care despite the destruction of the health system around them.
They will also be joined by Rasha Ajrami, a Gaza entrepreneur and business leader, educator Najia Mahmoud Abuallroos, and musician, Ahmed Muin Abu Amsha
From JVP Health Advisory Council
As a reminder, we are changing the way in which we organize and share peer-reviewed health-related literature on Palestine. We created thematic article collections that are stored in PubMed to make searching and filtering easier. The collections currently include articles published between January 1, 2026 and June 6, 2026. We are working to add articles published in prior years, and we will update the collections with new articles on a bi-weekly basis.
Publications from the past two weeks include:
Maternal and neonatal outcomes in a cohort of pregnant women during conflict, Gaza Strip
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
This study assessed maternal and neonatal outcomes among 17,713 refugee women in the Gaza Strip who were pregnant on October 8, 2023. The pregnancy-related mortality ratio was 948 per 100,000 pregnancies, compared to a maternal mortality ratio of 30 per 100,000 live births prior to October 7, 2023. The stillbirth rate among women with known pregnancy outcomes was 10.3 per 1,000 births compared with 6.0 per 1,000 prior to October 7, 2023, the neonatal mortality rate was 9.4 per 1,000 live births compared with 6.6 per 1,000, and the preterm birth rate was 13.6% versus 9.7%. "The study provides evidence that the conflict in the Gaza Strip severely affected maternal health outcomes and patterns of access to health care."
HIV in Gaza: From Chronic Under-Detection to Acute Collapse
Journal of the International AIDS Society
This commentary discusses how "HIV in Gaza has shifted from a chronically under-recognized condition to a fully obscured emergency." The authors note that "as of March 2026, ART was available in approximately 2% of all health service institutions in Gaza, with only 12 of the 52 facilities expected to provide this service currently offering it." "ART interruption increases the risk of viral rebound, opportunistic infections, drug resistance and mortality among PLHIV. At the population level, treatment gaps undermine prevention efforts by increasing the likelihood of onward transmission. In addition, the absence of routine antenatal testing threatens to reverse progress in preventing vertical transmission of HIV."
Additional articles can be found in the following collections:
Hospitals, health care, and health infrastructure
Public health and medical workforce
Institutional silence, repression, and complicity
Infectious and communicable disease
You can still access our article summaries for articles published between April 2025 – March 2026 here.