Mukesh Kapila
@mukeshkapila.bsky.social
Author and writer: Humanitarian, Human Rights, Development, War and Peace. Ex UN, WHO, Red Cross Red Crescent, UK Government. Professor Emeritus Univ of Manchester
Who gives up the gun first? The Trump Plan, caught btw Hamas disarmament & Israel withdrawal is squeezing the life out of people of Gaza stuck in-between. Will they learn obvious lessons from many other war-peace processes? My column at the National News www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comm...
Who gives up the gun first? Gaza’s path to peace lies in learning how other wars ended | The National
Lessons from failed peace deals could save the Palestinian enclave
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As the noise and dust settle over UNGA81 - my thoughts for what they are worth as extracted by the colourful Ireti Bakare-Yusuf host of her Borderlines chat show on NigeriainfoFM: Can the United Nations Survive a Fragmented World? www.youtube.com/live/aXTSynj...
#Borderlines - UNGA 81: Can the United Nations Survive a Fragmented World?
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#DRC's #Ebola: how many agencies responding, how many they employ, how much money? Dont know but we have 16 coordination mechanisms, 8 clusters, 11 pillars, 3 plans, 5 appeals.But virus does not coordinate. Part2 of my analysis @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/drcs-ebola-o...
DRC’s Ebola Outbreak: The Vast Mobilisation That Doesn’t Measure Itself (Part II) - Health Policy Watch
The world has ridden fast to rescue DRC from Ebola. But four months on, nobody can say for sure how many agencies are responding, how many people they employ,
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Issue #6: Vital Signs in Global Health by Prof. @mukeshkapila.bsky.social DRC’s Ebola outbreak became the largest late detection in recorded history. Early warning signals were available, but action came too slowly as transmission accelerated. 📰➡️ healthpolicy-watch.news/drcs-ebola-l...
DRC’s Ebola Lessons: Learned And Unlearned (Part I) - Health Policy Watch
The lethality of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is not just in its genome. Neither is it entirely explained by the country’s
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Why such heavy weather controlling Ebola outbreak in DRC? Plenty of blame floating about on who/what responsible. But what do data indicate? And were past lessons learnt? This is Part I analysis of my deep dive - in hope of improvements healthpolicy-watch.news/drcs-ebola-l...
DRC’s Ebola Lessons: Learned And Unlearned (Part I) - Health Policy Watch
The lethality of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is not just in its genome. Neither is it entirely explained by the country’s
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Are today's warring leaders just sick - mentally & physically? Would healing them bring world peace? How? My life-changing conversation with Sid Chatterjee, trauma survivor, soldier, diplomat, humanitarian, biohacker- in latest FadingCauses podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1wT...
EPISODE 23: Can Biohacking Bring World Peace? with Sid Chatterjee
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Issue #5: Vital Signs by Prof. @mukeshkapila.bsky.social Afghans are trapped between two sets of convictions: Taliban restrictions that cripple healthcare & Western policies that withdraw support. Neither side pays the price. Ordinary Afghans do. 📰➡️ healthpolicy-watch.news/clashing-con... 🔁🙏
Arguing to legitimise or not the Taliban is fatal political posturing while doing little practically on tried-and-tested ways to keep people in Afghanistan alive. My latest Global Health 'Vital Signs' piece: healthpolicy-watch.news/clashing-con...
Clashing Convictions Of Taliban And The West Is Costing Afghan Lives - Health Policy Watch
Two sets of dogmas contend in Afghanistan: those of the Taliban and the West. Neither side pays the real price for their beliefs. Ordinary Afghans do with
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Around 17 million people die each year for want of basic surgical attention. That's six times the toll from the three grand iconic diseases: HIV,TB, Malaria. Why is surgery the 'neglected stepchild' of global health? My latest column @thenationalnews.com www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comm...
The neglected knife: Why global health overlooks surgery | The National
Billions of people still lack access to safe, affordable surgery, even as the world spends vast sums on other global health priorities
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Issue #4 of @mukeshkapila.bsky.social Vital Signs in Global Health Fauci’s final service may be unintended: a warning to the rest of the world about the dangers of politicised health accountability — & an argument for stronger, independent institutions. 📰➡️ healthpolicy-watch.news/fauci-the-or...
Chief Medical Adviser to world's most powerful leaders Anthony Fauci refused to tell Senate committee on the Covid pandemic what color tie he was wearing. Was he principled or arrogant? And what achieved? My Vital Signs column @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/fauci-the-or...
Fauci: The Oracle Who Went Silent At The Wrong Time - Health Policy Watch
Twenty-five democracies managed to examine their COVID pandemics without smashing their national crockery. The United States produced a partisan committee and
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Issue #3 of @mukeshkapila.bsky.social Vital Signs in Global Health Eighteen months into the dismantling of the global AIDS response, how many people have died? The honest answer: nobody knows. @iasociety.bsky.social @aidsconference.bsky.social @unaids.org @aidshealthcare.bsky.social 📖 ⬇️ & 🔁🙏
The HIV Deaths Nobody Can Count - Health Policy Watch
VITAL SIGNS COLUMN: Eighteen months into the dismantling of the global AIDS response, how many have died? The honest answer is that nobody knows. Rio’s
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The Refugees Convention is 75. Helped past millions. Now is anyone giving even a half cheer as it half-fails Sudan, Afghanistan, Rohingya Gaza etc? Do refugees still justify special status or time to re-think migration generally? READ my piece at National News www.mukeshkapila.org/after-75-yea...
Sudan: we hear that the road Khartoum-El Obeid is now under SAF control. Does it mean El Obeid's million+ in desperate need safe now? Depends on if military business or humanitarian flows are prioritised and how RSF fight back. My remarks at RTWorld: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkVt...
Sudan’s El Obeid residents trapped amid intense RSF drone attacks
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Issue 2 of my Vital Signs in Global Health column: What got my pulse racing were first, the shenanigans around trillions$ food industry and billions$ obesity meds business & meanwhile Ebola outruns hollowed-out WHO. Read @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/markets-offe...
Markets Offer Costly Cures While Courts Ensnare Prevention; Meanwhile Ebola Response Stumbles - Health Policy Watch
That also raises a question for those seeking to succeed Dr Tedros next year as Director General. How can that high office allow its holder to shape events
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Do major catastrophes change history or do nations just absorb the shock & stumble on? I look at this old political question at E-International Relations through lessons from other quakes in second of my articles on Venezuela's fork in the road. Which way will it go? www.e-ir.info/2026/07/22/o...
Opinion – The Deepest Fault Line of the Venezuela Earthquake Is Political – E-International Relations
Earthquakes can strip away the pretences behind which weak governments shelter and hand grieving people the clarity of seeing their rulers tested.
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Are we misdiagnosing violence/wars? What if they spread like contagious diseases eg Covid/Ebola & we could cure/manage them with same public health tools even in Sudan, Gaza, Congo etc? Dr Gary Slutkin’s paradigm-shifting chat on my FadingCauses #podcast. Watch/listen youtube.com/watch?v=1DwZ...
EPISODE 22: Is Violence a Contagious Disease? with Gary Slutkin
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The #Venezuela earthquake response is among the worst worldwide of recent quake responses with many previous lessons unlearnt or deliberately ignored, thereby compounding the original 'natural' tragedy. My thoughts on this in the first of two articles: www.mukeshkapila.org/in-venezuela...
Inside View | Mukesh Kapila Global health has the evidence & the solutions. What it lacks is political priority. Funding cuts & delayed decisions carry a human cost, leaders can no longer afford to treat global health as an afterthought! @mukeshkapila.bsky.social @who.int @ec.europa.eu 📖 ⬇️ & 🔁🙏
Vital Signs: Reading Critical Developments In Global Health - Health Policy Watch
Last week, one phrase — “self-reliance” — did more work in global health than any medicine, as global agencies continue operationalising donor retreats they
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I am experimenting with new regular column @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social on whatever strikes me as interesting or critical in Global Health over preceding week+. I will evolve with experience. Your feedback & suggestions welcome. Here is first edition: healthpolicy-watch.news/vital-signs-...
Vital Signs: Reading Critical Developments In Global Health - Health Policy Watch
Last week, one phrase — “self-reliance” — did more work in global health than any medicine, as global agencies continue operationalising donor retreats they
healthpolicy-watch.news
AI wont save humanitarianism and could it quietly finish hollowing it out? It may sharpen planning, logistics but it cant manufacture a missing food ration. Nor can it make the moral triaging choices of who gets helped. My latest oped for The National News www.mukeshkapila.org/should-we-tr...
For what it is worth - my take on lifr from living the life. theysaidso.org/mukesh-kapil...
WHY ‘NEVER AGAIN’ HAPPENS AGAIN - THEY SAID SO
Mukesh Kapila, Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester
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Two teenage girls in obstructed labour in South Sudan flown to hospital. One reached the operating room in time. One didn't. That margin is the whole story of global surgery. My new Fading Causes conversation with Dr Geoff Ibbotson, CEO of Global Surgery Foundation 🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtZ7...
EPISODE 21: Is Surgery The Neglected Step-Child of Global Health? with Geoff Ibbotson
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One of the world's most pointless elections: Odd how countries slag off the paralysed UN Security Council & then flight tooth-and-claw for a second-class seat on it from which they can posture to no effect. passblue.com/2026/06/03/f...
Five New Countries Elected to the UN Security Council's 2027-28 Term - PassBlue
Five New Countries Elected to the UN Security Council's 2027-28 Term - PassBlue
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Here we go again - Ebola comes back as a Public Health Emergency of International Importance in DRC, Uganda, and potentially threatening other countries in region. Something else to panic about? My short remarks in this TRT interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yI8...
WHO: New strain of Ebola has no vaccine, no specific treatment
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Was the captain premature in concluding the sudden first death on cruise ship was natural when he & ship doctor didnt know man's previous medical history and could not conduct a post mortem either. My remarks via @trtworld Nexus programme #Hantavirüs www.youtube.com/watch?v=afSh...
How The Media Used Hantavirus To Scare Us
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Are we doomed to fight yesterday's battles in global health? So much energy needing expenditure to sooth misinformation, mistrust in public concerns around Hantavirus comparisons with Covid19 when the strategic challenge is elsewhere. My interview alongside others: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pF0...
Should we be worried about the Hantavirus outbreak? | Inside Story
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What’s tormenting #Haiti? Who to blame for its poverty & violence,as colonisation ended 220+yrs ago. But interference didn’t. Is it Haiti’s tragic geography stuck in the groin of the US? I ask expert Michael Deibert in the latest episode of my Fading Causes Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGGC...
EPISODE 20: What Is Tormenting Haiti? with Michael Deibert
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Putting numerals in front of billions and trillions of dollars make the wars more shocking in terms of costs than just getting horrified by the numbers of casualties incurred - such is the way that we get impressed nowadays www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...
The cost of 76 years of US wars, from Korea to Iran
Al Jazeera breaks down the human and financial cost of decades of US-led wars and its latest war on Iran.
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