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www.icanw.org VS VITAL SIGNS I PPNW has launched a new International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. ICAN will bring together medical professionals in the federation’s 60-country network and a global coalition of professional and grassroots organizations to demand a nuclear-weapons-free world through the negotiation and adoption of a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC). I CAN, which got an initial boost with a grant from the Poola Foundation in Australia, models itself after civil society campaigns that successfully led to treaties banning landmines and chemical and biological weapons. “Each of the 27,000 nuclear weapons that exist today are weapons of terror; they are immoral and illegal and their use can never be justified in any con- text for whatever purpose,” said Norwegian physician Bjorn Hilt, the Chair of IPPNW’s Board. This campaign will continue to grow as more people join us in saying ‘ICAN imagine a nuclear- weapons-free future.’” according to campaign coordinator Felicity Hill. In addition to IPPNW’s own affiliate net- work, ICAN partners already include Mayors For Peace, which has launched a parallel Cities Are Not Targets (CANT) campaign; the International Association of Lawyer's Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) and the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP), which have joined IPPNW in producing Securing Our Survival, a revised edition of the case for a Model NWC; and the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, which is organizing a worldwide series of “Reverence for Life” concerts to com- memorate Dr. Schweitzer’s April 23, 1957 Declaration of Conscience and his call for a halt to nuclear testing. W hile the abolition of nuclear weapons, from IPPNW’s perspective, is a medical and moral imperative, it can only be achieved through a carefully imple- mented policy framework. ICAN’s policy demands include negotiation of a Nuclear Weapons Convention; an immediate halt to the upgrading, modernizing, and testing of new nuclear weapons; taking existing nuclear weapons off high alert; a pledge by every nuclear weapon state never to initiate a nuclear exchange (“No First Use”); and the expansion of nuclear-weapon-free zones around the world. VITAL SIGNS VOLUME 18 ISSUE 2 2007 NEWSLETTER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PHYSICIANS FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR (IPPNW) IPPNW LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUKES I CAN imagine a nuclear-weapons free future. VOL. 18 ISSUE 2 2007 The new ican website will contain campaign materials, updates on global activities, and other resources to help abolition activists participate in IPPNW’s global effort to achieve a future no longer threatened by the horror of nuclear war. WWW.IPPNW.ORG

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IPPNW has launched a newInternational Campaign to AbolishNuclear Weapons. ICAN will bring

together medical professionals in thefederation’s 60-country network and aglobal coalition of professional andgrassroots organizations to demand anuclear-weapons-free world throughthe negotiation and adoption of aNuclear Weapons Convention (NWC).

ICAN, which got an initial boost witha grant from the Poola Foundationin Australia, models itself after civil

society campaigns that successfullyled to treaties banning landmines andchemical and biological weapons.“Each of the 27,000 nuclear weaponsthat exist today are weapons of terror;they are immoral and illegal and theiruse can never be justified in any con-text for whatever purpose,” saidNorwegian physician Bjorn Hilt, theChair of IPPNW’s Board.

“This campaign will continue to growas more people join us in saying‘ICAN imagine a nuclear-

weapons-free future.’” according tocampaign coordinator Felicity Hill. Inaddition to IPPNW’s own affiliate net-work, ICAN partners already includeMayors For Peace, which haslaunched a parallel Cities Are NotTargets (CANT) campaign; theInternational Association of Lawyer'sAgainst Nuclear Arms (IALANA) andthe International Network ofEngineers and Scientists AgainstProliferation (INESAP), which havejoined IPPNW in producing SecuringOur Survival, a revised edition of thecase for a Model NWC; and theAlbert Schweitzer Fellowship, whichis organizing a worldwide series of“Reverence for Life” concerts to com-

memorate Dr. Schweitzer’s April 23,1957 Declaration of Conscience andhis call for a halt to nuclear testing.

While the abolition of nuclearweapons, from IPPNW’sperspective, is a medical

and moral imperative, it can only beachieved through a carefully imple-mented policy framework. ICAN’spolicy demands include negotiationof a Nuclear Weapons Convention;an immediate halt to the upgrading,modernizing, and testing of newnuclear weapons; taking existingnuclear weapons off high alert; apledge by every nuclear weaponstate never to initiate a nuclearexchange (“No First Use”); and theexpansion of nuclear-weapon-freezones around the world.

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a $20,000 grant from thePloughshares Fund to conducthealth surveys and health educationin indigenous communities affectedby uranium mining and milling at theJadugoda mines in northeast India.The Jadugoda mine is the onlydomestic source of uranium forIndia’s nuclear reactors and nuclearwarheads. Cancers and reproductivehealth problems have been widelyobserved, but poorly documented,among Adivasi populations who liveand work near the mines. The Indiangovernment and the mine operator,Uranium Corporation of India Ltd,have steadfastly refused to acknowl-edge the problem, conduct properhealth studies, or provide treatmentand compensation for the victims.IDPD’s work in Jadugoda, led by Dr.Satyajit Kumar Singh, will strengthenthe capacity of these local communi-ties to address the health and envi-ronmental issues related to the min-ing operations, while underscoringthe human costs of the nuclear armsrace in South Asia.

BRITAIN UPHOLDS TRIDENT

DESPITE ARDENT PROTESTS

UNITED KINGDOM

The British government’s decisionto replace the UK’s aging Trident

nuclear weapon system became amajor focus for IPPNW and its affili-ates in the first half of 2007. A brief-ing paper produced by UK-affiliateMedact challenged the rationales forTrident replacement offered in a Blairadministration white paper, anddescribed the medical conse-quences of a nuclear explosion assmall as one kiloton—a yield thegovernment has suggested could bethe lower limit for the new system.Medact members joined a coalitionof Trident opponents in February fordemonstrations at the Trident sub-marine base in Faslane, Scotland,while IPPNW affiliates in other coun-tries wrote to British embassies urg-ing that the UK become the first ofthe original five nuclear weaponstates to abandon nuclear weapons.US medical student Tova Fullerorganized an online petition to BritishMPs on the eve of a hastily

announced Parliamentary debate,and obtained more than 300 signa-tures from physicians, medical stu-dents, and other Trident opponentsin a matter of days. On March 14,Parliament voted 409-161 to supportTrident replacement. In a statementfollowing the vote, IPPNW said that“The decision to extend the UK’sTrident nuclear weapons systemuntil 2055 will undermine efforts bythe international community to con-trol the spread of nuclearweapons….[W]hat this really comesdown to is a refusal by the BritishGovernment, now with the blessingof Parliament, to give up its power toinflict catastrophic levels of instanta-neous death and environmentaldestruction on innocent human pop-ulations.”

ADDRESSING THE HEALTH

RISKS OF URANIUM MINING

INDIA

Indian Doctors for Peace and

Development (IDPD), IPPNW’sIndian affiliate and the host of the2008 World Congress, has received

IPPNW WORLD NOTES GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF PEACEMAKERSMAKING A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE

PHOTO: IPPNW EUROPEANSTUDENT ACTIVISTS ATCONFERENCE IN ITALY

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AFFILIATES IN ACTION

BLOCKADE AT FASLANE: 27 MEDACT DOC-TORS - MOSTLY FROM SCOTLAND AND ENG-LAND AND THREE MEDICAL STUDENTS FROM

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AIMING FOR PREVENTION PLENARY SES-SION AT THE HELSINKI WORLD CONGRESS

THE IMMUTABLE BOND AND CAMARADERIE

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BECOMES APPARENT AT THE HELSINKI CON-GRESS. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, IPPNW

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weapons, this example of doctor-to-doctor diplomacy—long a trademarkof IPPNW—could serve as a modelfor more constructive engagement inthis volatile region of the world.

NEW AFRICAN REGIONAL

OFFICE LAUNCHES GUN FREE

AFRICA CAMPAIGN

AFRICAN REGION

IPPNW has new regional leadershipin Nairobi, Kenya led by African VicePresident Dr. Walter Odhiambo,assisted by new Regional OfficeCoordinator Racheal Gitau.

The new African regional office hasundertaken an ambitious agenda,including an African regionalnewsletter whose first edition hasalready been published, a regionalweb site, and a creative new GunFree Africa campaign, alreadyunderway with ambassadors suchas Miss India Kenya who is a physi-cian, and popular singer Gidigidi.

Additional plans include an AfricanRegional Conference scheduled forNairobi in September 2007 entitledHealing The Wounds Of War In Africa'The Role Of Health Professionals',which will bring together Africanhealth professionals to present andshare experiences on the impact ofwar on health, with a view to pre-scribing preventive strategies whilefocusing on care and rehabilitation ofthe victims, preceded by an Africanmedical students conference. Theregion also has a goal to develop twoadditional affiliates this year inRwanda and the Sudan.

PAHO, the Ministry of Health, Oxfamand IANSA. IPPNW/Mexico’s Dr.Jans-Fromow Guerra and IPPNW’sAiming for Prevention program coor-dinator Maria Valenti also gave pre-sentations at the Student Congress.

Dr. Emperatriz Crespin of ElSalvador and Diego Zavala of PuertoRico introduced the WHO “TEACH-VIP” violence and injury preventioncurriculum at medical schools in theirrespective countries.

SLMK DOCTORS SEE IRAN’S

WAR VICTIMS FIRST-HAND

IRAN

Physicians and medical studentsfrom IPPNW’s Swedish affiliate,SLMK, made a long-anticipated visitto Tehran from January 20-23, 2007.Led by Co-President GunnarWestberg, the six-person delegationwas invited to Iran by the Society forthe Chemical Weapons VictimsSupport (SCWVS), which arrangedvisits for the SLMK leaders to threehospitals and rehabilitation centersfor war victims, including many withlung injuries from mustard gas andother chemical-induced injuries. TheIranian physicians plan to form anew organization within SCWVS thathopes to apply for affiliation withIPPNW later this year. With globalconcerns running high about Iran’snuclear research programs and itsintentions regarding nuclear

AMERICAN DOCTORS PLACE AD

TARGETING CONGRESS

UNITED STATES

US affiliate Physicians for Social

Responsibility (PSR) took out a full-page advertisement in the 2007Congressional Quarterly urging USlegislators to oppose military actionagainst Iran. Under the headline “Ifyou like war in Iraq…you’ll love waron Iran,” the ad criticized the Bushadministration for refusing to rule outthe use of nuclear weapons againstIran and called for direct talks withthe country’s leaders, asserting that“the American people want diploma-cy, not another war.”

STUDENT ACTIVISTS IN LATIN

AMERICA SPEAKING OUT

EL SALVADOR

Medical students from El Salvadororganized and participated withpeers from Nicaragua in a lively andinformative four-day Latin AmericanMedical Student Congress at theNational University of El Salvador inOctober 2006, with featured speak-ers including representatives from

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DIALOGUES IN ISLAMABAD

IN PHOTO, FROM LEFT: GERMAN MEDICAL STUDENT INGA BLUM;TIPU SULTAN, PRESIDENT, PAKISTAN DOC-TORS FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT;IPPNW PROGRAM DIRECTOR JOHN LORETZ;MOHAMMEDMIAN SOOMRO, CHAIR, PAK-ISTAN SENATE; ALI AFRIDI (PDPD).P

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DISARMAMENT ROUNDTABLE

RUSSIA

Russian Physicians for thePrevention of Nuclear War participat-ed in round table discussions at theMinistry of Foreign Affairs in Moscowin March. The Department forSecurity, Arms Control andDisarmament brought togetherabout 20 high-level career diplomatswith leaders of a number of Russianand international NGOs to exchangeviews on nuclear disarmament, pro-liferation, and other security issues.IPPNW Regional Vice PresidentVladimir Garkavenko said he hopedthat “the openness demonstrated bythe MoFA in these discussions andits readiness to more closely interactwith civil society will help us moreeffectively bring our message andaffect the decision-making process.”

NUCLEAR FREE ZONES

DISCUSSED WITH IAEA

VIENNA

IPPNW physicians met in Viennawith Tariq Rauf of the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency (IAEA) onJanuary 24, 2007, to discussprospects for a nuclear weaponsfree zone in the Middle East; IPPNWconcerns about the dual role of theIAEA in both preventing proliferationand promoting nuclear energy; andsupport for renewable energyresources as an alternative tonuclear energy.

MORE HOSPITAL-BASED

FINDINGS ON GUN INJURIES

EL SALVADOR

IPPNW’s affiliate MESARES

(Salvadoran Physicians for SocialResponsibility), working in conjunc-tion with PAHO and UNDP, recentlycompleted a replication of their suc-cessful hospital-based gun injuryresearch in two additionalSalvadoran provinces. Dr. IgnacioPaniagua and others presented theresearch findings at El SalvadorMedical College in January 2007,where they called upon leaders inthe country to focus on bringingpeace to the country, framed by the15th anniversary of the Salvadoranpeace agreements that ended thearmed civil conflict.

PEACE THROUGH HEALTH:

LANDMINES STILL A THREAT

INDIA

Drs. Balkrishna and Nalini Kurvey ofIIPDEP in India completed a 3 monthseries of mine risk awareness semi-nars in the northeast border areas ofIndia where landmine injuries arewidespread and have injured andkilled many of the most vulnerableincluding women and children.

AUSTRIAN MEDICAL STUDENT MINA

LAHLAL; GÜNTHER BAITSCH (PSR /IPPNW SWITZERLAND); TARIQ RAUF;ANDREAS NIDECKER (PSR / IPPNW

SWITZERLAND); ANGELIKA CLAUSSEN

(IPPNW GERMANY); AND KLAUS

RENOLDNER (IPPNW AUSTRIA)

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TO GET INVOLVED TODAY,CONTACT DANIEL KARP

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DIALOGUES IN ISLAMABAD

ON PUBLIC HEALTH AND

DISARMAMENT

PAKISTAN

An IPPNW delegation traveled toIslamabad, Pakistan in January aspart of the Dialogues With DecisionMakers program. The group met withgovernment representatives andnuclear policy experts to press thecase for South Asian leadership onnuclear disarmament, to discuss thestatus of confidence-building meas-ures between Pakistan and India,and to encourage investments in thecountry’s public health services andother social infrastructure as a basisfor long term security. Currently,about 60% of state spending is forthe military, while about 1% or lessgoes to health. While Pakistani offi-cials, including the Minister ofHealth, the Chair of the PakistanSenate, and an arms control expertwith the Ministry of Foreign Affairs allinsisted that Pakistan’s nuclearweapons are strictly for deterrenceagainst India, they said that thecountry will maintain its moratoriumon nuclear tests and will continue towork for a comprehensive FissileMaterials Cutoff Treaty. VS

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In late 2006 Aiming for Preventionlaunched the data collection phase

of IPPNW’s landmark gun injurystudy at hospitals in Uganda,Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, and DRCongo. This followed training ofresearch teams and collection ofpreliminary information last year.Small Arms Survey (SAS), an inde-pendent research project located atthe Graduate Institute ofInternational Studies in Geneva,Switzerland, provided the neededinfusion of funds along withIPPNW/Norway and several privatedonations, to get this importantresearch off the ground. SAS alsoprovided support for a secondaryresearch project focused on docu-menting injuries from gun violenceprior to and post elections in Nigeria.

Teams of IPPNW physicians andmedical students in the five countriesare deeply engaged in the researchin the hospitals, using modern tech-nologically to send data half way

around the world to PrincipalInvestigator Dr. Diego Zavala at thePonce Medical School in PuertoRico. Teams have been interviewingand collecting information fromfirearm victims who present in hospi-tal emergency rooms in cities suchas Nairobi, Kenya; Kisangani, DRCongo; and Kano, Nigeria, enteringthe data into a common survey formand into a dedicated computer withspecialized software at each hospital,and then transmitting it 9,000 milesvia internet to Dr. Zavala for analysis.

The ultimate goal is to constructaggregate profiles of firearm injuryvictims that can help inform who is atrisk from firearm violence and why,and how to prevent such injuries ona country-specific as well as cross-regional basis. The first summary ofthe research will be provided toSmall Arms Survey for the 2008 edi-tion of their prestigious internationalannual report, which will focus onpublic health.

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Ours is a continent of extremes.

Enormous resources exist side by side withextreme scarcity, povertyside by side with abundance and opulence.This has created a fertileground for violence and despair.

The potential is great, yetthe present situationremains grave. Poverty,disease and violence coalesce into a powerfulsynergy against human survival.

Health which is our primary responsibilityremains a wishful mirage for a majority ofinhabitants of our continent. Our role asphysicians is obvious and yet challenging.

IPPNW’s Aiming for Prevention seeks to reduce deathsand injuries from small arms on a global scale.

And in other AfP news…The international Journal of Public HealthPolicy solicited a special section from IPPNWon public health and armed violence in Africa,with a focus on Aiming for Prevention accom-plishments that have policy implications, aswell as IPPNW’s overall campaign approachto small arms and light weapons issues. Aseries of papers is now in development forpublication later this year.

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WALTER ODHIAMBO, MD - KENYABJØRN HILT, MD - NORWAYANTONIO JARQUIN, MD - NICARAGUAAHMED GENEID, MD - EGYPTIRA HELFAND, MD - USAKATSUKO KATAOKA, MD, PHD - JAPANVLADIMIR GARKAVENKO, MD - RUSSIAKAMRUL KHAN, MD - BANGLADESHDANIELE VILIUNAS, MD - AUSTRALIA

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CAECILIE BOCK BUHMANN, MD - DENMARKMARTINA GROSCH, MD - SWEDENANDREW S. KANTER, MD, MPH - USAALEX ROSEN, MD - GERMANYTILMAN RUFF, MB BS, FRACP - AUSTRALIAMASAO TOMONAGA, MD - JAPANLIZ WATERSTON, MD - UK

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES

KHAGENDRA BIKRAM DAHAL - NEPALRUTH MITCHELL - AUSTRALIA

SPEAKER OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL

PETER WILK, MD - USA

DEPUTY SPEAKER

HERMAN SPAANJARD, MD - NETHERLANDS

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

MICHAEL CHRIST - USA

CHAIR, 18TH WORLD CONGRESS

L.S. CHAWLA, MD - INDIA

SECRETARY 18TH WORLD CONGRESS

ARUN MITRA, MD - INDIA

IPPNW Central Office

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IPPNW will hold an international medical conference on thenuclear threat this October in London. “Nuclear Weapons: TheFinal Pandemic—Preventing Proliferation and AchievingAbolition” will be organized in partnership with the Catastrophesand Conflict Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine andIPPNW’s UK affiliate, Medact, and will provide a scientific foun-dation for the federation’s new International Campaign to AbolishNuclear Weapons (ICAN).

The two-day conference program will include plenary sessions onthe climate effects of low-yield, regional nuclear wars; radiationand health; the human impacts of nuclear weapons developmentin existing and new nuclear weapon states; and prescriptions forending the nuclear threat. Expert working groups will be con-vened to develop recommendations for new research, education,and advocacy programs to advance the goal of a nuclear-weapons-free world.

Co-President Gunnar Westberg explained the urgent need toreacquaint the public, the medical profession, policy makers, andthe media with the medical and moral imperative to eliminatenuclear weapons.

“With the collapse of the 2005 NPT Review and subsequent callsfor a renewed civil society campaign to achieve a NuclearWeapons Convention, we urgently need to reestablish IPPNW’smedical message about nuclear war as the central organizingprinciple of the global movement to abolish nuclear weapons.”

For program updates and registration information, please visitwww.ippnw.org or contact John Loretz, 617.868.5050 ext 280,e-mail: [email protected]

Announcing a two-day conference that aims to develop a scientific foundation for the internationalCampaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

International Physicians for the

Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) is a non - partisan federation of national medicalorganizations in 60 countries dedicated to safe-guarding health by working to ban nuclearweapons and to address the impact of mili-tarism and war on human health.

IPPNW is a non - profit organization registeredunder Section 501(c)(3) of the United StatesInternal Revenue Code.

All gifts to IPPNW are tax deductible to thefullest extent allowed by law.

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