The history of health and nutrition
in the Republic of Iraq

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The social history in general of the Republic of Iraq

Evaluation of food and nutrition situation in Iraq

Terminal statement prepared for the Government of Iraq by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1995. Conclusions and Recommendations. The situation throughout the country is increasingly disastrous with economic decline spreading across almost all sectors of Iraqi society. Of particular concern is the ability of the country to feed itself and to provide a quality system of health care.

Crisis Grows In Iraq: Res. 986 Delays Continue Collapse of Medical Syst

National People's Campaign, press release, 6 March 1997. The Anti-Sanctions Project of the International Action calls for an immediate end to the sanctions against Iraq which have resulted in the deaths of more than 1.4 million Iraqi civilians, over 750,000 of them children under the age of five.

Letter to Gulf War Syndrome Organizations and Contacts

From Gordon Poole, 15 May 1997. Concerning long-term consequences of US war for health in Iraq. It is scandalous that Allied authorities (USA, UK) knowingly held back information that would have enabled veterans to better understand and cure their war-derived health problems, but also that the lies and the indifference of these authorities towards the health situation in the Gulf area (Kuwait, Iraq) have prevented an effective diagnosis of the syndrome.

UN sanctions—Weapons of mass destruction against Iraq

By Ramsey Clark, Pacific News Service, 21 November 1997. Since UN sanctions were imposed in 1990, the health of the people deteriorate steadily and drastically. A human disaster in the making. Diseases related to malnutrition have increased some twentyfold. diseases linked to poor sanitation continue to spread at extraordinary rates. A striking increase in mortality, particularly among children.

The evidence lies dying in Basra

By Robert Fisk in Beirut, Independent (London), 25 January 2000. In the main Basra teaching hospital, cancer sufferers who live near where depleted uranium shells (DU) were fired in 1991 queue at the cancer clinic each morning. When Iraq asked the World Health Organisation to investigate DU two years ago, a team of experts arrived to see if such a study was feasible; but no investigation took place.

Report from Iraq re public health

By Charlie Clements, portside list, 12 February 2003. 10-day emergency mission to Iraq to assess the vulnerability of the civilian population to another war. The population of Iraq has been reduced to the status of refugees. Nearly 60 percent of Iraqis, or almost 14 million people, depend entirely on a government-provided food ration that, by international standards, represents the minimum for human sustenance. Unemployment.