The issue focused on the human cost of the international response to the crisis in Syria, and the political and economic impact of the political solution. The World Health Organization  has just released a report on the health of the population of Syria, and the country's health system. The report is the first to make a direct link between the number of people on the front line of the civil war and the number of those who have died. The report's author, Dr Zawia Jafari, is a medical doctor