Violence and threats against health facilities and workers, both in peacetime and during armed conflict, and the criminalisation of medical care, such as abortion care, limit access to health services and result in worse health outcomes for millions of people around the world.1,2 Combatants', governments', and the international community's abdication of responsibility to protect health workers and facilities subjects physicians, nurses, and other health personnel to verbal and physical attack and leads to needless patient deaths. As leaders of medical and nursing organisations and researchers in the field, we share the conviction that attacks against health personnel anywhere should be a matter of concern for health professionals everywhere.