Health

The historic survey, funded within the framework of the WHO/Europe project with the European Commission, coinciding with World Mental Health Day, analyzed almost 100,000 responses from 29 countries, from October 2024 to April of this year. The key finding is that doctors and nurses work in conditions that harm their mental health and well-being, which…

“I saw people fleeing, so I joined them,” Yuri, 88, remembers the day he left Ukraine. “I arrived in Moldova alone, with no family or children to turn to.” Most days, Yuri spends time in the courtyard of a community mental health center in Chisinau, participating in therapeutic activities that help him manage his emotions…

Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, said Gaza’s health services had been left “shattered” after two years of conflict and “on the brink of total collapse”. “When the fighting stops, a new fight will begin: rebuilding Gaza’s health system and rescuing an entire population from the brink of famine and despair.“he told…

According to the latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the use of tobacco published on Monday, which analyzes smoking trends between 2010 and 2024 and concludes that the epidemic is far from finishing. The use of tobacco has fallen from 26.2 percent in 2010 to 19.5 percent last year, and the UN…

“These injuries that change life represent a quarter of all reported lesions, of a total of more than 167,300 people injured since October 2023,” said Rik Peeperkorn, representative of the Western Occisora ​​and Gaza. More than 5,000 people have faced amputation and other serious injuries to the arms, legs and spinal cord. Informing journalists in…

And because health spending is also under pressure worldwide, it should be a priority to develop so -called combined vaccines, the panel insisted. The OMS immunization head, Dr. Kate O’Brien, emphasized that the MMR soap combination that protects against measles, papers and rubella, is safe for children. ‘Significant risks’ “What is really critical is that…

Um Muhammad al-Masri, displaced from the northern city of Beit Hanoun, never releases its asthma inhaler. She says she would die without that. The smoke fills its store, where it directs a primitive oven fed by the garbage. “I was prescribed medicine, but I couldn’t pay it, so Unrwa (the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees)…

When his 11-year-old daughter, Noel-Dina, was beaten by unbearable fever and abdominal pain, Oriata did not hesitate. He immediately took his son to the nearest hospital. “I couldn’t walk anymore because I was very weak. I had to take her on my back. I was terribly worried and I thought I was going to lose…

The study, conducted by Gavi, the Vaccina Alliance, in collaboration with the Burnet Institute of Australia, and published in the Global Health British Medical Journal, He analyzed 210 outbreaks in 49 low -income countries for a period of 23 years. He found that the rapid deployment of the vaccine during the sprouts of anger, ebola,…

Lenacapavir injectable-Len, for abbreviation, is an antiretroviral alternative of highly effective prolonged action to daily oral pills and other shorter action options, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “While an HIV vaccine is still difficult, Lenacapavir is the best option: an antiretroviral of prolonged action that is shown in the tests to prevent almost…