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UN health agency urges nations to donate 250 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
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Some two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been distributed globally but only 0.5 per cent have reached low-income countries where frontline health workers and the elderly have yet to…
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Originally written by Xurxo Melchor, for La Voz de Galicia, in Spanish. The organisation's board of directors stresses that Emilio González Fernández's behaviour is not in line with the ethical…
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The WHO Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge recently visited a number of countries in the European Region, as COVID-19 vaccines continue to be rolled out, offering…
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Critical health facilities across Africa risk being overwhelmed by surging COVID-19 infections, the UN health agency said on Thursday.
Europe
The Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly, held on 24–31 May 2021, was once again dominated by discussions on responding to the short- and longer-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and on…
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The use of coercion and force continue to be common practice in European psychiatry despite efforts to decrease their use. Recent studies have looked at the patient’s viewpoints of the…
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The still legally accepted possibility of using coercion and force in psychiatry is a very controversial issue. It is not only widespread but indicators and statistics from various European countries…
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The first in the world was Serbia, which gives 25 euros to each of its vaccinated citizens. President Aleksandar Vucic explained that the aim of the initiative is to encourage…
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On World Bicycle Day, celebrated on 3 June, WHO highlights a new master plan that calls countries to acknowledge cycling as an equal mode of transport and to double the…
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Friday (28 May 2021) United Nations human rights experts called upon the Council of Europe to withdraw a possible new legal instrument that would maintain an approach to mental health policy and…
