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WHO warns of ‘two-track pandemic’ as cases decline but vaccine inequity persists

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Even though COVID-19 cases and deaths have declined in recent weeks, the world is facing a “two-track pandemic”, the UN’s top health official said on Monday in his ongoing campaign to get more vaccines to developing countries. 
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Global push needed to ensure ‘clean, affordable and sustainable electricity’ for all

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During the last decade, more people around the world have gained access to electricity than ever before. However, the number still not connected has grown in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia, according to a new UN report on universal access to energy, launched on Monday. 
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Surveillance and One Health in food production key to halting antimicrobial resistance

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Antimicrobial agents, such as antibiotics, are essential to treating many human and animal infections and diseases.
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Patients see psychiatric restraints as torture

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The widespread use of a variety of coercive measures in psychiatry has a strong and traumatic impact on patients. Stronger than the psychiatric staff actually believe. The European Times reported that studies have looked at...
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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 receive a shot, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Spanish psychiatrist convicted of sexual abuse expelled by medical association

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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 and deontological values of the...
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Regional Director takes European Programme of Work to countries during visits

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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 hope in the fight...
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Risk of COVID-19 surge threatens Africa’s health facilities

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Critical health facilities across Africa risk being overwhelmed by surging COVID-19 infections, the UN health agency said on Thursday.
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Ending this pandemic, preventing the next one: European perspectives at the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly

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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 ensuring that countries, health...
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European psychiatry in bad shape

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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 mental health services. In one...
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Use of coercion and force is widespread in psychiatry

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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 show it is increasing. More...
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You get vaccinated and play tombola

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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 people. Persons over 16...
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Promoting cycling can save lives and advance health across Europe through improved air quality and increased physical activity

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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 level of cycling by...
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Mental health in crisis

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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 practice that is based...
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Amidst COVID surge, Asia-Pacific region needs ‘immediate and stronger support’ 

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With the coronavirus still raging in many parts of the world, the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, warned on Tuesday of vaccine shortages, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, and urged “immediate and stronger support” for the global COVAX initiative for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, “including for refugees and asylum-seekers”. 
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Orthodoxy and modern psychology

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Archpriest Vadim Leonov is a doctor of theology, associate professor, vice-rector for scientific and theological work at the Sretensky Theological Seminary, Moscow. The article is based on a report presented by the author of...
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Council of Europe in big controversy on human rights abuse

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A Committee of the Council of Europe is about to complete the work on a possible new legal instrument, that if approved will authorize states the continued use of practises deemed a violation of...
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The first bicycle ambulances into operation

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The first Turkish bicycle lines were put into operation this week on the "princely" islands of Buyukada and Heibeliada near Istanbul. Equipped with four bicycles, a team will be available to intervene when accidents...
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Commit to Quit smoking this World No Tobacco Day

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Today on May 31, WHO/Europe celebrates World No Tobacco Day. Under the tagline “Commit to Quit”, the aim of this year’s campaign is to support 100 million people worldwide in their attempt to give...
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Ireland leads the way on tobacco cessation programmes

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As a recognized global leader in tobacco control, Ireland has worked hard to develop comprehensive treatment for tobacco dependence. The country’s efforts are underpinned by ambitious goals: it aims to be tobacco free by...
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Drones deliver blood to prevent maternal death in Botswana

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Drones are providing life-saving care to women in remote parts of the southern African country, Botswana, who otherwise may die in childbirth, thanks to support from the United Nations.   
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COVID-19: Pharmaceutical companies urged to support knowledge-sharing platform

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Dramatically increasing global manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments, and ensuring equitable access, is the fastest way to end the pandemic, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. 
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Council of Europe wants to enforce harmful coercive psychiatric treaments – UN experts oppose

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Independent UN human rights experts called on Friday for a European body of intergovernmental experts to stop legislation supporting coercive mental health measures. 
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Europe’s farm fail

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EU governments showed their true colors on reforming the bloc's mammoth farm policy this week — and that color's not green. Four days of negotiations billed as the prime moment to finalize a new Common Agricultural Policy blew up on Friday in a …
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UN chief underlines need to step up COVID-19 vaccine production, equitable distribution

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The world is far from achieving equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, a tragedy that must be avoided at all costs, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday during an online conversation on fair access to these lifesaving treatments. 
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