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Agnes Offenberg retweeted
.#Vaccines, antibiotics, antiviral medications and anti-inflammatory drugs are all associated with a reduced risk of #dementia.
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Music is therapy for our patients in South Sudan ♫
Listen to the music and learn how our teams are improving mental healthcare for people in Lankien 👇
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“Vulnerable newborns and sick and wounded children in need of intensive care are being killed in tents, in incubators and in the arms of their parents.”
Full statement from @UNICEFmena's @AdeleKhodr on the decimation of newborn care in the Gaza Strip: uni.cf/3UGdCm9
ALT The Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza has become a besieged war zone. Its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the last remaining in the north, has reportedly been damaged in heavy attacks in recent days. Access to the hospital is incredibly difficult but reports indicate that children who were treated there have been killed and injured in these attacks and its oxygen and water supplies have been damaged, disrupting critical care for the few still clinging to life inside. - Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa
Agnes Offenberg retweeted
Je 18e verjaardag hoort groot feest te zijn, maar voor sommige jongeren is het een nachtmerrie.
Ze verliezen hun vertrouwde hulpverleners en belanden soms zelfs op straat.
Daarom álle steun voor de oproep: haal de harde grens van 18 uit de jeugdwet! 🙌🏽
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ALT Groepsfoto net buiten de deur van de Tweede Kamer met 8 personen: een mix van volwassenen en jongeren. Ik sta ergens in het midden en hou een bord omhoog met het manifest. Een van de jongeren houdt ook een groot bord omhoog. Het is een vrolijke foto.
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The new @WHO report on #tuberculosis (TB) shows:
- 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with TB in 2023 – the highest number recorded since 1995;
- TB-related deaths declined for a second consecutive year, as access to services continues to improve;
- multidrug-resistant TB remains a serious challenge.
The fact that TB still kills and sickens so many people is an outrage, when we have the tools to prevent, detect, treat, and #EndTB.
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Shortly after the @WHO-led mission to Kamal Adwan Hospital yesterday, the facility's third floor was reportedly hit again, injuring six children who are patients there. One child sustained a critical injury. Water tanks were damaged. Heavy bombardment persisted very close to the hospital, including when WHO was delivering aid.
It is appalling that hospitals in #Gaza continue to be attacked, patients continue to be harmed, and health workers and humanitarians continue to work under life-threatening conditions.
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Iran’s authorities must immediately & unconditionally release the university student who was violently arrested on 2 Nov after she removed her clothes in protest against abusive enforcement of compulsory veiling by security officials at Tehran's Islamic Azad University. 1/2
Agnes Offenberg retweeted
The situation unfolding in northern #Gaza is apocalyptic.
I join the @iascch leaders in urging, yet again, all parties fighting in Gaza to protect civilians, and call on #Israel to cease its assault on Gaza and on the humanitarians trying to help — there is no alternative to @UNRWA.
Our full statement:
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Energetic start to #GNLI Day 5 with presentations and group discussions by @WHO regions on storytelling and effective messaging, as well as best practices on interviewing and communicating at the top tables. @djmasonrn #nursingleadership
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A fabulous group of #GNLI2024 scholars who I am absolutely confident will provide transformational nursing leadership because I’ve seen and heard what they have already achieved.
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#GNLI #Geneva week Day 6 begins with enthusiastic scholars’ mock presentations of regional projects followed by sessions on Influencing the #globalhealth agenda & The global #healthcareworkforce, as well as GNLI Alumni panel discussions ! @djmasonrn @maggedyann #nursingleadership
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Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda outlines his plan to force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions.
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Medical needs are overwhelming in Gaza. In the four weeks since opening our second field hospital in Deir Al Balah, we carried out 10,962 outpatient consultations, 40% of whom were children under 14. Today, our teams expanded activities to include paediatric hospitalisation.
We already see many children suffering from skin and respiratory tract infections - a direct result of the dire living conditions in the overcrowded camps. With winter approaching, we anticipate being overwhelmed by the number of severely ill children requiring specialised care.
“We are treating children with illnesses related to their dire living conditions, but when they leave the hospital, they return to the same place that is making them ill. It’s a vicious cycle that can only improve with a ceasefire now,” says Sakib Burza, MSF Hospital Director.
Getting enough medical supplies into Gaza to open the paediatric activities has been extremely complicated. Israeli authorities must urgently simplify and speed up administrative procedures to be able to get aid through Gaza as people desperately need it.
Field hospitals are not a solution, but a last resort in response to Israel’s destruction of the healthcare system. Almost 100,000 people have been injured since the beginning of the war while only 17 out of 36 hospitals are now partially functioning.
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WHO has reported 516 attacks on healthcare in Gaza over the past year. Any fighting, bombings and shelling in the immediate vicinity or grounds of a hospital are unacceptable. MSF calls on all warring parties to protect medical staff, health facilities and patients at all times.
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This comes one day after an Israeli airstrike hit a mosque right next to the hospital. Over the past months, the Al Aqsa hospital compound and its surroundings have been repeatedly hit, while it is one of the only 17 hospitals still partially functional in the Strip.
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In the early hours of October 7, the compound of the MSF-supported Al Aqsa hospital, Deir Al Balah, was once again hit by an Israeli strike, while another strike hit a tent in the street only a dozen metres away from the hospital. 8 people injured in these strikes were treated at the hospital.