Health and well-being
Commission des d ?terminants sociaux de la sant ?
Depuis sa nomination, en 1999, en tant que Directrice G ?n ?rale Adjointe aupr ?s de l’Organisation Internationale de la Migration le Professeur Ndioro Ndiaye, se bat pour inscrire la situation des migrants sur l’agenda. Elle vient d’ ?tre nomm ?e commissionnaire de la Commission de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Sant ? pour les d ?terminants sociaux de la sant ?.
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Interview with Dr Marcos Espinal, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership
We tend to think that tuberculosis (TB) belongs to the diseases of the past. Over recent decades, TB cases in Europe have diminished as people’s living conditions improved and strong disease control efforts were put in place. In the 1990s, however, TB all of a sudden reappeared. So let us first refresh our memories: TB is contagious and spreads in the same way as the common cold; each person (...)
Interview with Nadine Burcher, Managing Director, UNIQA Assurances SA International Health and Accident Insurance
Q: The name UNIQA Assurances SA is well-known among people working for CERN, but other people may not know what you are doing. Would you be so kind as to tell us something about your group and your activity in Switzerland?
We are, in fact, a member of the UNIQA group, which is an Austrian insurance group.
UNIQA Assurances SA is a Swiss private health insurance company established in 1979 (...)
Interview with Michel Sidibe, UNAIDS, Director Country and Regional Support and Co-Chair of the Global Task Team
Mr. Sidibe started his career in his natal Mali working on the integration of the Touareg nomadic tribes in Timbuktu. Five years later, he went to work for UNICEF as the country representative in different African countries, where he spent more than twenty years working for the needs of children. He still recalls the child who came to see him while attending an international conference. The (...)
Interview with Juan Mezzich, President of the World Psychiatric Association
When you go to see a psychiatrist for the first time in your life, you tend to be a little “nervous” as no other profession has more stigmas than this one. What on earth is he/she going to tell you? Will they analyze your gestures, the way you talk? Will they read between the lines and discover your good and bad sides? … However, all my worries disappeared when I met Professor Mezzich, President (...)
The fear of public speaking - Interview with Nicole Wells
Speaking in public is not an easy task. Who has not been in a meeting listening to a presentation? Sometimes it can be a moment of real gloom, sometimes a pure delight. It all depends on the person standing there in front of you delivering the speech. Looking around you see that the audience is either falling asleep or paying attention. We asked Nicole Wells, who teaches Public Speaking in (...)
Taiwan launches New International Medical Team – TaiwanIHA
Taiwan International Health Action was formally established on March 30 2006, with a vision to provide Taiwan with the chance to give back to the international community.
By integrating and effectively coordinating the domestic manpower, material resources and equipment available for health aid, TaiwanIHA helps developing countries with their essential medical and health needs, and provides (...)
“Life motivations in Geneva - A new international centre for life management skills and well-being”
At a time when stress-related illnesses and emotional upheaval are on the increase, where employees’ burn-out is not uncommon, Life Motivations in Geneva is offering solutions. This new Geneva-based institute proposes a variety of innovative approaches to these and other societal problems, teaches communication skills, relaxation and, most importantly, how to become self-confident so as to (...)
I HAD TO HELP
“I could not bear sitting in my lovely home while hundreds die of Aids in Zimbabwe every day.” These were the thoughts of Professor Ruedi L?thy, the eminent Swiss HIV and Aids specialist.
In Africa AIDS is the cause of an imminent humanitarian disaster. A countless number of people are already infected with HIV, millions are dying of Aids and tragically millions of children have become (...)
Diabetes - Interview with Dr Gojka Roglic, WHO Specialist
Q: Not long ago, I read that, for the first time in history, there are more people who are overweight than starving in the world. Does this have an influence on the risk of diabetes?
Yes. Being overweight or obese are the most widespread risk factors for diabetes; not only for diabetes but also for several other chronic diseases, including some cancers. So the implications go well beyond (...)
Crisis Management with Serenity
Few would think that mental health issues would be so difficult to budget within the United Nations (UN) after the incredible stress people suffer following natural disasters. Finally,, the need for serenity - a mental health plan — to be included in crisis management is now beginning to take top billing within the UN and progress is in the works. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) on (...)
UN+ - a voice one should listen to
Haven’t heard about UN +? It is an advocacy group for people living with HIV and working in the UN system. It started in 2005 after some concerned UN staff in Geneva and in New York begun to discuss the challenges they face in the UN system. What started out as an informal group of HIV positive persons, today has become an independent initiative hosted by UNAIDS.
In March 2006, more than 30 (...)
Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda, secr ?taire g ?n ?rale de la YWCA-Mondiale : " L’AFRIQUE EST L’EPICENTRE DE LA SOUFFRANCE DES FEMMES ET DES ENFANTS ".
Cent cinquante deux ans (152) d’histoire, l’Alliance mondiale des Unions chr ?tiennes f ?minines (YWCA Mondiale), est un mouvement mondial qu’on retrouve dans 122 pays. Si son fondement est chr ?tien, la YWCA Mondiale, accueille des femmes de toute religion et de toute nationalit ?. Une unit ? dans la diversit ? au Service de la Femme. Le mouvement dont l’activit ? principale est orient ?e sur (...)
INTERVIEW WITH DR J?RGEN SCHLUNDT Department of Food Safety, Zoonoses and Foodborne Diseases, World Health Organization
We do not often think about it, but food and food safety are two important issues for our health and well-being. In the press we read about food –– what you might eat on holidays, how to eat in order to lose weight and how to eat for a healthy life style –– but very seldom do we think about what is connected with food so that we can “safely” eat our meat, fish, lettuce, etc. It has been shown that (...)
True outcomes for patients on antiretroviral therapy who are "lost to follow-up" in Malawi
Many resource-poor countries with HIV epidemics are scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART).
By December 2005, an estimated 1.3 million people from low- and middle- income countries had been placed on treatment; 810 000 of these were in sub-Saharan Africa.
Treatment outcomes reported from various clinics in sub-Saharan Africa, Haiti, Asia and South America have been good, comparable with (...)
Traditional medicine in Geneva Interview with Helene Cormon
One patient in Switzerland out of three is using alternative traditional medicine. Today more and more people are using this type of traditional medicine for their chronic pains and to get the stress out of their body. Nothing is more damaging to our body than stress, and from time to time it’s important to get it out of the system. Alternative medicine is one of the options.
So on a cold (...)
Taiwan, your best destination for medical care
In the past few years, as medical travel has emerged as a major trend worldwide, Taiwan has begun to actively promote medical tourism. In 2007, the Taiwan Task Force on Medical Travel (TFMT, http://medicaltravel.org.tw) was established to advance Taiwan’s affordable high-tech healthcare services.
Taiwan has six major advantages over other countries in the world: high quality, affordability, (...)
Interview with Professor Louis Loutan: The Geneva Health Forum
Just a few days after the World Health Assembly, the Geneva Health Forum will take place here in Geneva. The event, which takes place at the Conference Centre on 25-28 May, is being organized for the second time, and will bring together more than 1,000 people coming from all over the world. One of the main persons behind this event is Professor Louis Loutan of the University of Geneva.
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To drink or not to drink? Interview with Marjana Martinic, Ph.D. Vice-President for Public Health, International Center for Alcohol Policies
You are the Vice-President for Public Health at the International Center for Alcohol Policies (ICAP). Could you tell us about the centre and what exactly you do?
ICAP is an alcohol policy think tank. We are a not-for-profit organization funded by 11 of the major global producers of beverage alcohol, representing beer, wine and distilled spirits, dedicated to promoting understanding of the (...)
Hunger Pains: the Impact of Trade on the Global Food Crisis
A collapsed government in Haiti, deadly rioting in Egypt and protests in at least 25 other countries—all resulting from the rising cost of food around the world. A food crisis has emerged rapidly in the last 18-36 months, a crisis quickly threatening to add an additional 100 million to the worlds already 850 million starving. “People are literally dying of hunger,” said Dr. Mohammed Daud (...)
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In the ‘hollow’ of An Cabhan, or Cavan, the town very successfully hosted the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil from 16 to 22 August. Warm up events such as Family Day, for people of all ages, were held on Sunday, 15th. After a break of fifty-six years Ireland’s national festival returned to Cavan keeping the town alive from morning to night with a feast of traditional Celtic music, dance, poetry, concerts, exhibitions, charity events and numerous competitions for thousands of performers. In multiple venues within and around the town, music, song and craic poured forth to the thousands of visitors (...)
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