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World Aids Day 2019: जानें क्या होता है एड्स, ये हैं लक्षण और बचाव के उपाय

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World Aids Day 2019: दुनियाभर में हर साल 1 दिसंबर को वर्ल्ड एड्स डे (World AIDS Day) मनाया जाता है। विश्व एड्स दिवस 2019 को मनाने का उद्देश्य एचआईवी संक्रमण के प्रति लोगों को जागरूक करना है। बात दें, सबसे पहले इस दिन को वैश्विक स्तर पर मनाने की शुरूआत  WHO में एड्स  जागरुकता अभियान से जुड़े जेम्स डब्ल्यू बुन और थॉमस नेटर नाम के दो व्यक्तियों ने अगस्त 1987 में की थी। UNICEF की रिपोर्ट की मानें तो 36.9 मिलियन लोग HIV के शिकार हो चुके हैं। जबकि भारत सरकार…

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World Suicide Prevention Day 2019: Here’s How You Can Avoid Self Harm

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To raise awareness about suicide prevention, September 10 is observed as World Suicide Prevention Day. A number of people lose their life to suicide every year. Surprisingly, this number is higher than the deaths caused by war and homicide combined. While there are a number of reasons due to which one commits suicide, no reason is ever good enough to lose your life for it. One of the greatest reasons for committing suicide is the turmoil in the life and the situation around it. However, suicide is not the wisest…

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Burnout is not a medical condition

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The clarification came a day after the WHO mistakenly said it had listed burnout in its International Classification of Diseases for the first time. The World Health Organization said on May 28 that “burnout” remains an “occupational phenomenon” that could lead someone to seek care but it is not considered a medical condition. The clarification came a day after the WHO mistakenly said it had listed burnout in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD) for the first time. The World Health Assembly, WHO’s main annual meeting which wrapped up on May 28,…

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‘World running out of antibiotics, pathogens getting resistant,’ WHO warns

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Besides TB, the WHO has also identified 12 classes of priority pathogens — including common infections like pneumonia or urinary tract infections — that are increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics and urgently in need of new treatments. Antibiotics that are currently in clinical development are insufficient to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report said. Most of the drugs currently in the clinical phase are modifications of existing classes of antibiotics and are only short-term solutions, WHO said. There are, however, very few potential…

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