World AIDS Campaign

Get Zero Campaign, started in 2011 year, will last until 2015 year and is supported by the United Nations:

"Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths ".

The World Campaign calls for, that different regions and population groups will each year choose one or more topics for active promotion, the most relevant situations for the region.

The main stages of the "Get to Zero" campaign are the following tasks, to be achieved before 2015 of the year:

Zero New HIV Infections calls for:

– halving the sexual transmission of HIV, including among young people, men, having sex with men, and in the context of sex work;

– complete elimination of vertical transmission of HIV;

– preventing HIV transmission among humans, injecting drug users.

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Курение и рак.

Основной задачей медицинской науки и практики во все времена является концентрация усилий на борьбе с главными причинами смертности населения. Smoking control is a prerequisite for improving public health.

В настоящее время основное внимание медицины привлечено к борьбе с сердечно-сосудистыми и злокачественными заболеваниями, которых называют убийцами номер один и номер два. Во многих наиболее развитых странах мира, а также в СНГ, сегодня каждый второй-третий из числа умерших умер от болезней сердца и сосудов, а примерно каждый пятый – от злокачественных новообразований.

К настоящему времени, благодаря усилиям ученых разных стран мира, накопилось достаточно фактов, свидетельствующих о тесной связи между ростом частоты сердечно-сосудистых и злокачественных заболеваний и увеличением потребления табачных изделий и числа курильщиков.

Smoking, primarily, опасно образующимися при неполном сгорании химическими веществами. Это никотин, окись углерода, hydrocyanic acid, пагубно действующие преимущественно на нервную и сердечно-сосудистую системы, а также канцерогены – вещества, способствующие развитию рака.

Поскольку в сигарете содержатся относительно малые дозы никотина, отравление им организма происходит не сразу, а постепенно. Горько, досадно видеть, как жестоко расплачиваются за свою пагубную страсть к курению люди, and, трудоспособного, а нередко молодого возраста.

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as the main treatment for tuberculosis – infectious disease, transmitted by airborne droplets from sneezing, coughing, talking to a sick person. You can get infected on public transport, in the store, at the stadium, at the cinema, on the market, at a disco and other public places, where should a patient with tuberculosis be located?.
Infection is possible through the patient's household items, when kissing, when finishing someone else's cigarettes. You can also become infected with tuberculosis from sick animals through contact with them., as well as when eating meat, dairy products, eggs, not undergone sufficient heat treatment. Transmission of the infection is also possible in utero from a sick mother to her child..
Most often, tuberculosis affects the respiratory system, but can develop in other organs without exception (brain, eyes, kidneys, intestines, leather, bones, lymph nodes, etc.). Read completely »

Press release for 10 September 2012

World Suicide Prevention Day or World Suicide Prevention Day (World Suicide Prevention Day) - international date, which is celebrated all over the planet annually, 10 september.

World Suicide Prevention Day is initiated by the International Association for Suicide Prevention (MAPS) with the active support of the World Health Organization and under the patronage of the United Nations.

According to the WHO, suicide is the 13th leading cause of death worldwide, and in the age range from 15 to 44 years, its importance rises to the fourth place. IN 2000 r. according to various sources from 815 thous. to 1 million. people all over the world committed suicide. There is reason to believe, that the reported suicide rate remains underreported by 20%, and in some regions of the world - by 100% as a result of prevailing social or religious views of suicide.

According to statistics provided by WHO, more people die from suicide in the third millennium, than all the wars and violent killings combined. In most economically developed countries of the world, suicide is among the top ten causes of death..

Suicide is a very significant moral and economic problem. World economic losses from suicide amounted to 1,8% the global burden of disease in 1998 r. and will make 2,4% To 2020 g., when the number of people, deaths from suicide will reach 1 530 000 in year. Approximately at 10-20 times more people commit suicidal attempts, which puts this form of auto-aggression on the 6th place among the causes of disability. Moreover, each case of suicide is associated with the experience of a severe traumatic reaction of grief by the family and friends of the person who committed suicide, whose lives this act affects emotionally, socially and economically.

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Pathological states of consciousness have been known for a long time., drug-induced. Everyone has heard about the possible consequences of using these drugs.: about hell of a heroin addiction, about the risk of overdose, about the dangers of driving while intoxicated, about mental degradation of a person, long time drug user, the risk of cancer from smoking…

Most of these caveats are warranted to some extent.. And yet people continue to use psychotropic drugs. Some do it, to eliminate the pain, other – to find a dream, third – to cheer yourself up in crucial moments; but many – just for that, to feel “other”, find a state of inner well-being, which helps them overcome the difficulties of life, and often avoid them. Tobacco, coffee, alcohol – it, undoubtedly, the most common psychotropic substances, consumed in our society. In our society, only alcohol and tobacco are considered acceptable. (both of which, by the way, addictive)

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