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Title: “My name is Ben and I get depressed sometimes” – meet the young British man speaking up for mental health
Description: Ben Ogden, a 24-year-old personal trainer and content creator, is trying to get people to talk about their mental health. He is doing it in a rather unconventional way: by standing in crowded train stations across the United Kingdom holding cardboard signs that read, for example, “If you’re struggling with your mental health, Lets Talk”. The missing apostrophe is intentional to attract attention from passers-by.
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Title: Statement - Investigations ongoing into atypical cases of monkeypox now reported in eight countries in Europe
Description: 19 May 2022, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe
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Title: “Luigi means courageous warrior – and that’s exactly what my father was” – a testament to the bravery of a much-loved family man who fell victim to COVID-19
Description: Luigi Ciesco came from a small village in southern Italy, growing up in real poverty, before meeting his wife-to-be Vincenza, and emigrating to the United Kingdom in the 1960s. A husband for 57 years, a father of 4 and a grandfather of 8, Luigi worked for the National Health Service in England. Twenty years ago he contracted methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a type of bacterial infection which is resistant to many widely used antibiotics, which seriously compromised his health and led to multiple illnesses over the following years.
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Title: Monkeypox cases reported in the WHO European Region
Description: Over the last week, monkeypox cases have been reported in the WHO European Region in several countries.
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Title: Moving forward while reflecting on what has been lost: a grieving daughter describes how she lost her father to COVID-19
Description: Safiah had moved home over Christmas 2020, just before a second period of lockdown was announced in the United Kingdom. She and her brother contracted COVID-19 while shopping on behalf of their parents. Although they tried to isolate, Safiah’s father soon tested positive too.
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Title: Health must be at the centre of Ukraine’s recovery, says WHO Regional Director for Europe
Description: This week, WHO Regional Director for Europe Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge led a delegation to Ukraine to review immediate and long-term health needs, the WHO emergency response, and the best ways to help the health system withstand and recover from the damage inflicted by war.