It was an enormous opportunity to work with the WHO steering group and experts from around the world to revise the mhGAP guidelines (3rd edition).

This is an evidence based, valuable resource to build the capacity of non-specialists for countries like Pakistan.…

#Sudan ’s #humanitarian crisis is huge and brutal, still in a death spiral, and woefully neglected. Aid is getting in, but local responders should be setting the agenda.

A privilege to speak with Rich Preston BBC News (UK) to explain why we’re in Cairo for the Sudan Humanitarian Crisis Conference conference

It's an irony to witness European States roll out red carpets for officials of a gender apartheid regime in Afghanistan, while journalists and activists in Iran and Pakistan suffer, waiting for visas. Germany's condemnation of Taliban's officials is not enough; an investigation

Great news for multidrug-resistant #TB treatment today!

The results of the endTB clinical trial have found three new drug regimens which have shown similar efficacy and safety to standard treatments while reducing treatment time by up to two-thirds. msf.org/landmark-clini…

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In the face of horror – secondary traumatisation and mental distress in employees and volunteers at #national_socialism related #memorial sites tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
#Secondary #traumatisation symptoms based on documents of atrocities that happened more than 70 years ago!

My favorite is that in every colony of naked mole rats there are a couple individuals whose job is just to grow as large and fat as possible. During the rainy season, they will plug the tunnel entrances with their fat little behinds and save the colony from drowning.

Patient*innen mit türkischen oder nigerianischen Namen erhalten im deutschen Gesundheitssystem seltener positive Reaktionen auf Terminanfragen. Dieser Effekt ist besonders groß bei... Psychotherapeut*innen!
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Once again, I have to flag how staggering it is when the ICRC speaks this plainly about a conflict. It cannot be dismissed.

Übrigens: Niemand MUSSTE Teil der Einsatzgruppen sein. Dass Nazis 'nur' geschossen haben, weil sie Angst um ihr eigenes Leben hatten, ist ein Märchen, dass Oma und Opa den Enkeln erzählt haben. Ist längst auf breiter Quellenlage widerlegt.

In AAN’s latest report we hear from eyewitnesses about what has been happening since the province was rocked by a series of devastating earthquakes on 7 October. #Afghanistan bit.ly/47m1D0U

The more international attention the case gets, the more likely the HO is to overturn it - please share if you can, international friends and colleagues

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Baldwin

#hate #pain

Great thread. For most Western countries, embassies have been largely cut out of any policy process. Many diplomats in the field are happy if their dispatches get read *at all* among the flood of internal correspondence at headquarters.

Doctors cannot stop bombs. #Gaza

Amid the horrors of the war in Gaza, some Palestinians openly turn on Hamas. Searing piece by AP. apnews.com/article/israel…

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

Carl Jung

#psychotherapy #aim #patience #suffering

Was gesagt werden musste.🙏

Vielleicht ist es ja ein Zeichen der endgültigen Überwindung des 9.November 1938, dass ein Verteter jüdischer Gemeinden die Worte findet, die aus dem Mundden nicht-jüdischer Vertreter der Politik nicht zu hören sind.