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UNFPA
A clear view of the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is only beginning to take shape, but experts estimate the human cost could be extraordinary. The economic and physical disruptions caused by the disease could have vast consequences for the rights and health of women and girls, a new analysis by UNFPA and partners shows.
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CBS News
Six months of lockdowns to prevent the spread of COVID-19 could lead to 31 million additional cases of domestic violence globally, the United Nations warned April 28.
"It is a growing crisis within the crisis. We need to pay maximum attention to this now," Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, deputy director of the United Nations Population Fund, the UN's sexual and reproductive health agency, told CBS News.
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USA Today
As the United States struggles to track coronavirus fatalities amid spotty testing, delayed lab results and inconsistent reporting standards, a more insidious problem could thwart the country's quest for an accurate death toll.
Between 20 and 30 percent of death certificates nationwide were wrong before COVID-19, Bob Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics, said in an interview with the USA TODAY Network. “I’m always worried about getting good data. I think this sort of thing can be an issue even in a pandemic,” Anderson said.
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NPR
Online child sexual abuse is rising as countries close schools and impose various levels of lockdown to contain the new coronavirus pandemic, children's rights advocates in Southeast Asia warn.
"Europol, the U.K.'s National Crime Agency, the Swedish Police Authority and others have already seen an increase in online child sexual exploitation since COVID-19 lockdowns," says John Tanagho, the field office director for the International Justice Mission in the Philippines, a country at the epicenter of online sexual abuse of children.
"We're talking about on-demand, child sexual abuse and exploitation that is being livestreamed from traffickers in the Philippines to child sex offenders around the world, primarily in Western countries," he says.
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Boston Children's Hospital via EurekAlert!
Suicide is now the second most common cause of death among American youth. Fatal suicides rose 30 percent between 2000 and 2016, and 2016 alone saw 1.3 million nonfatal suicide attempts. Now, a study led by Boston Children's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital demonstrates that a predictive computer model can identify patients at risk for attempting suicide from patterns in their electronic health records — an average of two years ahead of time.
Such models could potentially alert health professionals in advance of a visit, helping patients get appropriate interventions, the researchers say. Findings were published last month in JAMA Network Open.
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National Post
Before blazing a trail of carnage across Nova Scotia, the man behind one of Canada’s worst mass killings attacked his longtime girlfriend — a story domestic violence experts say is eerily familiar.
Police say this assault was potentially the “catalyst” for the horrific murder spree that claimed 22 victims last week.
Many mass killings begin with abuse of the people closest to home, say researchers and advocates. To prevent future tragedy, they say authorities need to recognize the threat domestic violence poses to the public.
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Medpage Today
The increasing national suicide rate may be attributable to individuals using more lethal means when attempting suicide, according to CDC data.
From 2006 to 2015, suicide attempts increased by 10 percent, from 175 to 193 per 100,000 persons, and the case fatality rate of suicidal acts increased from 7.3 to 8.3 percent, reported Jing Wang, MD, MPH, of the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues.
Suicide attempts by firearms and suffocation increased during the study period (which were lethal in 90 and 51 percent of cases, respectively), while suicidal acts using poisoning decreased (lethal two percent of the time), they wrote in JAMA Psychiatry.
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Science Magazine
People with post-traumatic stress disorder face a higher risk of heart disease at an earlier age than people without PTSD. A new study helps explain why. Scientists found evidence of dysfunction in small blood vessels that appears to be driven by the sympathetic nervous system–the system behind the fight-or-flight response–along with oxidative stress, an imbalance between free radicals and antioxidants in the bloodstream.
Problems in the small blood vessels are often a precursor to stiffening or narrowing of the larger arteries, which can lead to a heart attack, stroke or other forms of heart disease.
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Science Magazine
Zika virus is capable of replicating and spreading infectious particles within the outermost cells lining the vaginal tract, according to new research. The findings provide the first molecular-level insights into how the virus can move from person to person through sexual contact.
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University of Washington via Medical Xpress
The bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, likely uses a single gene to escape the immune system, research from UW Medicine in Seattle suggests. The finding may help explain how syphilis can hide in the body for decades, thereby frustrating the immune system's attempts to eradicate it. It might also account for the bacterium's ability to re-infect people who had been previously been infected and should have acquired some immunity to it.
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