Yasmine Mustafa gives healthcare workers a tool for workplace safety

A two-year curriculum on interpersonal conflict resolution transformed secondary schools in the province of Jawzjan. Violence between students fell by half. Girl’s school attendance increased. Both boys and girls experienced lower rates of depression. The curriculum is part of a larger project by a local NGO to build mediation skills and human rights knowledge in the conflict-affected province.

Dementia units and long-term care homes for the elderly are often desolate and lonely places, with harried workers attempting to meet the needs of their patients while also meeting government-set metrics of success. For families and individuals, it can be difficult to imagine a better way. However, a pilot program in Canada called the Butterfly room is showing that dedicated efforts to making long-term care homes a vibrant and loving place for someone's last days has positive impacts for everyone - and is worth a government investment do right across the country.

Despite avoiding mass bans on citizen movement, South Korea has managed to mitigate the number of reported cases for coronavirus after implementing broad testing protocols. Having learned what didn't work during a previous outbreak of a respitaroy illness, the country "created a system to allow rapid approval of testing kits for viruses which have the potential to cause pandemics."

In China flaut die Corona-Krise allmählich ab. Nach offiziellen Angaben gibt es kaum mehr Neuinfektionen – nur solche, die von Einreisenden stammen. Ein deutscher Professor erklärt, welche sieben Lehren wir hierzulande daraus ziehen können, damit die Kurve abflacht. DIe wichtigste Erkenntnis: Keine Normalität solange es keine medizinischen Mittel gegen Corona gibt.

Videochats, Whatsapp-Gruppen, Telefondienst rund um die Uhr. Wer süchtig nach Alkohol ist, findet jetzt online Hilfe – hauptsache, in Verbindung bleiben.

Mehr als 20.000 Tüftler kamen Ende April beim Hackathon "EUvsVirus" zusammen, virtuell. Ziel: Die Suche nach Lösungen für die vielen Probleme in der Corona-Krise. Mittlweile hat sich die Idee europaweit ausgebreitet.

신종 코로나바이러스 확산 초기, 마스크 대란에 대처하기 위해 대만 정부는 '마스크 실명제', '마스크 맵' 서비스 등을 주도적으로 시행하며 위기에 적극적으로 대응하는 모습을 보여주었습니다.

진단 제품 긴급사용승인제도, 선별진료 및 드라이브스루 진료, 정확도 높은 검사법 채택 등을 통해 한국은 단시간 내에 기록적인 양의 코로나19 검사를 시행할 수 있었습니다.

Mit der Corona-Pandemie fallen Therapieplätze für Menschen mit Depressionen weg. Als Alternative soll das Angebot and Videosprechstunden und Online-Selbsthilfeprogrammen ausgebaut werden. In zwei Wochen gab es über 1000 Neuanmeldungen – pro Tag. Die Datenlage zur Effektivität ist aber bisher noch gering.

Ukosefu wa maji katika wadi la Makima ilikuwa inalazimisha wakaazi kwenda masafa marefu kama kilomita tano kuyatafuta. Mmoja wapo wa hatari wa safari iyo ilikuwa kuliwa na mamba ambao walikuwa wanapatikana kwenye bwawa la maji. Lakini mradi wa kuleta maji karibu na wakaazi kupitia kuweka matangi katika soko mbali mbali yameondoa tatizo la maji na hatari iyo ya mamba.