{"id":45220,"date":"2021-06-18T14:51:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/suicide-cases-on-the-rise-who"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:16:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:16:02","slug":"suicide-cases-on-the-rise-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/suicide-cases-on-the-rise-who","title":{"rendered":"Suicide cases on the rise \u2013 WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised the alarm that suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>A report, \u201cSuicide worldwide in 2019\u201d, published on Thursday found that more people die yearly as a result of suicide than HIV, malaria or breast cancer, war and murder.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, WHO revealed, more than 700,000 people died by suicide \u2013 one in every 100 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Among young people aged 15-29, suicide was the fourth leading cause of death after road injury, tuberculosis, and interpersonal violence.<\/p>\n<p>Rates vary between countries and genders. More than twice as many males die due to suicide as females (12.6 per 100, 000 males compared with 5.4 per 100 000 females).<\/p>\n<p>Suicide is higher in high-income countries (16.5 per 100, 000). For females, the highest rates are found in lower-middle-income countries (7.1 per 100, 000).<\/p>\n<p>Africa (11.2 per 100, 000), European (10.5 per 100, 000), and South-East Asia (10.2 per 100, 000) regions were higher than the global average (9.0 per 100, 000) in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s mass suicide\u2019 \u2013 Nigerian workers reject plan to slash salaries<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot \u2013 and must not \u2013 ignore suicide. Each one is a tragedy\u201d, Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director-General stated.<\/p>\n<p>Ghebreyesus said the body\u2019s attention to suicide prevention is more important now due to effects of COVID-19 including job loss, financial stress and social isolation.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO observed some countries have made suicide prevention high a priority while many others remain uncommitted.<\/p>\n<p>Only 38 countries are known to have a national suicide prevention strategy and the UN health agency hopes its new guidance would reduce the rate.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance provides four strategies: limiting access to the means of suicide; educating the media on responsible suicide reporting; fostering socio-emotional life skills in adolescents; and early identification, assessment, management and follow-up of those with suicidal thoughts and behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Unidentified man hangs self in Ibadan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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