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Designing and implementing policies to reduce the consumption of alcohol is a significant challenge globally
The country experiences the harmful effects of substance use in numerous areas
the toil of alcohol consumption can be felt in the healthcare system and economy
It also has links to rates of domestic violence and road crashes
a psychiatrist and researcher at the Federal University of São Paulo
set out to develop a programme targeting alcohol consumption in the city of Tarumã
Tarumã is a small city with a population of 15,300 (1)
At the time of the programme’s inception
the city faced first-hand the effects of excessive drinking and drug use
mainly its association with increased violence
and community leaders launched the programme Periscópio
Periscópio’s design “aims at reaching all Tarumã residents
The programme applies a range of evidence-based strategies and community approaches focused on prevention
awareness-raising and the reduction of excessive drinking and treatment for people affected by alcohol addiction
launched the Periscópio programme together with other key city stakeholders in 2007. Credit: WHO/Achocolatado Filmes
the Periscópio programme prioritizes a community-at-large approach to prevention and awareness-raising for reducing the harmful consumption of alcohol
the Periscópio has undergone four phases of implementation
beginning with a local needs and resource assessment
then the design of tailored activities and an initial and further evaluation of performance
The implementation of Periscópio has relied on efforts across city departments of education
the programme has focused on reaching children
Pediatric Psychiatrist affiliated with the programme
“the objective is to converge in a well-tuned way
[for] health within the educational area.”
The programme has also included the development of pro-active preventative measures in schools to identify and address childhood risk factors for drug misuse behaviours as adolescents
A multidisciplinary screening protocol was developed and applied in schools
with students receiving psycho-pedagogical therapies after being diagnosed by a training team as having mental
inspections of the availability and ease of access to illicit products for individuals under 18 are carried out
The programme also includes frequent meetings with parents and other community members
to build their first-hand capacity for delivering brief alcohol interventions
The Periscópio programme works to train teachers in schools to reach teenagers and young adults about the harmful effects of alcohol
The Periscópio programme is also active in reaching bar owners
As Tarumã bar owner Silvio da Silva describes: “I support the project workers going to bars and holding meetings with the owners
This visit the project workers are doing at my bar should
be done with each bar owner.” Credit: WHO/Achocolatado Filmes
Collaborations across stakeholders and the support of local authorities are among key factors contributing to Periscópio’s success
The ongoing implementation of the Periscópio programme has benefited from the support of several layers of stakeholders
ranging from municipal authorities to city professionals in education
social assistance and the programme’s beneficiaries of various age groups and social strata
The programme has also withstood changes in city administration
it has consistently benefited from the support of the mayors of Tarumã
the programme was transformed into a municipal policy of “comprehensive care for users of alcohol and other drugs” (Municipal Law 1.199/2016(2))
the programme is now a mandatory part of the pluriannual plan of the city
meaning it is included in the annual budget laws
Drawing from the experience of Periscópio
cities interested in implementing a similar programme should focus on identifying local priorities
building mechanisms for regular monitoring
and working across stakeholders in an integrated
Find out more about how the city of\r\nTarumã
is reducing the consumption of alcohol by watching the linked\r\nvideo
[1] IBGE | Cidades@ | São Paulo | Tarumã | Panorama
[2] Municipal Law 1.199/2016[2] Municipal Law 1.199/2016
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Everyone has a duty to help refugees rebuild their lives after a particularly difficult year for so many – that’s the message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, to mark World Refugee Day on 20 June
Everyone has a duty to help refugees rebuild their lives after a particularly difficult year for so many – that’s the message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, to mark World Refugee Day on 20 June
In an appeal for greater empathy for all those who’ve had to flee conflict
who has just been re-appointed for a second term
said that the pandemic had wiped out refugees’ livelihoods
and led to stigmatization and vilification
Refugees had also been exposed disproportionately to the virus, the UN chief insisted, adding that once again, they had demonstrated their invaluable contribution to their host communities as essential and frontline workers. “We have a duty to help refugees rebuild their lives”, he said. “COVID-19 has shown us that we can only succeed if we stand together.”
who spent ten years as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
called on communities and governments to do more to include refugees
and to move together towards a more inclusive future
The Secretary-General expressed his admiration for refugees and displaced persons
and for “what they have taught us all about the power of hope and healing.”
According to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR
the number of people in need of international protection rose last year to nearly 82.4 million people
This is a four per cent increase on top of the already record-high of 79.5 million
The refugee agency’s flagship Global Trends Report, revealed on Friday that, far from slowing forced displacement around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic may well have been partly responsible for the record levels of people fleeing war, violence, and human rights violations.
The number of people fleeing wars, violence, persecution, and human rights violations, rose last year to nearly 82.4 million people, a further four percent increase on top of the already record-high of 79.5 million, recorded at the end of 2019.
When he accepted the offer to become UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, four years ago, Mark Lowcock had hoped the need for aid globally was on the decline.
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by Christina Animashaun, Tim Ryan Williams, and Benjamin Rosenberg
LinkA family mourns a deceased relative during a mass burial of coronavirus victims in Parque Taruma cemetery on May 19 in Manaus, Brazil — a city in the Amazon region hit hard by the virus. | Andre Coelho/Getty ImagesLast New Year’s Eve, a hint of what the world might be in for in 2020 arrived in the form of an Associated Press story about 27 people in Wuhan
who had fallen ill with a mysterious strain of viral pneumonia
This was the first news of the new illness reported outside of China
Less than 11 months later, 50 million people worldwide are confirmed to have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the Covid-19 disease
And more than 1,250,000 Covid-19 deaths have been reported
one that reflects the coronavirus’s contagiousness as well as a global failure to contain its spread
though a lack of testing in some regions makes direct comparisons more difficult
with curfews and other restrictions imposed in Spain
More sweeping lockdowns have been ordered in some places
The spread is more under control in Australia and New Zealand, as well as much of East Asia and Africa. India and parts of the Middle East
And the US has driven up the world’s new case numbers in the past few weeks
due in no small part to a lack of national leadership and a reluctance to implement well-established public health measures like testing
a senior scientist at Johns Hopkins’s Bloomberg School of Public Health
probably by a factor of 10 to 20,” Toner said
many more people who have been infected than those confirmed cases
So we don’t really know how bad it has been
but it’s certainly the worst thing we’ve seen in 100 years.”
President Donald Trump was briefed on the coronavirus beginning in January
but he has continued to downplay the virus’s threat throughout the pandemic
On February 10, while campaigning in New Hampshire, the president claimed the virus would “miraculously go away.” But three days before, he had already privately told journalist Bob Woodward that Covid-19 was more deadly than the flu
“What we’ve seen is the absolute failure of effective emergency health communication
which has basic principles that are straightforward,” says Dr
who led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under President Barack Obama
The US government completely failed on all of those components.”
after restrictions on travel from China the previous month
It took until March 16 for Trump to introduce social distancing guidelines
he admitted to Woodward that he was purposely downplaying the virus to avoid “creating a panic.” He also acknowledged that younger people were susceptible to Covid-19 as well
Trump has admitted publicly he has pressured officials to “slow down” testing
not wanting revealed Covid-19 cases to set back reopening of the country
especially when social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.”
Trump, however, wore a mask in public for the first time in mid-July
and repeatedly mocked his Democratic opponent in the 2020 election
“The general measures are wear a mask
as well as strategic closures,” Frieden said
“You have to call on people’s collective sense of responsibility
The lack of recognition that we’re all connected
and the lack of acting on that recognition
States that were reluctant to issue mask mandates or close down nonessential businesses again when cases rose did not help matters, although a lack of federal aid may have played a role in those decisions
the US is in its third — and worst — wave of surging infections
the country set a new single-day record with more than 120,000 new cases reported
the public — could take social distancing seriously again
and the public could opt to wear them without a mandate
could try to adopt aggressive testing-and-tracing regimes to try to keep the coronavirus under some control
America’s coronavirus epidemic will keep getting worse
Europe and Latin America have struggled the most to contain Covid-19
Italy and Spain had the biggest outbreaks to be initially detected in Europe
Italy had just 566 new daily confirmed cases on March 1
but that number rose to more than 6,000 by March 26
A strict lockdown successfully contained the disease
but it came back with a vengeance in the fall
This time, it was Spain that first showed the alarming resurgence on the continent. The country had followed a similar trajectory
with an initial spike in March and a lockdown that almost totally suppressed the virus
As Spain reopened, however, social distancing rules and enforcement were lax in some areas, and the disease burden shifted more toward younger people with generally less severe cases. At the same time, the keys to controlling epidemic spread — test, trace, and isolate — were underutilized by a public health system that had deteriorated with a decade of fiscal austerity
and some more drastic restrictions such as closing restaurants and bars in Catalonia did not come until October
Spain now has more than 20,000 confirmed cases per day, and continues to record some of the highest numbers of new cases per million people on the continent
Meanwhile, some European countries were slow to react to Spain’s case surge and impose measures of their own
As Julia Belluz explained in September
France soon went down the same path as Spain:
In July, cases started increasing in a way that couldn’t be explained by testing alone — albeit slowly, doubling every two weeks instead of every 3.5 days, like in March
A rise in hospitalizations didn’t follow immediately
As outbreaks have spread across the continent again, several countries have returned to full or partial lockdowns to combat the new surge, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany
Bolsonaro himself tested positive for the virus in July
He has opposed mask mandates and social distancing measures
and sought to reopen the economy almost as soon as regional restrictions were imposed in March
Africa has a younger population compared to other continents
and Covid-19 is most severe in older people
But that’s likely not the only reason behind the relatively fewer confirmed deaths and cases: Many African countries
acted quickly in issuing health guidance and social distancing measures
And the experience of countries on the continent with previous epidemics may have helped officials and the public prepare better for this one
Parts of Asia have also fared well. China, where the virus originated, initially sought to hide information about the virus
locking down cities and ordering widespread testing
The country — of more than 1.4 billion people — still has fewer than 100,000 confirmed cases
South Korea quickly contained an early outbreak
And Australia and New Zealand — it helps being islands — have been among the best in the world at suppressing the virus
The reasons behind disease spread are complicated
and not every country’s situation can be easily compared
But these seem to be key factors in stemming the tide of an outbreak: Quick action
Many countries in the Pacific have managed all of these
“But also places like Vietnam have done a very good job
Australia and New Zealand have been great examples
They’ve done a really good job with messaging and containment.”
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“In these days my prayers go to all those who are suffering because of the pandemic
especially to those in Manaus in northern Brazil,” Pope Francis said during the General Audience
In greetings to the Portuguese-speaking faithful after the Wednesday General Audience catechesis
the Pope expressed his concern for the situation in the Amazon city and invoked the Lord to sustain the people there in this difficult time
“I send you my heartfelt blessings!” he said
With hospitals overflowing and oxygen supplies running low
the authorities and the population of the city of Manaus in Brazil’s Amazon fear a second wave of Covid-19 deaths could prove even more devastating
The head of the Coordination of Indigenous Peoples in Manaus and Surroundings (Copime) warned that for the roughly 30,000 indigenous people who live in Manaus and rely on public healthcare
Brazil's Air Force flew oxygen cylinders into the rainforest city last week as desperate relatives reportedly protested outside hospitals
saying patients had been taken off ventilators as oxygen supplies ran out
Some of the sick were airlifted to other states as locals scrambled to buy oxygen on the black market to help their loved ones
but a Copime spokesman said “"If we have to buy oxygen for our elders to survive
In a statement the Amazonas government said it gave its first Covid-19 vaccine this week to an indigenous nurse in Parque das Tribos
and noted that frontline health workers and indigenous people in reservations would be the priority for vaccinations
Brazil has registered 210,000 deaths from COVID-19
according to data from Johns Hopkins University
the second-highest toll after the United States
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The ballroom of The Dharmawangsa Jakarta was transformed into a magical venue for the union of Taruma B
Tribudiman and Yessie Saphira Corzita
The beautiful couple was married in a traditional Sundanese ceremony that was attended by their close friends
family and some of the city’s notable VVIPs and dignitaries
The bride and groom stole the limelight as they sported traditional wear in shimmering gold combinations
The couple’s parents were also decked up in traditional attire as they witnessed the sacred union of their children.
Guests were seen mingling with one another as they indulged in traditional delicacies prepared for them by the fantastic team at The Dharmawangsa Jakarta. Taruma and Yessie were seen beaming as they performed their first dance as man and wife on the dance floor
Photo 1 of 19 The bride and groom alongside their parents and Mr and Mrs Emil SalimPhoto 2 of 19 Titi Empel
Luna Triestin and Amelia HarrisPhoto 3 of 19 Emirsyah Satar
RinaldiPhoto 18 of 19 Bambang Sidharta and Myrta UtamiPhoto 19 of 19 Endang Kurnia Hasyim The bride and groom alongside their parents and Mr and Mrs Emil Salim
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Allam Khodair and Cacá Bueno were the great winners of the 11th round of the Brazilian V8 Stock Car season this Sunday
The traditional and fast circuit of Tarumã
was a stage for two competitive races under blue skies and 35 degrees Celsius of temperature with crowded grandstands
had a small chance of clinching the title this weekend
but with a third place on race one and only a 11th on race two postponed the decision of the gran finale to Interlagos
Cacá Bueno is the only man who can beat the Voxx driver to the trophy
Gomes needs a 12th place finish to be the first son of a Stock Car champion to claim the title
the strategy will be the same: start as far ahead as possible
which reduces the chances of something going wrong"
Allam Khodair started from pole on race one and lead the first seven laps until he and Gomes in second were overtaken by young ace Felipe Fraga
at once around the outside on the fast turn 1 using the push-to-pass button
the Full Time-Texaco driver regained the lead to win for the first time this season
"We had got four second places so far and other two thirds
the team and I are happy; the car felt good the whole time and we finally won
and started second on race two due to the 10-place reversed grid
he was being passed by the fastest drivers
Rubens Barrichello put some pressure on Bueno
who knew to keep the right momentum to move on his Red Bull teammate Daniel Serra to take the lead
Barrichello did the same and got his third podium of the year
since he goes to Interlagos with chances to be a champion for the sixth time
"Of course we were a little relieved today
The team made a top job in a weekend that seemed to be hard
so we played with the strategy to score more points on race two
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and white crosses mark the dead in mass graves in Manaus
a visual reminder of the toll the novel coronavirus has had on the country
Brazil now has the second-most COVID-19 cases in the world
The same model projects that the US will reach 131,967 deaths by August 4
The US this week passed the grim milestone of 100,000 reported coronavirus deaths
and New York by enforcing mandates and measures to gain control of a fast-moving epidemic and reduce transmission of the coronavirus," IHME's director
He added that until Brazil imposed lockdowns
its daily death count could keep rising into mid-July
The country would by then also face a shortage of critical hospital resources
According to CNBC
while the US registered 620 deaths on Monday
As of Wednesday, Brazil had close to 412,000 cases. Russia had a little more than 370,500, according to data from Johns Hopkins University
Source: IHME
Business Insider previously reported that the death rate among Brazil's indigenous people reached 12.6%
with 125 deaths out of the 980 confirmed coronavirus cases in those communities
The death rate in the rest of the country is 6.5%
The Wall Street Journal reported that at least 116 nurses had died in Brazil
Nurses and other healthcare workers in the country often must use "aging equipment and lack enough face shields
and gowns to battle a highly contagious disease."
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Emergency measures pile pain on to mourning families as coronavirus tears through the ill-prepared jungle-flanked city
the dead are delivered into the tawny Amazonian earth – the latest victims of a devastating pandemic now reaching deep into the heart of the Brazilian rainforest
On Sunday 140 bodies were laid to rest in Manaus
the jungle-flanked capital of Amazonas state
Normally the figure would be closer to 30 – but these are no longer normal times
“It’s madness – just madness,” said Gilson de Freitas
a 30-year-old maintenance man whose mother
was one of 136 people buried there last Tuesday as local morticians set yet another grim daily record
Freitas – who believes his mother contracted Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital following a stroke – recalled watching in despair as her remains were lowered into a muddy trench alongside perhaps 20 other coffins
“They were just dumped there like dogs,” he said
“We aren’t in a state of emergency – we’re well beyond that
We are in a state of utter disaster … like a country that is at war – and has lost,” he said
I can’t stop thinking about Gabriel García Márquez when I think about the situation Manaus is facing.”
View image in fullscreenAerial view of coffins being buried at an area where new graves have been dug at the Parque Tarumã cemetery in Manaus
Photograph: Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty ImagesThe coronavirus appears to have reached this isolated
riverside metropolis of more than 2 million people on 11 March
imported by a 49-year-old woman who had flown in from London
Six weeks later it is taking a terrible toll, with gravediggers so overworked that two men were this week forced to bury their own father
With more than 100 people dying each day and Manaus’s overwhelmed authorities performing nighttime burials, many fear it is already too late.
Read moreCity officials say they expect to bury up to 4,500 people in the next month alone
Funeral homes have warned they will run out of wooden coffins by this weekend
In Parque Tarumã – Manaus’s biggest cemetery – excavators have carved out mass graves called “trincheiras” – trenches – in which the dead were being stacked in three-high piles until a revolt from mourning families saw the practice halted
whose 58-year-old mother was consigned to the trenches last week
“She spent her whole life working … she paid all of her taxes
Edmar Barros
a local photographer who has been documenting the burials
“It’s absurd what is happening here,” he said
“It’s a situation of just devastating sadness.”
View image in fullscreenA healthcare worker pays tribute to co-workers that have died from Covid-19 in front of the 28 de Agosto hospital in Manaus
The sign reads: ‘Miss you.’ Photograph: Bruno Kelly/ReutersEmergency and health services in Manaus are also buckling under the strain
with ambulances roaming for up to three hours in search of hospitals with space to admit the patients they have collected
“There’s a shortage of mechanical ventilators
Everything is lacking,” said Dr Domício Magalhães Filho
the technical director of the ambulance service
Experts and officials say multiple factors explain the intensity of the catastrophe affecting the Amazon region’s biggest city
One is that the coronavirus epidemic has struck at the tail end of the rainy season
when respiratory illnesses are rife and hospitals already stretched
Another is that Manaus’s chronically underfunded health service was poorly equipped and understaffed even before medical workers began contracting Covid-19 themselves
But many also blame corruption and the government’s failure to effectively implement containment measures once Covid-19 was detected. Only on 23 March – 10 days after the first case was confirmed – did the state governor declare a state of emergency
ordering all non-essential businesses to close
“We took too long to ask people to stay at home,” said Leonardo Steiner
which is a four-hour flight north of São Paulo
social distancing is being flouted in some areas on the city’s outskirts
with huge queues outside banks and locals refusing to wear masks or remain at home
View image in fullscreenRelatives of a coronavirus victim react at the Dr João Lucio Pereira Machado hospital in Manaus last week. Photograph: Bruno Kelly/Reuters“Part of the city seems like it couldn’t care less – it’s as if nothing is happening,” said Barros, the photographer.
The mayor admitted he had failed to keep people indoors but said Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, should shoulder much of the blame for deliberately undermining such measures. “We don’t have hurricanes here. We don’t have tsunamis. Here the tsunami was having disregarded … social isolation.”
“It saddens me to know these lives could have been saved and weren’t saved, in part because Brazil’s main leader … said it was OK to go out,” Virgílio added.
Marcia Castro, a Harvard University demographer who specialises in public health in the Brazilian Amazon, said it was unrealistic to expect people to follow health ministry advice when 43% of residents didn’t even have access to water to wash their hands. “What this pandemic is doing is throwing wide open the inequalities that have existed for so long,” said Castro, whose studies suggest Manaus’s health system will collapse further in the coming days.
Of the 5,000-plus Covid deaths officially confirmed in Brazil only 274 have been recorded in Manaus. But the recent surge in burials leaves no doubt the real total is far higher.
Read moreTwenty-four hours after Rosemeire Silva’s interment
was rushed unconscious to hospital suffering Covid symptoms – in the front seat of an Uber taxi
Ribeiro’s frenzied arrival was caught on camera – with weeping relatives pleading for help before her lifeless body was eventually hauled inside by staff
“They never even brought a trolley,” said Paula Ribeiro
View image in fullscreenSupporters of the far-right president
protest against the recommendations for social isolation of the governor of Amazonas Manaus on 19 April
Photograph: Bruno Kelly/ReutersRibeiro was declared dead soon after
But it was two days before her children could bury her at the Parque Tarumã – one of 128 funerals that day
The confusion was such that officials initially released a man’s corpse to her family before the mistake was realized
Freitas said he knew little of the ailment that had robbed him of his mother
“It comes from China, doesn’t it?” he said vaguely on Tuesday as President Bolsonaro sparked outrage by shrugging his shoulders at the country’s dead.
“All of us are afraid because we don’t know what tomorrow might bring,” Freitas said. “Today we’re alive. Tomorrow we just don’t know.”
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Dailysportscar covered the first race outing for a new racecar from Brazil
Since then the car has been through further extensive testing
seen a change in engine partner and has been driven in anger at the 3 Hours of Taruma
a round of the Dopamina Endurance Brazil Championship
The car remains largely unchanged other than the engine switch
Early testing and the first races with the car had the chassis paired with a Honda K20 turbo
The Metalmoro team has since moved to a Chevrolet LS3 V8
This move has seen an increase in torque and reliability
a critical improvement the team was looking to make
the lead Project Manager and fellow driver of the AJR told DSC: “The first part of the year we focused on the engine
each time we go to the track something is learned
and today for sure we have a better understanding of the car
but we are still lacking a lot of mileage.”
With further engine and chassis testing completed over the summer
the team was set to end the Endurance championship season with challenge: fielding the car in another round of the Dopamina Endurance Championship
the second 3 hour race at Taruma in late October
The weekend started strongly for the team with a commanding pole position
this quick pace didn’t translate to a strong start for the race as the starting driver of the AJR
mistakenly had the car in 5th gear at the waving of the green flag
dropping the car back through the order early on
The team did not look worried though and while an early fuel stop during the first safety car period put them a lap down
this allowed them to do the rest of the race on just two more stops
A rain shower towards the end of the first stint made the track damp but the difference between slicks and wets was minimal;
Emilio Padron took over at the first scheduled stop
and was very fast in the changing conditions
Padron brought the car back to the lead lap and was now closing in on Stuttgart Motorsport’s Porsche 911
was unable to fight off the AJR and eventually had to come in for wets
made the track very slippery towards the end of the second stint
The team gambled and left Padron out on slicks
which temporarily lost the AJR the lead due to the less optimal tire choice
a young Pro-driver piloting a slightly older Metalmoro creation
without incident and handed over to Juliano Moro
“The most tense part was to run on slick tires in the rain
I didn’t want to risk an off track excursion
I waited (for) the track to dry to get back to speed and overtake the car that overtook me on the wet track
it were perfect conditions until the end of my stint and I think that it wasn’t even necessary to change them [the tires] for the last stint
the potential of the car was to run much faster
but I had already recovered the 1st position and even without pushing the car.”
Moro’s stint was largely dry until the very end of the race where a third shower brought the race to completion just 3 minutes shy of the 3-hour limit
Silue Goessling (Chief Engineer at JLM Racing and AJR’s head engineer) commented on the first race win for the AJR
“With this victory we conclude one more stage of maturing of the project
It gives the feeling of a mission accomplished and gratefulness for the professionalism of all involved
Now we focus on development for the 12 hours of Taruma that happens in the coming month.”
JLM Racing will race the AJR in the 12 hours of Taruma in December
Author: Paul Marquardt
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