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WHO urges increase in suicide-prevention efforts
By EUobserver
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged countries to increase suicide-prevention efforts, after months of living with the Covid-19 pandemic. "Many of the risk factors for suicide - job loss, financial stress and social isolation - [are] still very much present," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Every year, more people die as a result of suicide than HIV or war. In 2019, more than 700,000 people committed suicide.