The president of Mental Health Spain, Nel González Zapico, has urged to stand by those who are going through grief due to suicide, who are often affected by "social misunderstanding and a feeling of loneliness," and has emphasized the need to validate and normalize all the emotions they experience in...
The Ministry of Health has launched the campaign "Come closer, listen, accompany... repair," an action that aims to give greater visibility to psychosocial disability, combat the associated stigma, and promote a more inclusive society through the care of the bonds between people.According to the Ministry itself, psychosocial disability refers to...
The State Coordinator of HIV and AIDS (Cesida) has launched "Language as a Vehicle of Stigma," a sensitization campaign conceived and led by people with HIV that aims to curb the use of stigmatizing language and hate speech.Through various videos disseminated on social media, the proposal highlights how words can...
Sixty-four percent of those diagnosed with schizophrenia live with the fear that they will never lead a normal life. This is reflected in the report "Beyond the Visible: Uncovering the Hidden Factors and the Impact of Stigma on Schizophrenia," prepared by the pharmaceutical company Teva.The document is based on a...
The doctor expert in addiction care Felipe Yobino, a member of the board of directors of the Spanish Society of Dual Pathology (SEPD), has drawn attention to the existence of "a gap" in the care of addictions and other mental disorders in LGTBI+ people, which causes delays in detection and...
People living with HIV continue to face obstacles, stigma, and a lack of adequate information during pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding, despite significant scientific advances in recent decades, as specialists highlighted at the XXX ViiV Conference for NGOs, held under the slogan "30 years advancing together."The meeting brought together more than...
The Network for Addiction Care (UNAD) has presented a ten-point plan aimed at information professionals in order to combat "the stigma of people with addictions" in the press and other media, offering a series of guidelines for journalists "with the aim of promoting more rigorous information".The entity, which has the...
MADRID, 1 (EUROPA PRESS)The endocrinologist and Nutrition specialist Cristóbal Morales has underlined that overweight and obesity are not explained solely by diet and sports practice, but are conditioned by genetic, biological, social, and environmental factors, and that their origin can be located in the maternal womb or in early stages...
The State Coordinator of HIV and AIDS (Cesida) has launched the campaign "The Test Matters", an awareness action whose purpose is "to promote HIV testing, encourage early diagnosis and continue to combat the stigma associated with the virus from a close, positive and prejudice-free approach".As the entity has detailed, the...
The Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (SEPSM) has urged an end to the stigma that still weighs on mental disorders and for citizens to distinguish between transient emotional distress and an illness that requires treatment, with the aim of avoiding the trivialization of these pathologies."We have a huge...