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Rabies is a vaccine-preventable viral disease transmitted by exposure to the saliva of infected warm-blooded animals.

Ebola causes a significant amount of fear - it's important to replace fear of the unknown with accurate knowledge of prevention and treatment.

From the European Interagency Security Forum, this can help agencies prevent, prepare and respond to incidents of sexual violence against staff. 

All of us have times in our lives when we feel low.  Feeling sad or drained is a normal part of life.  Depression, like most mental health conditions falls along a spectrum, but is different than normal grief or sadness.  How can we recognize when we’ve tipped into a more damaging type of depression requiring adjustment and support? Fortunately, depression is treatable.

هل تشاهد أو تدعم أو تقرأ بانتظام عن الأفراد الذين يعانون من الصدمات أو يتعرضون لها؟

هل أنت عامل في المجال الإنساني أو مراسل إخباري أو تعمل في خدمة الأشخاص الذين يقاسون المعاناة؟سيكون هذا المستند نافعًا لك.

How to help a co-worker who may be suicidal: If you have never had thoughts of ending your life, it can be difficult to relate with someone who is. It is always important to take your co-worker (or anyone else) seriously if they say something about ending their life or not wanting to live.

Traumatic events may produce powerful emotions: fear, anger, disgust, shame. Strong emotions like these don’t just dissipate into thin air but may be shared and transferred wherever encountered.

The death of a friend, colleague or family member is very distressing, even devastating.  And depending on the nature of your loss, the impact and grieving process will be unique to each person.

“You usually don’t realize you’re burned out until afterwards. For example, I like reading as a past-time, but I remember a time when I sat down to read and I couldn’t get past a few sentences before my mind just turned off—that’s when I realized something was really wrong.”

The extent of your wellbeing and effectiveness will largely depend on how well you manage stress. And in high-stress, fast paced emergency work, self-care usually feels counter-intuitive.