MEDIA ADVISORY: Launch of LIVE LIFE guide on preventing suicide + webinar on 17 June, 2021

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Wednesday, 16 June 2021

MEDIA ADVISORY

Subject: Launch of LIVE LIFE guide on preventing suicide

When: Thursday, 17 June 2021 14.00-15.00 CEST (08.00-09.00 New York, 17.30-16.30 New Delhi)

Register: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Roy_azJMRryGTjY4npT8GQ

This comprehensive new guide, based on WHO’s LIVE LIFE approach, lays out a clear path to putting in place suicide prevention interventions that have been proven to work. It will be accompanied by a booklet that presents WHO’s latest data on suicide rates around the world by age, region and country, and trends since 2000.

During the last decade, there has been a small reduction in the global rate of suicide. Yet, some countries have seen suicide rates increase and many are not fully committed to suicide prevention. Currently, just 38 countries are known to have a national suicide prevention strategy.

To launch the new guidance, the WHO Director-General will be joined by a panel of guests who are each, in their different ways, helping people have conversations about suicide.

Guests:

and Dr Alexandra Fleischmann, suicide prevention expert, WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Use.

To receive the press release and related materials, embargoed until 14:00 CEST (Geneva time) on 17 May, please write to [email protected]. Interviews with WHO’s lead on suicide prevention can be organized on request.

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