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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that one person was killing himself every 40 seconds in the world and that every year more people were committing suicide than war dead.
Hanging, poisoning and gunfire are the most common methods of suicide, the organization said, urging governments to develop suicide prevention plans to help people deal with stress and reduce their lives. access to suicide.
"Suicide is a global public health problem," said the WHO report. "All ages, all races and all regions of the world are affected by this disease, and the loss of all soul means the loss of many things".
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for boys aged 15 to 29 after a motor vehicle accident. It is also the second leading cause of death among girls aged 15 to 19 years. For adolescent males, suicide is the third leading cause of death after road accidents and violence.
The World Health Organization said that nearly 800,000 people commit suicide each year, more than the victims of malaria, breast cancer, war or murder.
Global rates have declined in recent years, declining 9.8% between 2010 and 2016, but these declines have been uneven. In the WHO Region of the Americas, for example, rates increased by 6% between 2010 and 2016.
The report also shows that the number of men who commit suicide in rich countries is almost three times higher than the number of women, unlike low- and middle-income countries where the proportion of suicides of both sexes is more equal .
"Suicide prevention is possible," said the Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Gebreisos. "We call on all countries to develop proven strategies for suicide prevention in their national health and education programs."
Restrictions on access to pesticides are one of the most effective ways of rapidly reducing the number of suicides, FAO said.
The study cites studies in Sri Lanka, where a ban on pesticides has reduced the number of suicides by 70 percent, saving about 93,000 lives between 1995 and 2015.
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