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Fact Crescendo CambodiaHealth & medicine

ជំងឺ​អេដស៍​ថ្ងៃ​នេះ​ផ្ទុះ​ឡើង ១​ពាន់​នាក់​ជាង​ហើយ ឱ​ជីវិត​ប្រពន្ធ​កូន​នៅ​ផ្ទះ​ទៅ​ជា​យ៉ាងណា បើ​ប្ដី​លួច​មាន​ដៃ​គូ​ច្រើន។

Publisher’s rating: False

The claim said that more than 1,000 people had been infected with AIDS in one day and warned about the risk to wives whose husbands had multiple sexual partners. Fact Crescendo reports that this claim circulated on Facebook in late July 2023, including in a post dated July 28. Its investigation asked Cambodia’s Ministry of Health for clarification and compared the claim with figures cited from the National AIDS Authority and UNAIDS. The article says the ministry spokeswoman rejected the claim as untrue. The Cambodia-specific figure reported by the National AIDS Authority’s president, Ieng Mouly, was about four newly infected people per day in Cambodia that year—not more than 1,000. The article also gives annual figures: 1,400 new infections in 2022, up from 1,100 in 2021. These figures address the claim’s scale and distinguish a daily count from an annual one. The review also considered the possibility that the post referred to the world rather than Cambodia. It cites UNAIDS data of 1.3 million new infections worldwide in 2022, which the article calculates as roughly 3,500 to 4,000 per day globally. That global estimate still does not support the post’s figure of more than 1,000 in one day as a Cambodia-specific claim. The evidence presented therefore contradicts the viral post’s central number and its implication that this was a daily Cambodian total.

dpaHealth & medicine

In den Niederlanden dürfen Ärzte Menschen mit leichter Behinderung oder Autismus töten, auch wenn ein Patient keinen Wunsch auf Sterbehilfe äußert. Das betrifft auch Kinder unter 12 Jahren.

Publisher’s rating: Falsch. Ärzte müssen strenge Kriterien einhalten. Der Wunsch auf ein Ende des Lebens muss vom Patienten ausgehen und kann von niemandem anderen entschieden werden. Es darf keine vernünftigere medizinische Alternative geben. Für Kinder zwischen 1 und 12 Jahren gibt es keine Regeln für Sterbehilfe.

LupaHealth & medicine

Eu estou aqui para alertar os pais do Brasil a respeito desse documento emitido na data de hoje, 25 de julho de 2022, pela Sociedade Brasileira de Pediatria. [...] Para dizer para os pais do Brasil que, simplesmente, a Sociedade Brasileira de Pediatria reforça a necessidade da urgente inclusão de crianças, dos seus filhos, dos seus netos, no Programa Nacional de Imunizações contra a Covid-19. [...] A menos que você esteja preparado para ir no velório do seu filho, procure se informar e jogue isso aqui no lixo [...]

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PA MediaHealth & medicine

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has admitted Covid-19 vaccines can cause multiple sclerosis (MS).

Publisher’s rating: Evaluation: Misleading. The claim was based on the inclusion of an abstract in the WHO Covid-19 Research Database that summarises a study that found a potential link to coronavirus vaccines in two cases of MS. While the research found a potential link, it did not prove the disease was caused by the vaccine, according to both the WHO and MS experts. One of the study authors added that while the research showed a link in these two cases, their data showed a Covid-19 infection carried a higher risk of triggering MS than the vaccine did.