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!! Background

Following a situation appraisal in 2001, a six year mental health reform programme (Egymen) 2002-7 was initiated by an Egyptian-Finnish bilateral aid project at the request of a former Egyptian minister of health, and the work was incorporated directly into the Ministry of Health and Population from 2007 onwards. This paper describes the aims, methodology and implementation of the mental health reforms and mental health policy in Egypt 2002-2009.

!! Methods

A multi-faceted and comprehensive programme which combined situation appraisal to inform planning; establishment of a health sector system for coordination, supervision and training of each level (national, governorate, district and primary care); development workshops; production of toolkits, development of guidelines and standards; encouragement of intersectoral liaison at each level; integration of mental health into health management systems …

This research explores the question - how do practices in key justice institutions affect the incidence and success of prosecutions of torture perpetrators in Egypt? The research question is grounded in the theory that torture prosecutions are crucial to ending the practice of torture, and based on the judgment that the number of prosecutions of torture perpetrators in Egypt is very small compared to the widespread practice of torture. This research observes practices in three main justice institutions: the Department of Public Prosecutions, the Department of Forensic Medicine and the criminal courts. Based on international and local literature, but also on interviews conducted with lawyers, forensic doctors and human rights activists, the research observes the practices most common to the three institutions, while analyzing their impact on the incidence …

Torture has claimed hundreds of lives while there remains virtual impunity for perpetrators, who either evade accountability entirely or are penalized in a manner disproportionate to the severity of the crime. Meanwhile, state security has expanded its use of enforced disappearance and torture at National Security headquarters, including by electrocution and sexual abuse, with the aim of coercing confessions or causing humiliation.

Author: Basma M Abdel Aziz

This article is concerned with the increasing prevalence of torture in Egypt. Torture is a widespread problem in Egypt, being practiced in the majority of police stations and state security places. It has become a routine practice and is seen daily on a systematic basis. The number of people who are subjected every month to torture is unimaginable. In addition, there are deaths that occur as a result of the torture. However, the Egyptian government does not give clear answers about the issue. Everyone could be exposed to torture, and for different, illogical reasons. The case of Bany Mazar is a horribly clarifying one. The unclear political situation and the absence of democracy play the main role in the highly increasing rate of …

Author: Michael Elnemais Fawzy

Mental health services in Egypt are mainly provided by hospitals with insufficient attention given to integrating mental health into primary care. The majority of the available resources are allocated to a few large centralized psychiatric hospitals. The Institute of Medicine (2001) defines quality clinical care as care that is equitable, timely, safe, efficient, effective and patient-centered. This article describes a three-pronged strategic approach for enhancing mental health services through policies designed to improve quality and equity.

!!Abstract

!!! Purpose

There is no documented evidence on service users’ perceptions of quality of care and observance of human rights in mental health residential facilities in Egypt after the new mental health law passed in 2009. The purpose of this paper is to investigate El-Abbassia Mental Health Hospital in Cairo. Special attention is paid as to the variety of human rights violations which are experienced by the users and the context in which these violations occur.

!!! Design/methodology/approach

A cross-sectional study was performed relying on 36 depth interviews with patients, 58 staff members and 15 family members, reviews of documents and observations by an independent assessment team consisting of the author, another psychiatrist, a nurse and a family member using the World Health Organization Quality Rights Tool …

Biography of Dr Fakhr el-Islam

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For his Egypt installation, JR divided the work’s image file into 4,591 pieces, and determined that each individual piece will be collectible as an NFT. “Thanks to technology and NFTs, it is the first time that anyone can actually collect a piece of the public artwork,” the artist wrote on Instagram.

In general, NFTs are a scam and I hope my artist friends think hard before getting involved in it. What the artist is saying above is misleading, you don't own or collect any part of the original artwork. It is just a digital certificate of authenticity stored on the blockchain. The original artwork isn't stored on the blockchain and the jpeg image can …

Arbitrary Arrests, Discrimination, Entrapment, Privacy Violations

A major step backwards...

"محلل سياسي"

This qualitative study examined the process of Internalized Sexual Stigma (ISS) in a sample of Egyptian gay men. Participants' experience of ISS was explained using the theoretical understanding that it represents an internal form of minority stress, which is the excess and harmful stress often experienced by individuals from stigmatized social categories due to their minority position. Thematic analysis of interviews with eight Egyptian gay males suggested that these men experienced internal minority stress as a result of the sexually-prejudiced messages they received from different sectors of their society, including its non-affirming religious institutions. Moreover, thematic analysis added cultural understanding to this theoretical explanation by producing an emerging theme that highlighted the possible role of societal pressure to meet gender expectations in perpetuating this problem. Recommendations for mental …

Ahram Online , Sunday 19 Apr 2020

The Evergiven saga

مقال باتريك زكي الذي يحاكم عليها أمام محكمة أمن الدولة

<>Mathematicians call on their colleagues and on mathematical societies to support the Egyptian mathematician Laila Soueif and her children <<<<

Thousands of cassette tapes from Egypt in the 80s and 90s.

Related: [[Tapedeck]]

The study found that patients with Covid-19 treated in hospital who “received ivermectin early reported substantial recovery” and that there was “a substantial improvement and reduction in mortality rate in ivermectin treated groups” by 90%.

But the drug’s promise as a treatment for the virus is in serious doubt after the Elgazzar study was pulled from the Research Square website on Thursday “due to ethical concerns”. Research Square did not outline what those concerns were.

A medical student in London, Jack Lawrence, was among the first to identify serious concerns about the paper, leading to the retraction. He first became aware of the Elgazzar preprint when it was assigned to him by one of his lecturers for an assignment that formed part of his master’s degree …

Page with photos and models of different bus models that can be seen in Egypt over the years.

وافق مجلس النواب من حيث المبدأ، اليوم، على مشروع قانون مقدم من الحكومة لإلزام جهات العمل الحكومية والخاصة بإجراء تحليل الكشف عن تعاطي المخدرات لجميع العاملين بها، بشكل مفاجئ، ودوري عند التعيين والترقية، وتوقيع عقوبة الفصل الفوري على كل موظف أو عامل يثبت تعاطيه المخدرات، بدلًا من إحالته للنيابة الإدارية التي توقع عقوبات تبدأ من الخصم من الراتب وتنتهي بالفصل.

ورغم أن مشروع القانون يبدو كرد فعل من الحكومة والبرلمان على حوادث القطارات الأخيرة، بعد ثبوت تعاطي عدد من السائقين والموظفين للمخدرات، إلا أن تقرير لجنة القوى العاملة بالبرلمان أوضح أن الحكومة أرسلت المشروع للمجلس قبل عامين، في آخر مايو 2019، وأن مجلس النواب بتشكيله السابق نظره قبل انتهاء مدته، وبعدها أعادت الحكومة، في يناير الماضي، مطالبة المجلس بتشكيله الحالي بإقرار المشروع، وهو ما قامت على إثره …