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to save more than just her own job. and also one new scientific study suggests that coven 19 vaccines can affect menstruation, should pregnant women still get the shelter? ah, that 1st to columbia, where one young college graduates can't find any work. and she's not the only one. amanda liber todd walks the streets of bogo talk like she used to as a student because she currently has little else to do. she's among the 30 percent of young colombians who haven't been able to find work since the pandemic. amanda scans, the internet and social media looking for job offers. she's exhausted pretty much every avenue. please ask isn't going to be this hard because he goes through the application process and i, and i don't how you, why you did get the job. i'm even applying for jobs. i'm not qualified for because

i don't know what else to do with the general. they always went to years experience, and i only have 6 months here. thing with the medical effect. mcguffey, nana columbia's economy is still reeling from the pandemic unemployment. to settle 11.3 percent. well, 58 percent of those working only have a short term contract or casual labor experts. a young people on the worst affected coin must raleigh can no longer for years. yeah, because it was almost cal 1st time job seekers with no work experience, it's really tough numbers. and those who do have some experience already have a network of colleagues load, alabama. so that's why young people don't have that happen. they're just starting to develop contacts in a holy north order, some bizarre. okay, so the situation is really hard for them. whether we go with them. the crisis is also starting to take a mental and emotional toll on columbia's unemployed youth. c s can stand figure can okay, what is it a boy you might have constant insomnia. now cousin, which is not just

a few bad night bunkers had your, i go to bed at 10, the only sleep $23.00 a and then we came up and i get up to say is elena if but, and on the melody. when i go to bed, i'm thinking, what am i going to do it for? what can i do? i have my money in a job, bowden and all i can think is what's in store for me. okay, so when am i going to start my career? but out of how will i and, and income a here to say erica moriello it out of he didn't even get a saw. experts are alarmed by growing levels of insomnia and anxiety among young people. they say it's an emergency that requires urgent action. a study conducted by the world health organization and local psychologists showed that 70 percent of young colombians now have difficulties sleeping. and if you look his studies while he's and or, or as young people feel desperate and deeply insecure, when they think about their future more you fietta to, they have no way of knowing with any reasonable amount of certainty. what the immediate future holds. randall is that and they feel they have no power to change

that angle. they're rational nobliss at this. i look estoppel to be needed. and so there again truly worried and disappointed with their lives. as he said to him, if you don't put a fondle, malice, that will not get on this a song. most young colombians feel they're facing bigger challenges than those experienced by their parents generation. that mean could, i'll go ahead record. i think i look back on my youth with great sadness when you kill us. bill twenty's is supposed to be so fantastic o e m. yes, but i think i just remember how sad i was in the yard. i remembered me crying and being anxious in all thought, my twenties would be awesome when we met. are you joseph? that mean, if given we, my moment is a very bad times we have just finished studying columbia and have no work experience in columbia. who things are especially tough for young people who don't get any support from their family. the pen tamika presented columbia with a whole new set of challenges. in

mexico, anxiety disorders and depression became more widespread during the pandemic. sondra vargas wanted to help and found it a ppo. cuz it, the initiative provides mental health care that everyone can access for free online . at the end of march 2020, prior to any lockdown measures in mexico, sandra vargas already predicted the emotional stress upon them. it would bring in its weight. the psychoanalyst responded by creating a po, covered or covert support an online platform providing free therapy. just fill out a form and get a list of professionals available 24 hours a day. the immediacy and anonymity of the platform are key to people, overcoming inhibitions about seeking psychological health in la accessibility that yeah,

the accessibility was important for the different wiley. but if we have to talk to someone on the phone to make an appointment, we tend to push it out and look it up because it's embarrassing and scary it the lifeline was there. it is that above you does work. estella, i in mexico, the number of people experiencing mental health problems tripled during the pandemic. a cellphone, anxiety disorders affected up to half of the population and almost a quarter of all mexicans developed signs, depression model. then it will. pablo saver, who is in the program, is one such case level. often it was the pandemic that triggered all worsened existing mental health issues. a, you grew up with him and he was doing it manifested itself in the form of anxiety. i started eating war and i gained more weight. i suffer from chronic depression and had a major break down and i didn't feel like doing anything, not even going to the supermarket, i mall and the why. so with a ppo kobe,

it quickly gained momentum. michael garcia is among its 90 volunteers. he feels the project is a good opportunity to overcome preventing taboos and mexico concerning mental health idioms equal to the element. this appeal is deeply culturally engrained. that if you ask for emotional support, you obviously can take care of your own problems in those as esl in the i'm thank selective stigmatization stops us from asking for help. it seem as weakness in some of an effect. the case from that ability that we have on file so far, the projects webinars of helps them to 1000 people. they've given individual sessions to more than 600 patients from across mexico and also from other countries . most of them contacted up or you're covered during a time of crisis, like monica savannah did when she called from the mexican state of war haka. the pandemic triggered the separation from a husband. ringback yet that in the 30 i,

you know, is in crisis that day and i couldn't stop crying and i locked myself in my room and my children were in the living room. yeah. yeah. that helped me a lot at the time on a per year cove. it really saved me because i felt so lost and earlier, despite the increasing demand in the last decade, the mexican government has allocated only 2 percent of its total health budget to the treatment of mental health issues. and most of it goes into the maintenance of psychiatric hospitals. see, have been as a stumbled lord on the what is people the most columbia we're barely managing to deal with diarrhea and flu, was we still have a long way to go with mental disorders. they're not priorities. duty, that is the law. the last on the that right after her training at the mexican psychoanalytic association, sandra vargas, specialized in crisis management. she offered psychological support to those affected by the 2017 earthquake in mexico city. but the list gladly loving life is

finally returned to normal in mexico, on the appoint. corporate platform is receiving fewer requests, but it serves to strengthen the network of therapists who are interested in reaching out to a population in need. eco, manon compromised focus on your layman and i'm really amendment in the has to come about in a very organic way. as soon as is referring people to us, you need low cost mental health care. hey, at this young, the sequel luca, aha, coastal areas has been almost gay. sometimes we think, does no one lie to hell them, us eco, cuz glistening salmon can really save lives, though, boys are about to be vastly permanent. annual sandra of august on the point could have helped to improve mental health in mexico during upon demik. and we'll continue their work going forward. and now to a question that concerns roughly half of the world's adult population. does the coven vaccination have an effect on menstruation? according to a new study? the answer is yes. d w reporter hangs when lee talks to one of the studies or says

doctor catherine lee of washington university in saint louis. i totally so according to your study, how did cove it vaccination affect people's menstruation? what were the major findings? our study took place as an online survey. and what we found in our survey, you, which i should point out, is not representative of the general population because people could opt into our survey. but what we found was around 40 percent of people experienced a heavier period after one or both of their coven vaccines around 40 percent had no difference in the heaviness of their bleeding. and the remainder of people were about the same or maybe slightly lighter. how about people who do not usually menstruate, for example, post menopausal women,

or people and gender for me home. we also asked people who normally wouldn't have a period for any number of reasons, including like acting reversible contraceptives like i, u. d. 's that suppressed bleeding, and people who are on gender affirming hormones. a lot of those folks noticed that they had breakthrough bleeding. and the 3rd group that we really focus on in this paper is the experiences of post menopausal people. so people who are at least 12 months past, normally having a period who noticed that they had breakthrough bleeding after getting their covet vaccine. so what is the mechanism causing these changes? of course, we have our hypotheses and we, what we think is happening is that the vaccine is making this big immune response. that's why the vaccine is so incredibly effective. this is involving

a lot of inflammatory processes as well. and we know that the uterus is already important. i mean, oregon, it uses these inflammatory processes as part of the signaling for growing and shedding every month. and so it's not unreasonable to think that an immune response that involves a lot of inflammatory processes might disturb, in some people, these inflammatory processes for a, you know, a couple of cycles after the vaccine in what a change is temporary or ongoing. so we haven't just closed a followup survey that actually asks about this. and that asks how many periods are for how many months people noticed any changes. and we have not start to analyze that data yet. but anecdotally, but we suspect is that for most people, it's just 2 or 3 periods that they're noticing this. i went to suggest if anyone is very worried, they're bleeding

a lot or it's going on for much longer. they see their doctor because there's probably something else going on that is not just best inflammatory response that we think is happening for some people at the back. same. thanks a lot. what would you like to know about cavity of science correspondent derek williams has been low down on the latest research and analysis. just writing covey producer at d, w dot com this week we received a question from maria abdulla robledo. are there any risks for pregnant women who get vaccinated? it's really great for a change to talk about something where experts are in such a broad agreement. to start with, let's maybe approach this question from the flip side, instead of asking whether there are risks to being vaccinated when you're pregnant . let's ask what the risks are if you aren't vaccinated and they are all the evidence is really pretty unequivocal. many studies have shown that if they catch

coven 19 while they're pregnant, unvaccinated women are a lot more likely to have severe outcomes than vaccinated. women are at this point, almost everyone agrees that getting the disease and having none of the immunity provided by vaccines. that, that compose a major threat to, to both mother and feed us. that's why when it comes to coven night, seen most healthcare authorities now view pregnant women as a vulnerable group. but are there threats lurking in the background adverse effects that may be occur more frequently? or, or dangers. that's proven trickier to quantify because pregnancy is an inherently risky proposition, even before the advent of coven vaccines. miscarriages, for example, occurred about 10 to 20 percent of the time,

all on their own. and women who knew that they were pregnant. but all the data that we have so far involving pregnancy and vaccination, and it's a lot doesn't show an increase in that metric, like every one pregnant women can and do experience mostly minor side effects after receiving vaccines. but according to the world health organization, many pregnant women all over the world have now been vaccinated against stars. covey too. and there have been no worrisome signs that it has affected either their health or that of their babies. in fact, the opposite could actually be true. there are some studies indicating that the anti bodies that pregnant women produce after vaccination, that they not only help protect the fetus from infection with the corona virus

during the pregnancy, but also after birth. and a fairly small one sided on the cdc website, for instance, it tracked levels of antibodies in infants. 6 months after they were born and it found that the children of women who had been vaccinated against coven 19 during their pregnancy, that they appeared to be even better protected from the disease than the children of women who were infected with covered 19 during their pregnancy. many questions remain open, of course, but the advice has, has really evolved and it's now pretty unanimous among health care authorities. if a pregnant woman hasn't been vaccinated yet, they say, then she should definitely take the step m dash a lack of prospects in their own country. is driving people around the world to look

for work elsewhere. after some time in chile, a young mother from venezuela has been stranded in a town in northern spain. but he had to, almost as 3rd of the population is threatened by poverty lease, cassandra von never thought she would have to cue to meet her and her babies basic needs. nevertheless, covered 19, let this venezuelan mother without her job in chile and forced her to migrate to spain. but now she's one of the beneficiaries of an aide organization there again long. no, no, it's how much i never thought of asking for help of any kind thing. and by if they're not being upon danica, i wouldn't have had to come into the course. sheena economic as a help me go and i do. the catina economic are located in santander in northern spain is a charitable organization that meets the basic needs of societies most vulnerable in a resident among their services such as social dining or a hygiene facility. they provide food to more than $1000.00 families,

monthly seed up a naming can a month out. and in the webpage i was giving eloquent medical manipulation, escalades receipt. and i, when they come with us and says, the physician that he says was he guess i hit the cash real, but that up on them, you know, that contributor fell writing civil into sustan's utopia and push political. he had to tell more than 1000000 people have fallen into poverty in the mediterranean country. a recent human rights watch report denounces the administration's failure to protect the most vulnerable people, working hospitality industry, single parents, older people on state pensions really suffer during the pandemic. as a result of the economic shock, those people found themselves in a situation where they desperately needed a state assistance to social security system. and that assistance was very, very slow, and coming was very difficult to reach. at the start of the pandemic, the spanish government, like other countries,

expanded existing unemployment support programs. but the furlough support left out people working in the informal economy had did not adequately cover those working seasonally or paid in part under the table. another essential step was fast tracking the introduction of the minimum vital income of social assistance program introduced in may 2020 but it's only reached 9 percent of the people living at risk of poverty. it's a basic, very, very basic low level social assistance scheme for people who haven't contributed to social security systems. and what it does is it gives a very modest, actually a tiny amount of financial assistance to people between $450.00 to a 1000 euros a month. what people found, as they tried to apply for support through the system was a series of difficulties. first, in trying to apply in trying to document their need in the way this system calculated that their level of need. it was a good system at some level,

but it really failed on a number of bureaucratic levels. and in terms of implementation, spain is a relatively commer among european countries in having a nation wide social assistance program. the experts agree. it's closely linked to the increase of those who live at risk of falling into poverty called o construct. director of the human rights center clinic at the university of essex, affirms that poor social protection, his spain's achilles heel. their canal theatrical mil espanol la guardia. ty, going on the other load of fun and the blip and meet the st campus on us can nothing unsuccessful, even that he, that it was the inputting gets us or the impair, pissed off can i saw things that 1st athena se, in phoenix at shaheen, that i don't, i don't, i don't even live either like, well, i kept on her fina lester. i'm us will. can i think i think it proportion and i you the answers if yes it will. no middle in seattle that i want us. yeah. any that is

esther amazon means that the machine will talk was difficult for young. cooper. 19 not only brought consequences for people's health tend to pressure on the health systems, but also an economic storm that has wreaked havoc on the lives of the most vulnerable . now, bold government actions are needed to ensure a better and ferrer outcome. in the midst of the pandemic, a woman in ghana has set up a training program for women living on the poverty line without any government support pads. fashion design as they now have the chance to make their own money. a real success story for been to baka lives in shore quarter. a deprived community in gone as capital across. she's a trained fashioned designer and had been able to earn a good income from the profession. but then the

pandemic hit on her livelihood came into threat. losing a secure source of income was challenging. she said, though during the lunch hour being home was given in the income chill, what did you say this was you have to use? and after you one, assume all was identity. assuming that you and your family won't get anything to eat and we'll have to eat a big someone to publish or fill out a way vajella health issues and other things. so um it was, it was not that easy. backer and other workers were sent home in the middle of upon demick after their employer and n g o run fashion business suffered a sales slump on a sudden dip in funding. patricia wilkins is the founder of that and geo, which is basics international and promotes childrens and women's welfare. she faced

the task of keeping backer and others in their jobs and keeping her organisation from shutting down cove. it obviously had every wine on, by surprise, by a storm. it's not something any of us had maybe lived in a lifetime of we heard about, you know, so many pandemic that was so many years ago. but for us, it was a shock, so nobody knew what to do. governments also had to rely on studies and we act so far as i think we went to a panic mode like every one. and we shut down despite the financial pressures and great anxiety. patricia wilkins was able to reopen the angio after only a short closure that many women were dependent on her support and urgently needed food and shelter. bucket work backer and her colleagues expanded their fashion portfolio and began to make face masks. they then ventured into making items like

cloth bags and pillowcases, sales improved dramatically. today, the business is able to sustain itself on its employees. i'm feeling okay. i. so if i think, what if i that's i use my job and is still going on? because this is way for me, i get my money to take care of myself to pay my range. the other thing by myself. clothing with have i need to take out my health as well. and gonna, the pandemic hit women particularly hard 92 percent of women who have a job are in informal work when an economic crisis cause dot sector to collapse, there was limited government support to keep people afloat. the n g o action aid ghana, recently conducted research into the impact of covered on the livelihoods of ghana

and women. it's finding showed that they remain vulnerable nationally or women fall widia infamous sector. now this is a success that does not have job security. this is a sector where happenings within the country can cause a closure to a business. and so if you have a high percentage of your population and being in that sector in b a women, it clearly shows that was a pandemic shots. that would definitely be the ones to bear the brunt of this epidemic. but patricia wilkins is not giving up. every day she works hard to keep their organization up and running without any government support. then to backer on the other women here can breathe a sigh of relief. no, not for now. their income is secure. huh? and that's it for this week. next week, we'll take

a closer look at what side effects coven 19 vaccines can have, and whether in some exceptional cases, they might last longer than expected. there are now years of research and analysis that can be drawn on. d. w. reporters, stephanie. so both spoke with klaus kid to tech, head of the polish institute, to find out more we look forward to seeing you next time. stay healthy. ah, ah, with

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