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The Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention at the University of Edinburgh launched in September 2017 with support from an Incubator Grant of the Open Philanthropy Project Fund, on the recommendation of GiveWell, USA.
Group A: Rural villagers/farmers who might get poisoned and therefore benefit from the intervention Location: Hidogama, Anuradhapura Participants’ demographics: Age between 43-57, 2 women and 5 men, farmers, and all pesticide sprayers. Participants’ experience with pesticide poisoning: Family members of two participants were self-poisoned and hospitalized. One participant’s partner was hospitalized due to occupational pesticide......
CPSP works to identify pesticides responsible for most harms if ingested, provide this information to the pesticide regulators to guide their policy making and regulatory decisions, and then observe the effect of these changes on suicides and other effects of pesticides. In 2020-2021, CPSP will continue to cooperate with partners in India and Nepal, and......
A key aim of CPSP’s work on pesticide regulation is to increase capacity for effective pesticide regulation at national level. CPSP aims to increase its work outside of Nepal and India by engaging with regional pesticide regulation bodies, for example the Coordinating Group of Pesticide Control Boards of the Caribbean (CGPC), the Southern African Pesticide......
Removing highly hazardous pesticides from agriculture requires cultural change, including movement to integrated pest management and agroecology methods which preserve natural predators while minimising pesticide use. We support these efforts in a modest way, always trying to identify pivotal points where modest investment of time, people or funds offers the potential for significant impact....
Component parts of the United Nations working on highly hazardous pesticides (FAO, WHO, UNEP) provide technical advice to countries and offer the most effective route to international change and impact, particularly through governing bodies: the World Health Assembly and FAO Conference. CPSP works with the WHO and FAO looking at suicide prevention (WHO) and pesticide......
Bans of HHP will not prevent all suicidal deaths if patients are treated by doctors as if they have ingested potentially lethal pesticides, since treatment for these patients can be hazardous in its own right. We will therefore work with the World Health Organisation to develop international and then national guidelines for the management of......
Ban on hazardous pesticides can save lives without affecting agricultural output A53-years-old laboratory assistant at a reputed hospital in Kathmandu recently bought aluminium phosphide tablets and ingested three of them. He started vomiting immediately, and had to be rushed into emergency. Because of his poor cardiopulmonary status and low mentation, he was intubated and transferred......
One in every 100 deaths is a suicide: campaigners say criminalisation deters people seeking the help they needSarah Johnson Suicide is still considered a crime in 20 countries, punishable by fines of thousands of pounds and up to three years in prison, research has revealed. In many nations children can be prosecuted for attempted suicide......
The Toolkit is an essential instrument in the sound management of pesticides. The sound management of chemicals for the control of pests and plant diseases contributes to a large number of SDGs.https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/fao-pesticide-registration-toolkit-better-decision-better-lives...
The document mentions means restriction and HHP bans as effective strategies https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/343074/9789240031081-eng.pdf...
The Forbes: It’s clear that agrochemicals that are highly lethal to insects and weeds can also be extremely dangerous to people. And much of that human harm involves self-poisoning.https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinero/2021/04/04/the-growing-case-for-banning-pesticides-linked-to-suicides/?sh=55c389b3e124...
Sri Lanka has been awarded a special accolade at Future Policy Award 2021, in recognition of the policies and laws adopted to regulate highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) and to reduce the suicide rate in the country. The UN-backed Award, often referred to as the ‘Oscar on Best Polices,’ celebrates the most effective policy solutions that......
This year’s winners are highlighted in this brochure https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/fpa-brochure-2021-hazardous-chemicals_EN_pages.pdf...
Tens of thousands of people, like teenager Shashikala from Sri Lanka, died from poisoning by a lethal pesticide made in the UK. Hundreds of secret documents and a whistleblower raise questions about whether manufacturer Syngenta put profit before people. The weedkiller Gramoxone, with its active ingredient paraquat, has helped farmers grow food cheaply for decades.......
A former Syngenta scientist alleges lives could have been saved with tweaks to the formulation of weedkiller paraquat Around the world, the deadly dangers of a weedkiller called paraquat are well known. When working with the highly toxic herbicide, farmers and other users take care not to splash or spill even small amounts of the product,......
This report provides a synthesis of the discussions held during the Berlin Forum. It is intended to complement the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) reports and other materials available on the Berlin Forum’s website (https://www.bmu.de/en/berlin-forum-on-chemicals-and-sustainability/). 1. Participation Some fifty high-level speakers contributed to the Forum. These included UN Secretary-General Antó- nio Guterres, German Chancellor Angela Merkel,......
The Toolkit is an essential instrument in the sound management of pesticides. The sound management of chemicals for the control of pests and plant diseases contributes to a large number of SDGs.https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/fao-pesticide-registration-toolkit-better-decision-better-lives...
A paper by Jeong Mi Moon, Byeong Jo Chun, and Yong Soo Chohttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15287394.2016.1172529?scroll=top&needAccess=true...
Abstract Background: Nepal recorded 5754 suicides in 2018-19 – a high number for a relatively small country. Over 24% of these suicides were by poisoning, most by ingestion of highly concentrated agricultural pesticides. Nepal has actively regulated pesticides to reduce their health impacts since 2001. We aimed to analyse Nepal’s history of pesticide regulation, pesticides responsible......
Intentional pesticide poisoning is a major clinical and public health problem in agricultural communities in low and middle income countries like Nepal. Bans of highly hazardous pesticides (HHP) reduce the number of suicides. We aimed to identify these pesticides by reviewing data from major hospitals across the country and from forensic toxicology laboratories....
Dhanarisi J, Shihana F, Harju K, Mohamed F, Verma V, Shahmy S, Vanninen P, Kostiainen O, Gawarammana I, Eddleston M. A pilot clinical study of the neuromuscular blocker rocuronium to reduce the duration of ventilation after organophosphorus insecticide poisoning. Clinical Toxicology 2019, in press. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15563650.2019.1643467 Arya V, Page A, Gunnell D, Dandona R, Mannan H,......
