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The World Health Organization is not killing children in Gaza

Phото: who.int It is not true that the World Health Organization is killing children in Gaza. On the contrary, WHO representatives are constantly delivering medical and non-medical aid to Gaza, where hospitals have been demolished and conditions for medical treatment are dreadful. WHO collects donations for Gaza and relentlessly calls for a ceasefire in the region. WHO has representatives on...

No other solution for the whooping cough but the vaccine

Children who haven’t been vaccinated should not go to kindergartens if we want to avoid epidemics that threaten the health and life of both children and seniors. This is the position of the epidemiologists who insist on vaccinating the population, in compliance with the proposal of the Commission for Infectious Diseases to declare a whooping cough epidemic in Skopje,...

Contrary to the disinformation that they are childless, most of the European leaders have children

Photo: Bruno on Pixabay A Facebook post falsely claims that the leaders of EU member states have no offspring. A Truthmeter fact-check, however, proved that most of the prime ministers and presidents of EU Member-States have children, including the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen who has seven children. The post, in fact, demonizes Western values that...

Ukraine is not conscripting persons under 18 years of age; the women are enrolled in the military register, but that does not imply their conscription

Ukraine lowered the age ceiling for military conscription from 27 to 25 years, but does not conscript persons younger than 18. Conscripting children in the Armed Forces is against the law in Ukraine. As far as Ukrainian women are concerned, they have been enrolled in the military register since 1st October 2022, but that does not automatically imply that...

Lies about alleged people and organ trafficking in Ukraine are spread tendentiously and without evidence

Photo: Screenshot from the video The claims about the alleged trafficking of people and organs in Ukraine are not substantiated with evidence and are based on arbitrary positions of the YouTuber Morris, known for spreading such disinformation in his show on previous occasions. This is familiar Russian propaganda and disinformation, according to which Western countries, allegedly, are abusing the war...

Mel Gibson is not making a documentary on child sex trafficking in Ukraine

Photo: Screenshot - Twitter Mel Gibson is not making a documentary on child sex trafficking. The founder of a non-profit organization in Utah dealing with child sex trafficking, previously suggested the actor to provide initial support for a documentary, but he confirmed for Associated Press that Gibson was not involved in the making of the film, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing...

Missing children from Cleveland cannot be compared with those taken from Ukraine

Photo: Erik Drost on Wikimedia Commons The missing children from Cleveland and those taken from Ukraine cannot be compared at all. The context and circumstances are totally different. The circumstances of the children from Cleveland have not been clarified yet and there is no indication of an established pattern or tendency that they all disappeared in the same way. They...

It is not true that Ukraine is mobilizing minors

Photo: Screenshot from the video There were also attempts previously on social networks to accuse Ukraine of mobilizing children by using videos of young-looking boys. But, that is not true – according to Ukrainian laws, only adult persons can be conscripted by the Army, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text below:   We are fact-checking...

Manipulation: Putin portrayed as a hero who saved Ukrainian children!

The claims presented in the post that Putin is saving children from the “pedophile clutches of the west”, are pure fabrication and conspiracy theory without evidence or facts. The Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Putin for committing war crimes with the deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories in Russia. The claim in the...

Truthmeter.mk: Thirty Children with Cerebral Palsy Live In Isolation in Ohrid, the State Is Silent

Children with cerebral palsy in Ohrid live in complete isolation. They do not have any day care centers. Parents complain that their children are discriminated against and excluded from society, Truthmeter.mk writes.   Author: Sonja Rilkovska   Children with cerebral palsy from Ohrid face total isolation. Excluded from the educational process and social life, fully disconnected, they are locked in their homes. There...

Truthmeter.mk: Small Steps Towards Big Changes For Children With Disabilities in Macedonian Education

Educational inclusion is a process that lasts more than two decades, which is being delayed not only due to bad laws but also due to low public awareness, Truthmeter.mk writes.   Author: Zoran Dimovski   Forty students with disabilities from Polog, starting this school year have educational assistants who provide support in learning, within the schools where they attend classes. This type of support...

Pâtés, ketchup, mayonnaise, margarine and artificial sweeteners to be excluded from kindergarten menus in North Macedonia

The Task group for the revision of the Rulebook for the norms and the standards of nutrition in the kindergartens held a working meeting in the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of North Macedonia. Some radical changes were on the table. The Task group recommends increased intake of fresh fruits and vegetables, but also replacing the conserved food with...

North Macedonia Health Minister: The acquisition of ‘painless’ glucose monitors has started

Two days after Meta.mk's published its interview with the 16-year-old Mia Chichkarikj which suffers from juvenile diabetes Type 1, Venko Filipche, the health minister of North Macedonia announced acquisition of 'painless' glucose monitors. That was what Mia had requested in the interview when she stated that the greatest wish she has was for all the children in North Macedonia...

Dr. Stojanova- Atanasovska: COVID-19 has been increasingly attacking the children in North Macedonia

At the doctor's surgery "Mediko Marija" every day there are patients who are complaining of issues typical for stomach viruses, but later it proves to be COVID-19, says Dr. Vesna Stojanova - Atanasovska, a general medicine doctor. According to her findings in the last period, more and more children and teenagers are complaining about issues that, after the tests,...

The children in Gevgelija aren’t positive to Covid-19, there will be additional examinations to determine what is happening

A team of specialists today will be examining the type of respiratory infection after the Ministry of Health informed that in the past month at the hospital in Gevgelija, medical help was asked by parents of 50 children and babies with symptoms of respiratory infections, unspecific for this period of the year. Macedonia's Health Minister Venko Filipche gave a...

Last week 6 children and 21 employees in kindergartens in North Macedonia tested positive for COVID-19 and 309 are in self-isolation

Since the kindergartens were reopened, 18 children and 55 employees have tested positive for COVID-19, and it he period between 9th and 16th of October, there were 6 children and 21 employees who were registered positive. It is evident that the number of infected is on the rise, stressed today the Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Jagoda Shahpaska. She...

North Macedonia’s Government with a decision for re-opening of the kindergartens on 9th of September

The government of North of Macedonia in the meeting yesterday adopted the Information on the re-opening of the institutions for care and education of children – kindergartens/Early child development centres, which is planned for 9th of September, the Government's Press Office informs. In the next period, the kindergartens around the country will have to prepare for work. "The government recommends...

The parents demand online teaching, Ministry of Education adamant – students will attend school from September

"Support for online teaching in the 2020/2021 school year" is the name of a Facebook Group which counts 3.500 members from North Macedonia, and these days, when stil there are many unknowns about the start of the new academic year, the commentaries are reaching the fever pitch. Many parents announced they won't let their children attend school as, in...

Even unvaccinated first year pupils will be able to attend school?

The Minister of Education and Science Arber Ademi thinks that one of the options for finding a solution is that unvaccinated children to be enrolled in school, and then to be vaccinated. "Meta" news agency has found out that he and Minister for Health Venko Filipche will make a decision today about what to do with the children who...

61% of children aged 3-6 do not attend kindergarten

A new global report by UNICEF points out that 176 million pre-school age children do not attend pre-schools and calls on governments around the world to increase their investment to secure the best start for each child. In our country, almost 41,000 children - approximately 61 percent of pre-school children (3 to 6 years old) - do not participate...