HEALTH WARNING
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My experience is…

Interviews with men and women who have seen the impact of Covid-19.
Men and Covid-19
- Lennie: 'I went from a mild breathing difficulty to 100% oxygen overnight'
- Martin: 'I forgot the word "ventilator"'
- Mike: 'I had my 70th birthday in a coma'
- John: 'I've lost nine friends to the pandemic'
- Andrew, 28: 'Even our sex-life has been affected'
Lockdown and beyond
- Eric: 'Now I've got FOGO: fear of going out.'
- John W: 'Jogging, writing, this has been an opportunity…'
- Kenny: 'Covid-19 has shown how much men's groups are needed'
Key workers
- NURSE - A nurse practitioner describes another tough 12 hour shift with male patients on a Covid-19 ward in a London hospital
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - 'I can't be violent, I'm a vegetarian' - the helpline teams on the domestic abuse frontline
- PROFESSOR OF DIVERSITY: 'Our world class equality tools are absent from our Covid-19 response'
- SAMARITANS: 'Talking can be life-saving'
What about you?
If you're a man with a Covid story to tell, we'd like to hear from you: have you or someone close to you had the virus? Has the virus or lockdown changed your life for better or worse? Are you running a service for men? What's it been like for you?
- Take our survey (if you've had the virus)
- Or contact us by email or by Twitter @menshealthforum
The Men’s Health Forum need your support It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking. In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to. It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for. We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing. Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can. |