Johannes Marisa, president of the Medical and Dental Private Practitioners Association of Zimbabwe, linked the high unemployment rate to substance abuse among youth, resulting in a surge in mental health cases. He mentioned that substance-induced psychosis is currently prevalent, with drugs such as cr...
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that engulfed the world from 2019 to date has not only exposed the failure by national governments to decisively deal with the pandemic, it has also posed serious questions about the intersections of COVID-19, women and mental...
The counselling Banda received was part of the problem-solving therapy that hundreds of grandmothers, known as “lay health workers,” are trained to administer on simple park benches located at health clinics around Zimbabwe. Launched in 2005, it is an innovative strategy that has been re...
“Our research has shown that there is a yawning treatment gap for mental health in Zimbabwe and Africa,” Chikaura said. “An article by Doctors Without Borders (2017) stated that Zimbabwe has 20 registered clinical psychologists and nine mental health institutions. With a population that is ov...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A young Zimbabwean who has set off on a run to raise funds for mental health patients says her friends think she is crazy trying to do 724 kilometers (450 miles) in 17 days. "I intend to prove them right," Nell English told The Associated Press. "I a...
Interpersonal violence leaves women vulnerable to a host of mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, suicidality, and substance use disorders. Depression is highly prevalent among women who experience male partner violence, which is often repetitive and concealed. Depression and PTSD, wh...
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Building mental health workforce capacity through training and retention of psychiatrists in Zimbabwe Despite the need to improve the quantity and quality of psychiatry training in sub-Saharan Africa (), very little is known about the experiences of psychia... MA Abas,SM Nhiwatiwa,W Mangezi,.....
Global mental health applies the principles of global health to the field of mental health. Over the years, global mental health has advocated the cause of increasing access to mental health care through promoting the prioritization of mental health in g
doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.23205 visual abstract icon Visual Abstract Key Points Question Does the Friendship Bench intervention improve antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence, viral suppression, and mental health symptoms in people living with HIV in rural Zimbabwe? Findings In this cluster ...