“The stigmas around mental health are learned behaviors and we are working steadfastly to eliminate stigmas and discrimination,” saysExecutive Director Pamela Hamilton. “With empathy and understanding people can see that mental illness is an illness and it needs to be treated....
One in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders in their lives. Around 450 million people currently suffer from such conditions, placing mental disorders among the leading cause of ill-health and disability worldwide. Even though the numbers are so staggering ...
UNAIDS estimates that the number of people who were newly infected with HIV per year in Latin America remained at around 100 000 per year over the past decade, but that the proportion of infections in people aged 50 years or older increased from 6·6% to 8·6% (table).43 In Peru, ...
Breaking the barriers of finding a good therapist “I see three systemic problems in mental health: the stigma around mental illness, the enormous difficulty to even access care, and the lack of consistent quality in the services provided“, explains Katz. With the shift in culture to a more ...
It was spoken about in hushed tones, or spoken around by people too embarrassed to mention it by name. Today, mental illness is spoken about in similar hushed terms - it is alluded to when someone you know is sick; it is ridiculed when someone famous or someone you don't know is ...
storytellingstreet harassmentOnline and offline spaces where victims shared their experiences with street harassment were instrumental in putting this issue on the political agenda around the world. However, one question in particular sparked uneasiness among French activists: how to deal with stories that...