The group conducts community-based sessions aimed at promoting mental well-being, reducing stigma, and empowering young people between the ages of 15 and 30 to lead healthy lives in Negros Occidental
A PSYCHIATRIST, Major-General Akintunde Akinkunmi (rtd), says the Federal Government’s passage of the National Mental Health Bill is not enough to expand
A PSYCHIATRIST, Major-General Akintunde Akinkunmi (rtd), says the Federal Government’s passage of the National Mental Health Bill is not enough to expand
A report from an international collaborative offers a roadmap to end stigma and discrimination related to mental illness and calls on governments, employers, the media, and others to take an active role.
We welcome the Lancet Commission on ending stigma and discrimination in mental health
by Graham Thornicroft, Charlene Sunkel, and colleagues.1 Ending stigma and discrimination
in mental health is an ambitious request, but the Commission s six goals for stigma
reduction and eight recommendations for action by global organisations, governments,
employers, the health-care and social-care sectors, the media, people with lived experience,
local communities, and civil society provide a blueprint for the way forwards “to
act now to stop stigma and start inclusion”.