Project Overview
The Southern African Research Consortium for Mental health INTegration (S-MhINT) is a research and capacity-building consortium that aims to use implementation science to strengthen regional mental health integration into primary health, antenatal, and chronic care platforms in under-resourced. The S-MhINT is made up of three core components including the Administrative Core, Scale-Up Study and Capacity Building. The Administrative Core aims to establish and engage a trans-disciplinary research consortium of academics, government representatives and non-governmental organizations in South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania to address the burden of common mental disorders in primary health care settings. The Administrative Core will manage all operations including developing monitoring systems for all S-MhINT activities and milestones, and a process evaluation of the partnership.
A year of Covid-19 in SA: Yes, children are resilient, but lockdown has taken its toll
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I’m standing outside the school gates as the Grade Rs line up outside, each one assigned their own block, 1.5m apart. Masks on and no touching each other.
It’s a scene that plays out in schools across South Africa, like something from a dystopian future, only this time it’s real.
Beside them, there’s red tape around the playground, a forgotten relic associated with a carefree life when break time was about pushing your friend on the swing, taking turns on the monkey bars and quick hugs before the bell rings. It’s hard to imagine it was only a year ago.