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The Caribbean nation has led the way in taking psychiatric patients out of institutions, but funding challenges remain

Elri Voigt asks the experts how conditions like major depression and bipolar disorder are diagnosed and treated in the public sector in South Africa.

Elri Voigt asks how conditions like major depression and bipolar disorder are diagnosed and treated in the public sector in South Africa.

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-disc...

A year of Covid-19 in SA: Yes, children are resilient, but lockdown has taken its toll Share 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 tim...