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When free antiretrovirals were introduced to South Africa’s public health system in 2004, the medicines transformed an HIV infection from a death sentence to a chronic disease.
Stepping into a newly created role in HIV Psychiatry in 2006, John Joska (Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town and University of Cape Town [UCT], South Africa) unknowingly landed on the springboard that would shape his future. A psychiatrist and subspecialist neuropsychiatrist, this was not a career path of choice, “but once I got into it”, he says, “I discovered that there was a goldmine of research and a wealth of researchers investigating HIV, mental health, and NeuroHIV.”
It’s possible to significantly reduce the risks of getting vascular dementia through an awareness of contributing lifestyle factors and conditions.
After more than 20 years of living with HIV and having an undetectable viral load for most of the time, Nonceba of Khayelitsha in Cape Town did not consider the virus a health threat.
As the world marked World Mental Health Day on Sunday, the United Nations Children's Fund and the World Health Organization called on African countries to increase investment and access to mental health prevention and response services.