Tag Archives: mental health

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organization-WHO is asking governments to prioritize mental healthcare as mental illness surges. WHO made the call during a virtual launch of the organization’s biggest assessment of mental health that has been carried out in the last 20 years. The report shows that …

Kampala, Uganda | Patricia Akankwatsa | Canadian-based Ugandan author and mental health professional, Nathan Ssewaali launched his mental health book for children titled, ‘Lola and The Emotions Carousel’ which has received a lot of positive reviews across the world as many have referred to it as helpful to their children’s mental …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mental health experts have expressed the need to address suicidal tendencies in youths. In the past six months, there have been reports of youth committing suicide. In March, Brian Wetaka, a former student of Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering who had graduated in 2019, …

Although people with serious mental illness tend to be less sexually active, they have a higher risk of sexual behaviour Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | People who have or are at a risk of HIV and who are vulnerable to mental health conditions often face other significant individual, structural, …

There’s need for assessments of common maternal mental health conditions, such as postpartum psychosis, anxiety, and bipolar disorders | MANASI KUMAR | The rates of adolescent pregnancies in sub-Saharan Africa are among the world’s highest. The adolescent birth rate is as high as 139 per 1,000 girls in Tanzania and …

Ensuring that children and adolescents have access to quality mental health services is a moral imperative and investment in the future Athens, Greece | Xinhua | A new program launched by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Office for Europe in cooperation with the Greek government on Monday will place the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Psychiatrists want the Public Health (Amendment) Bill to provide for treatment of cases of mental health. The Executive Director of Butabika National Referral Hospital, Dr Juliet Nakku said the concept of mental health is not clearly defined for purposes of the Bill. She said that …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday of a sharp increase in the prevalence of anxiety and depression related to the COVID-19 pandemic, caused largely by social isolation. Young people and women are the worst hit. According to a scientific brief released by the WHO, …

Focused on peer support yields positive results | MICHELLE M. SCHWAB | In many regions of Africa, traditional healers have treated all illnesses, physical and mental, for centuries. As the prevalence of mental illness continues to rise in Uganda, western influence impacts how those with a mental illness can access …

The mental health benefits of horror movies | THE INDEPENDENT | Monsters under the bed, zombies rising from the grave, and chainsaw-wielding maniacs aren’t exactly the first things that come to mind when one is trying to conjure soothing images. Yet, for many horror movie aficionados, part of the draw …