Thank you!
Nearly 1,000 people participated at the live broadcast or watched the recording of the meeting on Mental Health in Africa, that took place on 30 November.
We are very happy and excited to have been able to share our knowledge with you.
During the meeting we talked about how still hundreds of thousands of people with mental health problems in Africa are excluded and relegated to the margins of social life.
Feared for their potential dangerousness, they often end up being chained up for days, months or an entire lifetime. Their fate is the result of prejudice and ignorance, but also of the absence of treatment services.
According to the World Health Organisation, 75% of cases of mental illness are concentrated in low-income countries. Yet, African governments invest less than 1% of their health investments in mental health and the continent suffers from a frightening shortage of psychiatrists and mental disorders specialists.
But in various parts of the continent, a new and more conscious approach to mental illness is spreading, combining Western and traditional medical knowledge. And there is no lack of virtuous examples of professionals and specialised centres successfully caring for those suffering from mental disorders, including our organisation, present in Somaliland and Somalia since 1996.
Has this little summary caught your curiosity? Very good!
You can catch up with the meeting here.
The event was organised by GRT and Africa Rivista with the contribution of the Italian Cooperation Agency for Development and Cooperation in the framework of the AID 11514 initiative.