More and more caregivers are consulting psychiatric institutions to have their children'€™s mental health assessed. Psychiatrists have attributed this to caregivers paying more attention to their children'€™s behavioural patterns than before.
At a week-long international summit in Johannesburg recently, men and women were challenged to step up the fight on gender-based violence.
Discrimination against people with mental disorders makes it difficult to reintegrate them into society. Psychiatric health specialists blame this on the lack of understanding of mental illness and not knowing how to deal with someone who is mentally ill. In this report, we meet someone who has experienced first-hand such discrimination.
Public sector doctors continue to be in short supply in South Africa as many leave the health system because of poor working conditions, bad management and low pay.
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