Mental Health
Mental health patients go without proper beds, clothes
Clinics may not be ready for mental health
“Depression was a white people’s illness”
Kites lift mental health to new horizons
Policy guidelines: Child and adolescent mental health
The 26-page guidelines begins with an overview of the determinants of mental health among children and adolescents before reviewing related South African policies and legislation. The document then discusses strategies to build skills among caregivers, teachers and other frontline providers…
Smoking during pregnancy may cause bipolar disorder
Still in the Shadows
Child hunger risks South Africa’s future
New Health-e documentary focuses on mental health
Violence, alcohol and mental disorders
Violence, alcohol abuse and mental disorders are “inextricably linked and pose a major public health challenge”. Yet there is a lack of recognition of the links between the three, and few properly trained healthworkers to recognise and address patients’ substance…
Woman teased about mental disability
VHEMBE. – Gloria Mathukha is used to be called ‘crazy’ or ‘mad woman’, but this doesn’t make it any easier. This 36-year-old woman from Matavhela village in Limpopo has a mentally disability and suffers constant discrimination from members in her…
Mental health patient given home
Vhembe – The Mphephu Royal Council and Masana Private FET College celebrated Mental Health Day in style by donating a house to a mental health patient. The royal family and college donated a four-roomed house to Daniel Mukhoro (25) of…
Grand Challenges Canada tackles mental health in the developing world
PRESS STATEMENT. – Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the Government of Canada, announced a landmark $19.4 million in support of 15 innovative, pioneering projects designed to improve mental health diagnosis and care in developing countries, many of them…
Tik time bomb
Each year around a thousand young women addicted to crystal methamphetamine, or tik, give birth to so-called tik babies in Cape Town. “I started smoking [heroine, dagga and tik] while I was 16 years old,” said Meggan Adams from the…