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Mental health voices from Africa: experiences and lessons learned

Report on the workshops

Read here the reports of the workshops in thematic groups.

Leadership and governance: integrating mental health care (MHC) into public health systems

Thinking about and organising mental health provision raises the question of governance, which is as fundamental as it is diverse in how it applies across countries and regions …

User participation in mental health services

The fact that mental health services are still underdeveloped in Africa raises, among other issues, the question of user participation. Communities’ …

Community mental health services

UOne of the most widely shared observations, in all countries and cultures, was the stigmatisation and the difficulty of considering mental health without demonising it. In this respect …

Decentralisation of mental health care

For many African countries, most of the structures and competent personnel are located in the capital. This state of affairs raises the question of how accessible care is in the provinces …

Mental Health of Children and Young People in Street Situations (CYPS)

The CYPS are a population at the crossroads of the themes of protection, education, mental health and health support. Multidisciplinary by necessity …

Integration of mental health in communities

Experiments stemming from the currents of institutional psychotherapy have shown the therapeutic benefits for patients of opening up the care space and including social and …