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Invest in disaster-ready mental health services
Image by Total Shape from Pixabay Uganda will join the rest of the world in commemorating World Mental Health Day on 10th October, with the theme, ‘access to services – mental health in catastrophes and emergencies’. Uganda has experienced various emergencies from cholera, ebola and m-pox outbreaks, to flooding in different parts of the country, landslides and the
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Promoting mental health at work is everyone’s role
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay Today we join the rest of the world to commemorate Mental Health Day with the theme, ‘mental health at work’. About 14 million Ugandans have a mental illness which impacts their productivity, income and quality of life. People who experience mental illness are often excluded from work and those that manage to work do
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Strengthen Multisectoral Policies to Promote Mental Health for All
Statistics show that approximately 14 million people experience mental illness in Uganda. While mental health is increasingly getting the attention it deserves, there is a lot that can be done to progress this further. Uganda needs to adapt new collaborative models of mental health promotion and care along with new and innovative ways of working
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