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"Living in hell": mentally ill people in Indonesia chained and confined
Lack of mental health care and community support leaves nearly 19,000 Indonesians vulnerable to outlawed practice, finds Human Rights Watch.
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Gregoire Ahongbonon: Freeing people chained for being ill
For almost 30 years, Gregoire Ahongbonon, a former mechanic from Benin, has helped thousands of West Africans affected by mental illnesses, caring for them in residential centres run by his charity, the Saint Camille association. Above all else, he is determined to stop the practice of keeping mentally ill people in chains.
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"My liver is bleeding": life inside an Afghan psychiatric hospital
"My liver is bleeding", a local saying meaning "I am unhappy", is a familiar refrain among patients at the Alemi neuro-psychiatric hospital, Afghanistan’s first private clinic, in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. After nearly 40 years of on-off war, mental illness is widespread, but facilities to help patients are few.
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Open source app takes on Ebola and mental health in Liberia
In Liberia, a new open source app is used to the mental health issues that have arisen in the aftermath of the epidemic due to displacement and abandonment.
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UK mental health provider, Stanford to develop suicide prevention app
UK-based mental health provider Mersey Care NHS Trust has partnered with Stanford University to develop an app that prevents suicides.
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New Plan to Treat Schizophrenia Is Worth Added Cost, Study Says
A new approach to treating early schizophrenia, which includes family counseling, results in improvements in quality of life that make it worth the added expense.
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World Report 2016: ‘Politics of Fear’ Threatens Rights
In its World Report 2016, Human Rights Watch concludes that the politics of fear led governments around the globe to roll back human rights during 2015. Fear of terrorist attacks and mass refugee flows are driving many Western governments to roll back human rights protections.