In Rwanda, one in five people live with a mental health condition Posted on July 7, 2022 Content warning: brief mention of violence, including rape During the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Mutima* watched helplessly while Interahamwe militia brutally murdered her husband. She also witnessed the massacre of her family and Read more…
In Peru, care continues for patients with chronic mental health conditions Posted on June 1, 2022 Jessica used to run away from home. Then her mother, desperate to keep Jessica safe, found a way to keep her there: a chain around her waist. It wasn’t a punishment. It was a Read more…
PIH’s co-lead psychiatrist on the challenges, progress, and work yet to be done in mental health care globally Posted on May 25, 2022 Dr. Giuseppe (Bepi) Raviola, co-director of mental health at Partners In Health, writes this reflection as the world settles into a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Read more…
Three-day training empowers nurses, prevents patient harm Posted on Oct 14, 2021 Mental disturbances from delirium are usually temporary, but they can be life-threatening—which is why it’s critical to recognize and diagnose the condition. At PIH-supported J.J. Dossen Memorial Hospital, 16 nurses recently received delirium and agitation training and are Read more…
Patient living with schizophrenia receives care, restored to family through innovative partnership Posted on Oct 12, 2021 In 2019, Ma-Kebbeh (pseudonym) began to show signs of schizophrenia. She talked to herself, refused to eat, and experienced hallucinations. According to her, strange things were happening. “There was blood on the curtains Read more…
PIH integrates psychological first aid into pandemic response Posted on Oct 8, 2021 Tuberculosis, one of the world’s most deadly diseases, kills nearly 4,000 people per day and has a daunting list of physical symptoms—coughing, chills, weight loss, night sweats. But lesser known are its effects on mental health. Studies have shown that tuberculosis Read more…
Team helps patients manage depression through ongoing care, support Posted on Sep 7, 2021 Content warning: This story contains brief, general mention of suicidal ideation. The taxis are gone, again. But it isn’t the first time that Gábriel* has shown up to an empty lot. As one of the dozens Read more…
PIH supporting country’s first mental health unit for children and adolescents Posted on Aug 27, 2021 On a cloudy July morning on the lush green outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Dr. Elizabeth Allieu stands in front of a classroom of preteen and teen girls, encouragingly telling them that there are no wrong answers to the question Read more…
Panel explores mental health impact of racism amid COVID-19 Posted on June 1, 2021 Racial violence, police brutality, and other forms of racism don’t just affect the physical safety of Black, Asian, Latinx, and Indigenous people—racism also affects mental health. Yet, for many people of colour, mental health care remains costly, hard to access, Read more…
The podcast tells the story of Sierra Leone’s only psychiatric teaching hospital and inspires a conversation about mental health—in the past, present and future. How is mental health connected to history? And what can one hospital teach us about it? In Unchain, a new podcast miniseries from Partners In Health, doctors, patients and historians in Read more…