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International Mental Health Day

The state of mental health provision in developing countries, with examples from Ghana and Cameroon. For International Mental Health Day we ask why abuse seems to continue.

More than 450 million people around the world have mental health problems. For International Mental Health Day Claudia Hammond asks why for some of those people the care they receive is getting worse. Our reporters in Ghana and Cameroon uncover neglect and even abuse. We examine why mental health seems to get forgotten by society and by many international funders. We look at whether it鈥檚 possible to change attitudes towards mental illness.

(Image: A mental disorder patient chained to his bed. Credit: ISMOYO/AFP/GettyImages)

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Thu 11 Oct 2012 10:32GMT
蜜芽传媒 World Service Online

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Chapters

  • Mental Health abuse

    How common is abuse of patients in the global mental health system? Akwasi Sarpong reports from Ghana and Prof Vikram Patel makes a global comparison

    Duration: 04:52

  • Cameroon

    Treatment of Mental Health in Cameroon. Francis Ngwa Niba reports

    Duration: 04:06

  • Attitudes

    The stigma of mental illness. Claudia talks to Rebecca Schleifer of Human Rights Watch and Prof Vikram Patel talks about whether things have really changed in the last ten years

    Duration: 07:49

Broadcasts

  • Wed 10 Oct 2012 18:32GMT
    蜜芽传媒 World Service Online
  • Thu 11 Oct 2012 03:32GMT
    蜜芽传媒 World Service Online
  • Thu 11 Oct 2012 10:32GMT
    蜜芽传媒 World Service Online

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