Mental health meets AI
AI therapy chatbots offer on-demand mental health support, but can synthetic empathy truly match human compassion?
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Africa: The Global Mental Health Crisis Surges Amid $200 Billion Funding Gap
United Nations — Although access to mental health and psychosocial support services is considered a fundamental human right by the United Nations (UN), hundreds of millions of people experience limited or inadequate access to mental health and psychosocial support services. On June 6, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO)…
Africa: Plans to Scale Up Mental Health Leadership Courses in Africa
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is spearheading a continental Mental Health Leadership Programme aimed at equipping mental health advocates and leaders with the skills and competencies needed to address mental health challenges through a public health lens. Launched last year at two training sites–the American University in Cairo, which trained…