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Africa African Regional Council Holds Board Meeting in Zambia The African Regional Council held a strategic planning workshop and Board meeting in Lusaka, Zambia on 11-14 September 2000, the first formal meeting since that held in October 1994 in Pretoria, South Africa. The Lusaka meeting was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) under…
Overview: Mental Health and Human Rights 10 October 1998 WFMH’s theme for World Mental Health Day, cosponsored by the World Health Organization, was tied to the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Concern for the human rights of the mentally ill is an integral part of the history of WFMH,…
The Wayback Machine – https://web.archive.org/web/20060821054041/http://www.wfmh.org:80/links.html Important Links to Mental Health Resources World Health Organization Website World Health Report Project Atlas, a website database of country mental health resources Prevention and Promotion in Mental Health Institute of Medicine at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Report Mental Health Library Resources National electronic…
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Consequences of Mental Illness Stigma The consequences of these kinds of inaccurate images, and the beliefs they encourage, include many circumstances that make recovery from mental illness much more difficult, such as the following: Citizens who fear those with mental illness and/or believe them to be lacking in character avoid contact with them, treat them…