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International Workshop on Mental Health Education and Service Development Southeast Asia Calcutta, India, 7-8 February 2000 WFMH helped to convene an International Workshop on Mental Health Education and Service Development in Calcutta, a meeting which continued the Federations support for attention to mental health needs in West Bengal. The workshop followed an earlier Calcutta meeting…

Eastern Mediterranean Prevention of Substance Abuse In June WFMHs Eastern Mediterranean Regional Council (EMRC) joined with the Arab Federation for NGOs for the Prevention of Substance Abuse to organize a regional conference on substance abuse. (The Arab Federation was founded in 1996 by an initiative of the WFMH Committee to Combat Substance Abuse and the…

Africa WHO’s World Health Report was launched in Africa at an event in Harare, Zimbabwe, on 23 October attended by Benedetto Saraceno, M.D., Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence at WHO, Mary Petevi, Advisor in the Department of Humanitarian Action, and Dr. Custodia Mandlhate, Regional Adviser for Mental Health. This was…

Slovenia “Mental Health Promotion — A Quality Framework,” a publication of the Health Education Authority in England, was translated and distributed for local use. A press conference was held on the 8th of October and later a round table discussion of “Mental Health in Slovenia Today” was held.

WFMH is an international membership organization founded in 1948 to advance, among all peoples and nations, the prevention of mental and emotional disorders, the proper treatment and care of those with such disorders, and the promotion of mental health. Our mission The mission of the World Federation for Mental Health is to promote the advancement…

    Who We Are WFMH is an international membership organization founded in 1948 to advance, among all peoples and nations, the prevention of mental and emotional disorders, the proper treatment and care of those with such disorders, and the promotion of mental health. The Federation, through its members and contacts in more than 100…