Scaling up public mental health care in Sub-Saharan Africa: insights from infectious disease.
Susan M MeffertCollene LawhornLinnet OngeriElizabeth BukusiHolly R CampbellEric GoosbyStefano M BertozziSimon Njuguna KahongePublished in: Global mental health (Cambridge, England) (2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic is setting off a colossal escalation of global mental health care needs, well-publicized across scientific, media, policymaker, and civil society domains. The pandemic highlights disparities in healthcare access and reinvigorates the push for universal coverage. Learning from HIV strategies, we must seize this historical moment to improve the public mental health care cascade in SSA and capitalize on the powerful alliances ready to be forged. As noted by Ambassador Goosby in our AIDS 2020 workshop, 'The time is now'.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- infectious diseases
- antiretroviral therapy
- affordable care act
- hiv infected
- hiv positive
- human immunodeficiency virus
- sars cov
- coronavirus disease
- mental health
- hiv aids
- hepatitis c virus
- hiv testing
- open label
- health insurance
- randomized controlled trial
- men who have sex with men
- clinical trial
- health information
- study protocol