By Mbarara Rise |
Dear donors
We are considering to integrate HIV and mental health interventions and your kind support will impact us reach our goal.
A mental health intervention can help someone through tragedy, trauma, or through any underlying untreated psychiatric disorder. Ideally, a therapist or intervention specialist of some kind is involved in helping convince someone to get mental health or medical treatment.
Mental health conditions increase the risk of HIV infection, and people living with HIV have an increased risk of mental health conditions, which are associated with lower retention in HIV care, increased risk behaviours and lower engagement with HIV prevention.
Furthermore, despite an increasing body of evidence showing that effective methods of prevention, screening and diagnosis of, and treatments for, common mental health conditions, including depression and anxiety, exist and can be implemented in low- and middle-income countries, services for mental health, neurological and substance use conditions are often not integrated into packages of essential services and care, including for HIV.
Thank you for your kind support
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