Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Dixon Chibanda's organization Friendship Bench trains grandmothers to help the 16.5 million Zimbabweans that suffer from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Dixon Chibanda remembers like yesterday the moment in 2005 that changed his life. "During my formative years working as a ...

At 63, Robin Baxter was in limbo: homeless, moving between family and friends, with no real place to live. “I just felt embarrassed,” Baxter said. “I didn’t really believe this was something that I ...

Zimbabwe is pioneering a groundbreaking mental health programme with stunning results – and the rest of the world is taking note. BBC Future has brought you in-depth and rigorous stories to help you ...

An estimated 150 million Americans live in areas that lack mental health professionals. In the coming years, the country faces a predicted shortage of up to 30,000 psychiatrists, psychologists, social ...

An estimated 322 million people live with depression, the majority in non-Western nations The Friendship Bench project offers basic psychological therapy from grandmothers Dixon Chibanda spent more ...

After her son, the family’s shining light and only breadwinner, was arrested last year, Tambudzai Tembo went into meltdown. In Zimbabwe, where clinical mental health services are scarce, her chances ...

Dr. Dixon Chibanda remembers like yesterday the moment in 2005 that changed his life. "During my formative years working as a psychiatrist, I lost a patient of mine to suicide. Erica was her name. She ...

In Zimbabwe, the term for depression is kufungisisa, which translates to “thinking too much.” Like many low-income countries, Zimbabwe is ill-equipped to care for its citizens suffering from mental ...