#MHForAll webinar series: Mental Health, HIV and TB

#MHForAll webinar series: Mental Health, HIV and TB

User profile image Angela - EENet Yoda Master
Nov 6, 2020 @ 1:40 am

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This webinar will discuss the important links between HIV, TB, and mental health. People with HIV and/or TB have greater risk for mental disorders, and vice versa. Without addressing mental health, there will be no end to HIV or TB.

In this webinar chaired by David Bryden, RESULTS US, we will examine the bi-directional nature of mental health and HIV/TB, discussing the risks and opportunities this poses in HIV and TB prevention, testing and treatment, and some of the best initiatives that are addressing it.

This week’s panel of guests includes:

  • Neerja Chowdhary, WHO
  • Vongai Munatsi, Frontline AIDS
  • Ethel Nakimuli-Mpungu, Researcher MQ
  • Aneeta Pasha, IRD Pakistan
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User profile image Angela - EENet Yoda Master

Here is the summary and webinar recording from the host:

Key messages from this week's speakers:
  • Neerja Chowhary: If we are to achieve the SDGs we cannot do this without addressing mental health. The WHO NTD strategy explicitly calls for HIV and TB mental health support to be integrated into the person-centred approach.
  • Ethel Nakimuli-Mpungu: In our trial individuals stayed depression free for up to 24 months after treatment. In the long term treating depression improved adherence and also their viral load.
  • Aneeta Pasha: Over the course of 2 years we found that of all the symptomatic patients who completed mental health intervention, 93% completed their TB treatment, compared to 75% for the symptomatic patients who did not complete a mental health intervention.
  • Vongai Munatsi: Mental health services are being delivered by lay health care workers as in Zimbabwe we do not have a lot of mental health practitioners. There is 1 psychiatrist to a million people, so it is difficult to get services. This is particularly true within HIV itself.
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Still want to find out more? Earlier this week Devex published this article by Shannon Hader Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Ren Minghui, the Assistant Director-General at the World Health Organization. The article makes a strong case for mental health to be included in HIV and TB approaches, and the Global Fund’s role in leading this.
Nov 13, 2020 @ 4:44 am
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