EDITORIAL | It’s time to break down the mental health stigma, not its victims

Statistics show we have not learnt from our fatal failures, which makes mental health literacy imperative

12 October 2020 - 20:08 By sunday times daily

Just one in 10 South Africans with a mental illness has access to care and an estimated one in three “will or do suffer from a mental illness at some point in their lifetime”...

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