Session 3 : Strategies For The Future
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Vikram Patel moderated the third session of the Summit, which focused on strategies for the future for the Movement. The aim of the session was to identify how the Movement can further develop to achieve the goals of advocating for closing the treatment gap and protecting the human rights of people living with mental disorders. The session brought together a number of presentations which illustrated the diversity of approaches for the future. These were followed by a vigorous debate and discussion with all participants. |
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The importance of grassroots activism was strongly communicated by our keynote speaker, Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola, the secretary-general of the Treatment Action Campaign, a ground-breaking HIV activist group that has contributed to the transformation of the South African government’s response to ensuring access to treatment for PLHIV over the past decade. Ms. Dubula outlined the TAC’s key strategies to ensure the rights of people with HIV to treatment; including increasing education and active citizenship, community mobilisation, using supportive legislation; and a range of protest actions. See here for more |
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Christine Parsons from the University of Oxford (UK) spoke about how advances in neurosciences could be useful in developing effective interventions. She presented evidence about the importance of brain development in early childhood through promoting maternal mental health and responsiveness. She emphasised the potential for developing interventions to support caregiver interaction in low and middle income countries. See here for more |
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Richard Turner from the Lancet highlighted the success of the Lancet Global Mental Health Series. Since its launch in 2007, there have been a large number of citations to the articles in the series. Other impacts were documented in a paper in the Lancet in 2008. Dr. Turner reiterated the Lancet’s support for the Movement See here for more |
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Kathryn Goetzke White, representing IFred (United States), spoke about the stigmatising view that many people have of depression and the need for a new approach to the condition. She reported back on some of her work in rebranding depression in a more hopeful and positive manner, using empowering words, the colour yellow, and sunflowers in her “Field of Hope” initiative. See here for more |
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