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You are encouraged to contact your Regional Vice President, who may be able to provide information on other mental health organizations in your area. It may be possible to collaborate with those organizations on activities or to provide or receive assistance. AFRICAShona Sturgeon, MSWUniversity of Cape Town, School of SWPrivate Bag, Rondebosch 7701Cape Town, SOUTH…

WFMH Newsletter ~Second Quarter 2001~ Message from the President: Ahmed El Azayem, Egypt World Mental Health Day

Overview:Mental Health and Human Rights 10 October 1998 WFMH’s theme for World Mental Health Day, cosponsored by the World Health Organization, was tied to the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Concern for the human rights of the mentally ill is an integral part of the history of WFMH, itself…

Photo Gallery Proclamation Signing Ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan

Thankyou to the Sponsors The World Federation for Mental Health acknowledges with appreciation these sponsors of World Mental Health Day, whounderwrote the creation, printing and distribution of the planning kit:AstraZeneca CNSJanssen-CilagPfizer CNSBriston-Myers Squibb also supported the project. 

THE WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY PROJECT A Global Mental Health Education Campaign of the World Federation for Mental Health   2004 ” The Relationship between Physical and Mental Health:  Co-occurring mental and physical disorders”   “Seventeenth-century philosopher Rene Descartes conceptualized the distinction between the mind and the body. He viewed the “mind” as completely separable…