Stakeholders in the mental health sector have renewed calls for increased awareness, strengthened support systems and the elimination of stigma faced by persons living with psychosocial disabilities.

Globally, an estimated 792 million people or 1 in 10 people, including 1 in 5 children, have a mental health condition. Gender is a major factor (World Health Organization1; 2019a; 2019b; 2019c).

An advocacy project for social change and inclusive policies for persons with psychosocial disability (PPD) has been launched in Lagos. The project — RIRE which means re-address inclusion rights and ...

Ms. Hawa Diallo, Chief of the Civil Society Unit at the Civil Society and Advocacy Section, UN Department of Global Communications has extensive United Nations experience in public information ...

I was born with a rare disorder you have almost certainly never heard of, Moebius syndrome. This means I have facial paralysis and limited lateral eye movement. Moebius syndrome is highly visible but ...

The pathway to reforming the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is littered with obstacles. Among the biggest challenges is the federal and state governments agreeing on responsibility and ...

Nearly 27 percent of US adults have a disability, with evidence that rates of disability have been increasing over time, especially in recent years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For some people, ...

The Committee expressed concern about disability-based stigma, degrading treatment and harmful beliefs affecting people with disabilities, including ...

Threadbare mental health services are pushing thousands of Australians with mental illness onto the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) indefinitely, according to a prominent psychiatrist who ...

Medical and Social Approaches to Rare Diseases To understand the value of a psychosocial approach to rare disease, consider our underlying assumptions about health and disability. The medical model is ...