How counsellor-grandmothers of Zimbabwe are averting a mental health crisis

HARARE – In Zimbabwe, a country of 15 million people, there are fewer than 20 psychiatrists. And mental health issues are rife, given a litany of trauma unaddressed for decades: first the horrors of British colonialism and the liberation struggle and then the Zimbabwean army’s killing of thousands of people in the southwestern region of Matabeleland for allegedly supporting ex-guerrillas who…

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