Without addressing mental health, there will be no end to the #HIV and #TB epidemics.
That’s why I’ve signed @UnitedGMH’s Open Letter calling on the @GlobalFund to integrate mental health into its upcoming strategy.
Join me: https://t.co/pKmViQGZqk
Priority action from the new #GlobalAIDSstrategy 'Improve quality of live for people living with HIV by..integrating care for coinfections and comorbidities management and mental health..' @TENDAI_program blends depression treatment with adherence support https://t.co/nelLiRwufO
New paper: 'A Cascade of Interventions to Promote Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in African Countries'. A sustained commitment to improving adherence to ART is vital in SSA will be needed to end the HIV epidemic. @melanieabas@PrimNyamayaro
https://t.co/gLkGv6I1WU
#AIDS2020Virtual poster PED0834. Our fantastic program manager @PrimNyamayaro presenting her research. Aim: To establish acceptability and feasibility of routine screening for Neurocog impairment using NeuroScreen app for people living with HIV in Zimbabwe.
📰🗞️LATEST article from @melanieabas & @DixonChibanda
"Through interviews with traditional healers & key community figures, we established local terminology for depression. There are no direct equivalents for depression or anxiety in the Zimbabwe."
https://t.co/07EDS3GgIY
We are very lucky to have Clinical Psychologist @tdzuda training and supervising interventionists delivering our blended problem solving therapy & adherence intervention, for people living with #HIV and #depression in #Zimbabwe.
TENDAI Principle Investigator @melanieabas will be co-delivering a workshop on mental health and #HIV in low resource settings at #AIDS2020Virtual with the #Zimbabwe Ministry of Health @iasociety - we are looking forward to tuning in!
Congratulations to our project manager @PrimNyamayaro
on her publication 'Neurocognitive impairment in treatment-experienced adults living with HIV attending primary care clinics in Zimbabwe' !
https://t.co/4Iwh1WUvj7
'A letter from Zimbabawe' by our site Principle Investigator Dr @walter_mangezi
"The approach any psychiatrist takes for a patient must be a holistic one..taking care of physical health, psychological & emotional health, and social & spiritual health.."
https://t.co/zTeYoPqLNS
Important message from our clinical psychologist @tdzuda during this uncertain time. #MentalHealthMatters and should be integrated into the way we talk about #HIV and other communicable diseases. #zimLOC#staysafe
Achieving and maintaining Viral Supression is always vital. But particularly important to boost resilience to novel #COVID19 at this time. Tendai Program will continue to work toward this goal