Mental health innovations in Africa: lessons from Ethiopia and Zimbabwe

摘要

During the last 5 years, mental health intervention research in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) has been flourishing. This research has been spurred by substantial investments by funders such as the UK Department for International Development, Grand Challenges Canada, the National Institute of Mental Health, the European Commission and the Wellcome Trust. Many of these studies have been aligned with the research priorities identified by the Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health initiative (Collins ). Key areas of investigation have included the delivery of evidence-based culturally appropriate and affordable mental health interventions in routine low-resource primary care and community settings, and the development of scale-able models of care. Efforts have been directed at making the clinical and economic arguments that will enable substantial investment from governments and development agencies, to narrow the treatment gap and improve the lives of people living with mental disorders in LMIC (Chisholm ).