Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Dixon Chibanda's organization Friendship Bench trains grandmothers to help the 16.5 million Zimbabweans that suffer from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Dixon Chibanda remembers like yesterday the moment in 2005 that changed his life. "During my formative years working as a ...

Zimbabwe is pioneering a groundbreaking mental health programme with stunning results – and the rest of the world is taking note. BBC Future has brought you in-depth and rigorous stories to help you ...

An estimated 322 million people live with depression, the majority in non-Western nations The Friendship Bench project offers basic psychological therapy from grandmothers Dixon Chibanda spent more ...

In Zimbabwe, like many countries, there are few options for mental health care. So psychiatrist Dixon Chibanda came up with an unexpected solution: therapy from trained grandmothers, on park benches.

People living with HIV alongside common mental health disorders may be three times more likely to maintain a low level of virus through medication if supported with therapy through the Friendship ...

Dixon Chibanda, a Zimbabwean psychiatrist, tells the story of a young woman named Netsai whose husband kicked her out of their home when she gave birth to an albino girl. Suddenly homeless and without ...

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In Zimbabwe, like many countries, there are few options for mental health care. So psychiatrist Dixon Chibanda came up with an unexpected... Dixon Chibanda: How Can A Team Of Grandmothers Make Therapy ...