{"id":182746,"date":"2024-10-18T00:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-msf-reports-over-28-of-mental-health-consultations-in-the-past-3-years-tied-to-substance-use\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T00:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:24:44","slug":"zimbabwe-msf-reports-over-28-of-mental-health-consultations-in-the-past-3-years-tied-to-substance-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-msf-reports-over-28-of-mental-health-consultations-in-the-past-3-years-tied-to-substance-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: MSF Reports Over 28% of Mental Health Consultations in the Past 3 Years Tied to Substance Use"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Under the scorching sun in Epworth, a suburb of Harare, 20-year-old Peter Chimntanda reaches out to young people facing mental health challenges, sharing information about the mental health and psychosocial support provided by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Zimbabwe. As a peer educator with MSF, Peter understands the challenges many of his peers face, having experienced similar struggles himself a few years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes I just cried in the darkness,\u201d Peter recalls his struggles at 14,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Under the scorching sun in Epworth, a suburb of Harare, 20-year-old Peter Chimntanda reaches out to young people facing mental health challenges, sharing information about the mental health and psychosocial support provided by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Zimbabwe. As a peer educator with MSF, Peter understands the challenges many of his peers face, having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8293,5731,8854,1951,257,8327,254,40088,7889,5114,4686,421],"class_list":["post-182746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-consultations","tag-health","tag-mental","tag-msf","tag-news","tag-reports","tag-south-africa-today","tag-substance","tag-tied","tag-years","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}