{"id":195191,"date":"2025-04-02T10:43:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T08:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-health-ministry-raises-awareness-about-stigma-against-mental-illness\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T08:43:41","slug":"namibia-health-ministry-raises-awareness-about-stigma-against-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-health-ministry-raises-awareness-about-stigma-against-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Health Ministry Raises Awareness About Stigma Against Mental Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>Dr Adelinu Celestinus, a medical doctor at Windhoek Central Hospital&#8217;s mental healthcare unit, cautioned against the stigmatisation of mental illness during a mental health and suicide prevention awareness campaign at Outjo on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Speaking at the event, held under the theme &#8216;Changing the Narrative on Suicide&#8217;, Celestinus explained mental illness to the Outjo community and how the community can participate in seeking help for people affected by mental illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;Mental illnesses are stigmatised&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504020045.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Adelinu Celestinus, a medical doctor at Windhoek Central Hospital&#8217;s mental healthcare unit, cautioned against the stigmatisation of mental illness during a mental health and suicide prevention awareness campaign at Outjo on Monday. Speaking at the event, held under the theme &#8216;Changing the Narrative on Suicide&#8217;, Celestinus explained mental illness to the Outjo community and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8837,5731,8855,8854,6857,4706,724,257,5234,254,12009],"class_list":["post-195191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awareness","tag-health","tag-illness","tag-mental","tag-ministry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-raises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stigma"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195191","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=195191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}