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High rate of police suicides points to mental health crisis among SA’s first responders
One member of the SA Police Service dies by suicide every week on average, highlighting the mental health toll on South Africa’s overworked and under-resourced first responders. Fifty-four SAPS members took their own lives in the 2024/25 reporting period, a rising trend which has seen 300 police suicides reported in the past seven years. Police members are not alone. South African paramedics and ambulance personnel, emergency care nurses and doctors, firefighters and rescuers
Mental health care out of reach for most South Africans
Psychiatrists from across Africa will convene at the 2025 SASOP Congress in East London – 17 – 19 September 2025  In South Africa, up...
ADHD in Women – Undiagnosed and Misunderstood
Women's Month - August 2025 ADHD is not just a childhood condition. And it doesn’t only affect boisterous schoolboys. This Women’s Month,...
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