1. Friendship Bench Project, evidence based, innovative and cost effective methods of providing mental health support to communities and health care professionals. Great use of Community Health Care Workers, something we urgently need to adopt in the global north.
2. In the spirit of Ubuntu, elderly care can be managed at home or the village, with family and community support, applying cultural methods of care. This is often cost effective and culturally appropriate. Our elderly are less lonely, their wisdom is valued, they rarely die alone. Recognising too that this model is not for all, families may make the choice to put their families in homes.
3. HIV in adolescents, many adolescents that I meet in Zimbabwe are HIV aware and are brilliant community advocates, many of my adolescents in London context are not greatly aware of risks and management of HIV, we have much to learn here.
4. Innovation, how to work with what we have and not what we don’t have. Resources are limited everywhere, many of us from the global majority are more likely to be highly resilient and seek solutions even in the most difficult circumstances. On climate change nothing goes to waste in Africa, absolutely nothing.
5. Work life balance in low income countries is way better than our in the global north. Workforce well being is incredibly important, as we increasingly observe burnout and poor mental health in the NHS we must look at innovative models from the global south on how we can improve mental wellbeing in our workforce.
Dorcas Gwata
Global Health Consultant
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