Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)
The Friendship Bench: Bridging Zimbabwe’s mental health treatment gap
Zimbabwe
01 May 2025
Globally, millions of people are suffering with mental health conditions and have no access to evidence-based interventions. The Friendship Bench (FB) is a successful programme that was developed in Zimbabwe in 2006 to bridge this gap. FB uses a task-shifting approach to support those dealing with “kufungisisa”, a term locally understood as an equivalent of anxiety and depression. Community he...
01 May 2025