This BanStopPrevent mental health advocacy study explores local perceptions of mental health and attitudes towards harmful practices while identifying factors that promote or hinder change.
The insights gained from the first days of fieldwork have laid a solid foundation for the next steps in the BanStopPrevent Advocacy Project's journey toward understanding and addressing harmful practices.
Misconceptions, stigma and discrimination sustain attitudes to mental health illness that cause chaining, torture and destitution of mentally ill people. The BanStopPrevent Campaign is purposed to challenge the attitudes underpinning the chaining, torture and destitution that mentally ill people are susceptible to in Nigeria.