We Did Not Find A Gap, We Created One !

A provocative critique of mainstream mental health investment in Africa. Yoder-Maina argues that the biomedical model didn't fill a gap in community mental health — it created one, by displacing traditional, relational, and culturally embedded care systems that communities had long used to support each other. The standard pitch (invest in mental health because it boosts GDP) compounds the problem by accepting a framework that treats people as units of economic output. Drawing on 15 years of work in Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Ethiopia, she calls for a fundamental reframe: not how do we scale the system we have, but what did we displace, and how do we resource it back.

What are your thought dear COP members ?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-didnt-find-gap-created-one-angi-yoder-maina-ph-d--rnmve/