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More attention has been paid to the mental health of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan than in any previous war. Yet shame remains a significant barrier to military personnel and their families getting the psychiatric treatment they need, a report released Wednesday says...
Nonetheless, service members often find it easier to seek therapy outside the military setting than within it, the APA study also concluded. Nearly half of those surveyed said that they didn't know the warning signs of mental illness, and one-quarter knew nothing at all about effective treatments. Republican Senator Kit Bond of Missouri hopes to improve that. He plans to introduce legislation Thursday that would dramatically expand care options for active-duty troops. Right now they can seek therapy on military bases and national facilities such as Maryland-based Walter Reed Hospital. If passed, Bond's bill will...
...their loved ones would be harmed or killed in battle. But nearly two-thirds also reported that handling domestic issues alone or being a single parent was a major source of stress. About 12% said that they feared their spouse would resent them if they sought out mental health treatment. So reluctance to get help for PTSD affects more than the soldiers themselves, Davis says. "Whole communities will have to deal with the consequences," she says. "It will be a tremendous public health problem for all of society...
...normal kid but for the fact that nine years after his birth with a bladder defect, his family is still struggling to get him what should be a simple and relatively cheap operation. Like many sick Indians, Abhishek is both symptom and cause. His lack of proper treatment is reason enough for national shame but his ill health hurts the country in turn, not only forcing the frail-looking boy to miss school for a week or two every few months while he searches hospital by hospital for some relief, but dragging his uninsured family into debt when they should...
...inquiring businessmen that there was "no point being corrupt." After years of consistent growth--Botswana since independence had one of the world's fastest-growing economies, and growth now hovers between 5% and 6%--primary, secondary and university education is almost free (and indoors). Most health services, including antiretroviral treatment for aids, which has devastated the country, are also state-funded. Whereas diamonds finance war in West and Central Africa, there have been no coups and little unrest in Botswana in 41 years of independence. And the country is one of just two in Africa to have graduated to middle...