/ 5 April 2001

?END DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MENTALLY ILL?

THE head of the UN World Health Organisation Gro Harlem Brundtland has launched a mental health awareness campaign with a call for an end to discrimination against people with psychological illnesses. More than 400 million people around the world are estimated to suffer from some kind mental or neurological disorder at any given time, Brundtland said. She said depression was ranked fourth among the 10 leading causes of disease and 20 million people around the world attempt suicide each year. One million of them succeed in killing themselves. – AFP