Chronic non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, as well as infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis, have high levels of co-morbidity with mental illness. This co-morbidity doesn’t only influence disability but also has direct consequences for mortality. Conditions of poverty increase the risk of mental illness. This happens through the stress of food and income insecurity, increased trauma, illness and injuries and the lack of resources to cushion the blow of these events. The stress over the fact when their next pay will be. #bio, #social, and #pyscho GEOG203

Level of pain would be a 9/10 for Africans and their families.

PJ-This is a good contribution, could you make it more specific than the entire continent?