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How Toronto is helping Ethiopia build its mental health care

November 11/2013

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Ethiopia has 51 psychiatrists. This is a small number, especially when you consider the 92 million people they're supposed to serve.

But in 2003, there were only nine psychiatrists in the country – meaning their ranks have grown by 467 per cent in just one decade. This increase is particularly impressive for a country experiencing one of the worst brain drains in the world and on Friday, the number 51 was a cause for celebration amongst the Ethiopians and Canadians who helped make it happen.

On Friday morning, dozens of people gathered at the University of Toronto's Hart House to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of TAAPP, or the Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Project, a partnership between Addis Ababa University and the University of Toronto.

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