Provider-initiated HIV counselling and testing (PICT) in the mentally ill

Better attitudes and mental health for our future

“…But it is not 'ordinary' for at least two reasons: it contains the abstracts of the Biological Psychiatry Conference; and the papers published within collectively call for better attitudes towards, and understanding of mental health difficulties. Moosa and Jeenah [2] consider the ethics of provider-initiated HIV counselling and testing among people with mental illness, working against the double stigmatisation attached to both mental illness and HIV status. Also working against stigmatisation, Vijayalakshmi et al [3] and Pretorius and Broodryk [4] consider misconceptions about mental illness and traumatic brain injuries, respectively, held in educational settings.…”