Mental Service Users Association - Ethiopia

Mental Service Users Association - Ethiopia

The Mental Health Service Users Association Ethiopia (MHSUA) is an association of mental health care users in Ethiopia. The key issues that the MHSUA seeks to address are to increase community awareness about mental health, reduce stigma and support people with lived experience to live in dignity, empower service users and their families to be their own advocate in the development and improvement of mental health care and advocate for rights-based approach to mental health care.

Mission statement

MHSUA strives to ensure that persons with lived experience in Ethiopia are engaged meaningfully in the health care system focusing on human rights, empowerment, recovery and peer support.

Summary of relevant work

MHSUA core areas are:

  • Collective voice for service users’ interests and needs
  • Peer support and empowering service users
  • Provide inputs to improve mental health care in terms of quality, accessibility, appropriateness
  • Advocate for better awareness of mental health: service users, care givers, health professionals, policy makers, government, development partners
  • Promote the rights of service users and participate in mental health legislation
  • Promote policy relevant researches

Key partners

Funders

  • Individual contributors
  • Ember

Seeking collaboration with

Experts by experience/service users
Other organizations
Policy makers
Researchers

Details

Approach(es)
Advocacy
Empowerment and service user involvement
Human rights
Policy and legislation
Prevention and promotion
Training, education and capacity building
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Disorder(s)
All mental health conditions
Region(s)
Africa
Population(s)
Adults
Children and adolescents
Disability
Families and carers
Humanitarian and conflict health
Maternal and neonatal health
Minority populations
Setting(s)
Community
Primary care
School
Specialist care
Workplace
Country(s)
Ethiopia