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Guiding principle
The PMHP recognises that at least a third of women living in South Africa experience mental health problems during and after pregnancy. Addressing maternal mental health has long-term positive impact for mother, child, family and community.
Vision
All women have universal access to quality maternal mental health care routinely integrated into into maternity services.
Mission
To achieve this, the PMHP works with vulnerable women, civil society, international organisations, academic and government institutions by implementing 4 interrelated programmes.
These programmes develop an innovative model for integrated mental health services and include:
- providing mental health services
- teaching and training health
- research
- advocacy and policy development
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Life changes around pregnancy make women more vulnerable to mental illness. The negative cycle of poverty and mental illness impact on a woman’s ability to function and thrive.
This can directly affect her foetus or child, with long-lasting physical, cognitive and emotional outcomes.
Caring for mothers is a positive intervention for long-term social development.
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I met with a counsellor as part of the Perinatal Mental Health Project. Finally, I was able to get help. Meeting with this counsellor gave me the chance to finally speak out. Now I am doing just fine and coping very well with motherhood.
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