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Mental Illness

An average of 16% of the single adult

I have done both in two of the main cities as well as in CMB

India should mind its own business rathar than helping the Sinhala state terrorist to kill Tamils who has weapon supplies from Pakistan every 10 days by ship so the Indian must realise the true face of Sl terrorist Governemy

India coudn't look after its own yard security nd its useless for them in order to look in Sl security becuz thy helping terrorist gorventmnet to kill innocent Tamils but they gt a taste aftermath the Mumbai Attacks which killed nealry 190 people

A leading psychiatrist yesterday revealed that ten per cent of Sri Lanka's population were afflicted with some form of mental illness while two percent of these were hard core cases.

The two per cent hardcore cases were in need of support in the form of domestic care and residential treatment at mental hospitals. Director of the Angoda Mental hospital Dr. Jayan Mendis said that human resource is a very important factor in the development of the country.

SL hookers are all butt ugly and had never been my piece of cake.

She is coming under the '2% hardcore ' case !

Mental illness biggest health risk by 2010
Do you get panic attacks every time you are in a chaotic situation? Do you have an obsession to do something repeatedly, like pulling out strands of hair while concentrating on work? Both of these, quite often ignored by most of people, are mild forms of mental illness - which is set to become the number one health risk in India by 2010, a new report says.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), which released a report last month on mental health, morbidity on account of mental illness is all set to take over from cardiovascular diseases as the number one health risk in India in the next two years.

The National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS) further says that over 20 million Indians suffer from serious mental ailments and 50 million more from milder forms.

Thus, a shocking 70 million people suffer from mental ailments and yet, 50-90 percent of them are not able to access corrective services. Awareness of mental health, experts say, is just not enough

Dec 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka National AIDS Prevention Unit says that a cumulative total of 1,129 HIV cases has been recorded in the country by the end of September 2008. However, an estimated 4,000 HIV positive persons are living in the country currently.

Of the identified patients 432 are female and 597 are males. Thirty one of them are children. Among them 281 have come to AIDS stage and 180 of them have already died, said the AIDS Prevention Unit. The highest number of HIV positive cases has been identified from Western Province.

Up to May 2007, a total of 872 patients had been diagnosed as HIV positive, of whom 220 had developed AIDS, and 162 had died. In 2007, fifty thousand persons underwent the blood tests for HIV in Sri Lanka.

According to the UNICEF figures AIDS affects less than 0.1 percent of the general population and despite the decades of conflict and fighting the country still has a low HIV prevalence rate.

However, AIDS activists say the HIV positive cases are underreported and the figures could be higher as more people were displaced from their homes in the North and all the conditions are there for an AIDS epidemic.