Nigeria Not On Track to Meet Global Suicide Prevention Goal - - Psychiatrist

20 February 2018

Worldwide each year, over one million people or one person every 40 seconds, end their own lives while a further 10 million attempt suicide annually according to the first global report on suicide prevention published by the World Health Organisation, WHO.

Even as 75 percent of suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries, suicide is a prominent public health problem and Nigeria is ranked 12th among countries with the highest number of suicides in Africa, yet there is currently no national suicide prevention strategy in the country as recommended by the WHO.

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