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SA university executives called to integrate mental health into institutional strategy [SOUND]

# Between January 2021 and June 2023, Higher Health delivered mental health prevention interventions to over 321-thousand students and provided psycho-social support and counselling to more than 23-thousand students in South Africa. This is according to research by Higher Health South Africa. Rosebank International University College president, Linda Meyer, says a national study conducted across 17 South African universities found that 37.1-percent of students met the criteria for anxiety disorders, and 24.4-percent reported contemplating suicide:

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