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U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre

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Blog post | 2025

Unseen scars: The devastating impact of corruption on mental health systems in low and middle-income countries

Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado (2025)
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https://www.u4.no/blog/unseen-scars-the-devastating-impact-of-corruption-on-mental-health-systems-in-low-and-middle-income-countries

From undue influence to procurement corruption and bribes, falsified medical products, and cronyism, corruption has served to weaken mental health systems, divert resources, and enable the violation of patients’ human rights.

Read more:
https://www.u4.no/blog/unseen-scars-the-devastating-impact-of-corruption-on-mental-health-systems-in-low-and-middle-income-countries

Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado

Senior Programme Adviser (U4)
  • daniela.cepeda@cmi.no

U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre

Feb 2002 - Dec 2026
  • Corruption
  • Global Health
  • Health sector
  • Mental health
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Procurement

Also from this project:

U4 Brief | 2025

Reforming money politics to reduce environmental harm

David Aled Williams

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2025

Uro i verdens tredje største demokrati

David Aled Williams; Robert Forster

See also:

Journal Article | 2025

Hijacking legality: Corruption and property creation in Brazil's frontiers

Joachim S. Stassart, Flavia Mendes de Almeida Collaço, Dario Cardoso Jr., Renato Morgado

Political Geography

Edited Book | 2025

Special Issue in Political Geography on the Political Ecology of Resource Corruption

David Aled Williams, Achiba Andrew Gargule (Eds.)

Journal Article | 2025

Abortion Within Reason or Right: Navigating Reproductive Governance and Abortion Stigma in Madagascar's Urban Central Highlands

Karine Aasgaard Jansen

Studies in Comparative International Development

Blog post | 2025

Unrest in the world’s third largest democracy

David Aled Williams; Robert Forster

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