Mental Health

Our independent, women-run media organization shares in-depth journalism about solutions to environmental and social challenges—including mental health, which is under threat like never before in Costa Rica and Central America. Contact us to suggest a mental health solution we should cover in Central America in 2024, or to learn more about how to partner with us as a donor or sponsor so that we can share more solutions across the region.

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Mental Health

Why not this? Peer-to-peer mental health support

Katherine Stanley Obando - July 2, 2024

When we published our first edition on mental health in 2022, one of the biggest limitations we came up against was: there just aren’t...

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HIV and mental health in Costa Rica: read (or listen) to the full series

Katherine Stanley Obando - October 13, 2023

This longform series about HIV and mental health in Costa Rica, published in four parts, was supported by the Internews Health Journalism Network. Learn...

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El Colectivo 506 series on HIV wins global reporting prize

El Colectivo 506 - October 13, 2023

On October 12th, the Internews Health Journalism Network announced that El Colectivo 506 co-founder Katherine Stanley Obando’s four-part series on HIV in Costa Rica,...

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‘I felt that I had no right to be alive’

El Colectivo 506 - September 21, 2023

Sofia* is 27 years old. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was transmitted to her when she was born, in Nicaragua. However, she says that her...

HIV@40

‘Without HIV, I would have been just another addict’

El Colectivo 506 - September 20, 2023

Miguel is 46 years old, and he is very aware of that fact. He’s asked, what gives you confidence that you will be able...

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‘They say I came here for death with dignity’

El Colectivo 506 - September 19, 2023

Alonso* is 35 years old and the father of two teenage children. He is from San Sebastián, in southern San José. He is sitting...