Morning Briefing

"A bill before Ghana's parliament aims to improve mental health care and encourage more health professionals to enter the sector by tackling one of the greatest impediments to both -- stigma," IRIN/Guardian reports. "The draft reforms -- developed with support from the World Health Organization -- were completed in 2006, but the bill is only now under consideration by parliament," which "is expected to take it up again when it reconvenes in October," according to the news service.