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Hi, my name is Faith and we are sending the first Africa Suicide Prevention Service. Let's hear what's advocates have to say about society, decriminalization, and what happens after suicide has been decriminalized. Hello friends, My name is Molly Martin Amania, the coordinator of the first regional Africa Suicide Prevention Summit, under the theme From Silence to Action, advancing suicide prevention conversations across Africa. And we are here with the targets that by their awareness, we're creating here, bringing all the people that we have in the room, we can be able to. Decriminalize suicide hello everybody my name is doctor Priscilla Macau I'm attaching Christ working at the Ministry of Health at the division of mental health so can they decriminalized suicide by a court ruling that was done in January of 2025 and people are asking what do we do about this what next so our next steps really are in twofold ways we have to ensure that we. Integrate mental health into the care that we are giving our people and our population so that we prevent the suicidal attempts and eventual death by suicide. My name is Emmanuel Newboy Pashi. I'm with the Department of Psychology at the University of Ghana in Ghana. I'm also the president of the Association for Suicide Prevention Ghana, as you may be aware, in March 2023 gonna repeat it until suicide law and that brought us to Ground Zero where we had. To begin building the structures for suicide prevention in the country. At the moment, we have been able to put together a guideline set of guidelines for safe and appropriate media reporting of suicide for our media space in Ghana. The next thing we are doing, and I hope that you look out for that, is that we are preparing what we call the Ghana National Suicide Prevention Strategy. At the moment, we are at the initial drafting stage and hopefully by the end of November. We should be able to pass it over or stakeholder validation. From there it goes to the Ministry of Health and that's when it is approved. We will, it will be signed into implementation. And I hope that we will be together and we'll share with you the progress we make.