Psychology Today | 21.08.2026 02:09
In the early 1970s, Dr. Klaus Minde, a German-Canadian child psychiatrist, arrived in Uganda on a WHO secondment. He was looking for something that he did not expect to find—ADHD. At the time, research and clinical understanding of what would become ADHD was dominated by studies of boys in North America and Europe. In Uganda, he established the first child psychiatry clinic in East Africa and began conducting research, including comparative studies on childhood mental disorders in Canada and Uganda.
