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. 2012;9(12):e1001359.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001359. Epub 2012 Dec 27.

PRIME: a programme to reduce the treatment gap for mental disorders in five low- and middle-income countries

Crick Lund  1 , Mark Tomlinson, Mary De Silva, Abebaw Fekadu, Rahul Shidhaye, Mark Jordans, Inge Petersen, Arvin Bhana, Fred Kigozi, Martin Prince, Graham Thornicroft, Charlotte Hanlon, Ritsuko Kakuma, David McDaid, Shekhar Saxena, Dan Chisholm, Shoba Raja, Sarah Kippen-Wood, Simone Honikman, Lara Fairall, Vikram Patel
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PRIME: a programme to reduce the treatment gap for mental disorders in five low- and middle-income countries

Crick Lund et al. PLoS Med. 2012.

Abstract

Crick Lund and colleagues describe their plans for the PRogramme for Improving Mental health carE (PRIME), which aims to generate evidence on implementing and scaling up integrated packages of care for priority mental disorders in primary and maternal health care contexts in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda.

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Conflict of interest statement

MT, MP, and VP are members of the PLOS Medicine Editorial Board. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1. The building blocks of a mental health plan.
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