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      PRIME: A Programme to Reduce the Treatment Gap for Mental Disorders in Five Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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          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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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Med
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS Med
                Journal ID (publisher-id): PLoS
                Journal ID (pmc): plosmed
                Title: PLoS Medicine
                Publisher: Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
                ISSN (Print): 1549-1277
                ISSN (Electronic): 1549-1676
                Publication date Collection: December 2012
                Publication date (Print): December 2012
                Publication date (Electronic): 27 December 2012
                Volume: 9
                Issue: 12
                Electronic Location Identifier: e1001359
                Affiliations
                [1 ]University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
                [2 ]Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
                [3 ]London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
                [4 ]Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
                [5 ]Public Health Foundation of India, Hyderabad, India
                [6 ]HealthNet TPO, Kathmandu, Nepal
                [7 ]University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
                [8 ]Human Sciences Research Council, Durban, South Africa
                [9 ]Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
                [10 ]Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
                [11 ]University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
                [12 ]London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
                [13 ]World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
                [14 ]BasicNeeds, Bangalore, India
                [15 ]Sangath, Goa, India
                Author notes

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

                Conceived and designed the experiments: CL MT MS AF RS MJ IP AB FK MP GT CH RK DM SS DC SR SK SH LF VP. Analyzed the data: CL MT MS AF RS MJ IP AB FK MP GT CH RK DM SS DC SR SK SH LF VP. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: CL MT VP. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CL MT MS AF RS MJ IP AB FK MP GT CH RK DM SS DC SR SK SH LF VP. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: CL MT MS AF RS MJ IP AB FK MP GT CH RK DM SS DC SR SK SH LF VP. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: CL MT MS AF RS MJ IP AB FK MP GT CH RK DM SS DC SR SK SH LF VP.

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                Publisher ID: PMEDICINE-D-12-01606
                DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001359
                PMC ID: 3531506
                PubMed ID: 23300387
                SO-VID: 0a026c06-0250-456b-9776-13341b1527f3
                Copyright statement: Copyright @ 2012
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                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                Funding
                This document is an output from the PRIME Research Programme Consortium, funded by the UK Department of International Development (DFID) for the benefit of developing countries. SS and DC are staff members of the World Health Organization. GT is supported by a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Programme grant, awarded to the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. GT is also supported in relation to the NIHR Specialist Mental Health Biomedical Research Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. VP is supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this publication and these views do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy or views of the World Health Organization or any of the funders. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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                Subject: Policy Forum
                Subject: Medicine
                Subject: Global Health
                Subject: Mental Health
                Subject: Primary Care
                Subject: Public Health

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