Implementation of a Mental Health Care Package for Children in Areas of Armed Conflict: A Case Study from Burundi, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Sudan
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1 Research and Development Department, HealthNet TPO, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2 Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 4 HealthNet TPO South Sudan, Wau, South Sudan, 5 APRODEM-Girizina, Bujumbura, Burundi, 6 Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, 7 Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 8 VU University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 9 School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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