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How students and grandparents could solve the global mental-health crisis

African researchers piloted a slew of innovative, low-cost programmes for addressing the troubling shortage of mental-health professionals on the continent. Now the rest of the world is taking notice.
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    1. Simar Bajaj is a science journalist in Oxford, UK.

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Nature 635, 540-542 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03757-9

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