PRIME in the Media
22 April 2013: African-led mental health research programme meets in Ethiopia to develop mental health care plans
15 April 2013: Ethiopia hosts 3rd Annual Meeting of international mental health research programme (15-20 April 2013)
06 December 2012: Ethiopian Ministry of Health launches National Mental Health Strategy (2012-2016)
10 October 2012: Mental health and lost income: It costs South Africa more to not treat mental illness than to treat it
01 October 2012: PRIME calls for a human rights-based approach to mental health care in low-and middle-income countries
18 September 2012: PRIME calls for the inclusion of mental health in South Africa’s primary health care (PHC) re-engineering and National Health Insurance (NHI)
09 July 2012: PRIME launches in Ethiopia in partnership with Addis Ababa University and Federal Ministry of Health
25 May 2012: Promoting public mental health in Africa
10 May 2012: PRIME launches with local and international partners in Uganda
01 Mar 2012: PRIME-SA team launches research in strong partnership with national, provincial and local stakeholders
01 Dec 2011: World AIDS Day: Experts highlight the importance of mental health care
25 Oct 2011: South Africa places mental health care on the global and national agenda
10 Oct 2011: The need for mental health care highlighted on World Mental Health Day
12 Jul 2011: PRIME time for new project
20 June 2011: PRIME India & Nepal launch in Bhopal
11 Feb 2011: New project to PRIME mental health services
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Latest Publications
PLoS Medicine (27 Dec 2012)
PLoS Medicine (29 May 2012)
Putting Evidence into Practice: The PLoS Medicine Series on Global Mental Health Practice
The Lancet (17 Oct 2011)
2nd Lancet Series on Global Mental Health
Click here to view a video of the launch or to listen to the audio version.
Knowledge Resources
Mental Health Atlas 2011 (listen to WHO podcast, featuring PRIME partners Dr Shekhar Saxena and Dr Sheila Ndyanabangi from Uganda)
1st Lancet Series on Global Mental Health
WHO Mental Health & Development Report
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About PRIME
PRIME is a consortium of research institutions and Ministries of Health in five countries in Asia and Africa (Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa & Uganda), with partners in the UK and the World Health Organization (WHO). PRIME is supported by the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID), and is a six year programme which was launched in May 2011.
The goal of PRIME is to generate world-class research evidence on the implementation and scaling up of treatment programmes for priority mental disorders in primary and maternal health care contexts in low resource settings.
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Upcoming Conferences
In order to encourage the uptake of its research, PRIME keeps a track of mental health related conferences that are coming up.
Below are some global mental health related conferences which are relevant to the work of PRIME:
18-22 May 2013: American Psychiatric Association 166th Annual Meeting, San Francisco USA (Poster submissions 3 Dec 2012)
03-07 June 2013: Kettil Bruun Society (KBS) for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcoholism, Kampala Uganda (Abstracts 20 Jan 2013)
18-21 June 2013: Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology (followed by Society for Epidemiologic Research), Boston USA
22-26 June 2013: Research Society on Alcoholism, Orlando USA
25-28 Aug 2013: World Federation of Mental Health, Buenos Aires Argentina (Abstract April/May 2013)
24-28 Sept 2013: International Society for Suicide Prevention, Oslo Norway (Abstract 30 Sep 2012)
11-15 Aug 2014: International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP), Durban South Africa (Abstracts 31 Jan 2014)
