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Tests of IPT in African Communities Show Treatment for Depression Works
July 24, 2012

A community mental health nurse discussed stress management with women in a village near the town of Bireuen, on Aceh's east coast.What is the most burdensome disease in the world today? According to the World Health Organization,  the disease that robs the most adults of the most years of productive life is not AIDS, not heart disease, not cancer. It is depression.

Read more at http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/fighting-depression-one-village-at-a-time/

 

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