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Mental health care is far from adequate in South Asia leading to a huge gap in the delivery of mental health services. An effective resource which has sought to minimize this gap has been the non-governmental sector—the NGOs. There has been an upswing in the NGO movement in the last 2 decades, especially in the mental health sector. It is not just their numbers that have increased, but also the range of services offered by them.
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Thara, R. (2015). NGOs and Mental Health: Initiatives and Progress. In: Trivedi, J., Tripathi, A. (eds) Mental Health in South Asia: Ethics, Resources, Programs and Legislation. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 58. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9017-8_14
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