Context: Neuro-psychiatric disorders are the world's highest cause of incapacity. Mental disease in Africa is taboo and stigmatized, making it a challenge of a silent even hidden epidemy. In Sub-Saharan Africa it is estimated that 20% of patients with mental disorders are treated in primary health care centres and 50-75% are not detected in health facilities. In Mozambique, the prevalence of mental disorders and the frequency with which mental patients are treated at health facilities are not known.
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