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Two decades of psychiatry in Zimbabwe: 1964–1984

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Terry Buchan
Terry Buchan*
Affiliation:
Swan District Hospital, Viveash, Western Australia
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The first Pan African Conference in 1961 made a number of recommendations to guide the development of psychiatric services in emergent African countries. The purpose of this paper is to show that the application of these recommendations, admittedly serendipitously at times, led to a considerable measure of success in Zimbabwe.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 12 , December 1989 , pp. 682 - 684
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989

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