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Acknowledgements h is paper was developed with support from the Annie E. Casey
Foundation and a contract with DB Consulting Group (Contract# 280-02-0101), a logistics …

This position paper has been substantially revised by the Canadian Psychiatric Association
(CPA)'s Section on Transcultural Psychiatry and the Standing Committee on Education and …