The emergence of suicide prevention as a public health challenge requiring urgent national action has been painfully slow globally. The urgency has been slower in middle- and low-income countries where "ailments of the body" have been prioritised over "afflictions of the mind" given the shoestring health budgets on which these countries operate and the general stigma attached to psychiatric illnesses. This has come at huge costs. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 75 percent of suicides happen in low- and middle-income countries.

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