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Mental health makes history at the 74th World Health Assembly
For the first time in history, Mental Health had its own agenda item at this year’s World Health Assembly - the annual meeting of health ministers and policy makers from around the world. Discussions and statements for this agenda item - Mental health preparedness for and response to the COVID-19 pandemic - began yesterday, on Wednesday 26th May.
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News
WHO leaders urge for mental health to be a priority
This year it was an historic World Health Assembly for mental health - over half of all member states made statements on what they are doing to address mental health and all member states approved the Mental Health Action Plan 2021-2030.
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News
Mental Health at the 74th World Health Assembly
Over the past week, Health Ministers from around the world virtually ‘gathered’ for the annual World Health Assembly (WHA) to discuss the world's most pressing health issues. COVID-19 was obviously the key topic for discussion and - given the impact of the pandemic on mental health - ministers discussed mental health more extensively than at any previous WHA.
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HIV & TB, Systems
Driving faster progress in the fight against HIV: How integrating mental health is a win-win
Over the past two years, we have been pushing for mental health to be integrated into HIV and TB programmes. We know that the relationship between the epidemics is bi-directional, and that there can be no end to HIV and TB without first addressing mental health.
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Education, News, Suicide Decriminalisation
Comprehensive mental health action plan
This week the World Health Assembly is due to approve the updated WHO Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan (2021-2030). This article summarises what are the new aspects of this plan compared to the old one (2013-2020). For
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Education, Financing, News, Systems, UHC
Our statement to the 74th World Health Assembly
The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic of the past year has put mental health into sharp focus across the world. The extraordinary increase in mental health needs - with the added challenges of COVID-19 - is taking its toll on already overburdened mental health services.
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Education, News
United for Global Mental Health joins the first-ever #MentalHealthAction Day
With the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the growing mental health crisis, amid the continued struggle of systemic racism, we are proud to be joining a coalition of more than 1000 organizations, brands, government agencies and cultural leaders for the world’s first-ever Mental Health Action Day.
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Financing, News, Publications
Mental health is health…and we cannot afford not to fund it
Funding for global mental health remains critically short - less than 1% of development assistance for health and less than 1% of philanthropic health funding is spent on this pressing issue.
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