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Countdown Global Mental Health 2030, News

Countdown Global Mental Health announced

Aligning with the World Health Organization’s prioritisation of universal health coverage, the Countdown will also champion accessible and high-quality mental health treatment as core to achieving health for all. Specifically, the Countdown will go beyond crude measures like the suicide rate, which is the only mental health specific indicator included in the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Countdown Global Mental Health 2030, News

The Lancet Commission on global mental health: 1 year on

It’s been one year since the worldwide launch of the Lancet Commission at the first-ever Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit. Below is a summary of the Commission’s activities and achievements from the past 12 months.

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News

Speak Your Mind and the Blueprint Group: 2020 planning meetings – 5 things we learned

The week before last, campaigners, experts, partners and mental health professionals from around the globe gathered in Kenya for the Speak Your Mind and BluePrint Group meetings.

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News

Exploring support in humanitarian response and emergency situations

On 7th and 8th October, the Netherlands hosted the second annual Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. Following the UK’s hosted summit last year, this year’s theme focused on the provision of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in humanitarian response and emergency situations.

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News

Mental health clearly a priority for the next generation, as leading issue of discussion at the 2018 Nexus Global Summit

On 27 July 2018 United for Global Mental Health (formerly “The Global Campaign for Mental Health”) worked with advocates from around the world to present a powerful prevention and panel discussion at the 2018 Nexus Global Summit, making the case that mental health is our generation’s greatest health challenge.

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The march of young mental health champions

We often talk about how the growing movement for mental health is being led by inspirational young people from around the world. This week, our own young champions have met the Sussexes, been chosen as a WEF Young Global Leader, and been featured on the BBC.

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News

Statement: the Getch Foundation

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News, Systems

Statement: mental health needs of those affected by conflict and emergencies

We warmly welcome the focus of the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement on mental health at this year’s conference. Our research over the past year has shown that historically there has been a lack of political will and investment to prioritise mental health and psychosocial support in emergencies and non-emergencies settings.

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HIV & TB

Global Fund: what’s the fight without considering mental health?

This year the BluePrint Group for Global Mental Health, coordinated by UnitedGMH agreed that, one immediate opportunity, to increase funding for mental health for the most vulnerable, is the replenishment of the Global Fund for the fight against HIV, TB and Malaria.

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HIV & TB

The fight to integrate mental health in the Global Fund Replenishment

As part of our objective to ensure mental health services are integrated throughout health systems United for Global Mental Health attended the Global Fund to fight HIV, TB and Malaria (The Global Fund) Replenishment Conference in Lyon.

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