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Financing, News

Investing in mental health: A panel discussion around the World Bank Annuals

As Covid-19 continues to highlight the importance of good mental health for all, the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings provide a timely platform for a high-level discussion around this urgent issue. 

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Financing, HIV & TB

Mental health: The missing piece of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria

For too long mental health has been a missing piece of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

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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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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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Financing

The global COVID-19 response is leaving mental health behind

Since the WHO declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020, there has been a global effort to help countries respond, mobilising billions of dollars in the process.

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