IIMHL is delighted to confirm its formal collaboration with UnitedGMH in a shared mission to enable better mental health across the world.
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This Global Mental Health Advocacy Roadmap 2022-2023 sets out an ambitious but achievable pathway towards realising our vision of a world where everyone, everywhere has someone to turn to in support of their mental health and wellbeing.
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Almost four years ago, in 2018, a group of researchers — including experts from disciplines such as economics, epidemiology, neuroscience, primary care, psychiatry, psychology, and public health from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, Japan, India, US, UK, the Netherlands, and Zimbabwe — were prompted by the scientific journal The Lancet in partnership with the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) to think about why depression remains a neglected global health crisis, despite abundant evidence that much can be done to prevent and aid recovery of people suffering from it even in resource-limited settings and to propose avenues for action.
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Mental health was one of, if not the most, talked about health topic during Agenda Item 7 of the WHO Executive Board meeting.
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The WHO Executive Board meeting will be held on January 24 to 29, 2022. The Executive Board is the key decision making body that meets ahead of the World Health Assembly (WHA); discussions there agree the agenda and resolutions to be considered for the WHA in May each year.
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Universal health coverage (UHC) is a simple concept: everyone everywhere should be able to access the highest attainable standards of health without suffering financial hardship. Global leaders in a high level UN meeting in 2019 committed to achieving UHC by 2030, and stated that it was the right of every human being, without distinction, to enjoy the highest standard of mental health as a part of UHC.
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The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved its organisational strategy to guide the Fund from 2023 to 2028. The new strategy meaningfully includes mental health for the first time.
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One in every 100 deaths worldwide is the result of suicide. And some 700,000 people around the world die by suicide every year; for every one person who dies, it is estimated that 20 more have attempted to take their own lives.
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As 10th October marked World Mental Health Day, this year we were delighted to see a huge cross section of society speaking out to highlight some of the most pressing issues around inequalities in mental health.
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