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Member states demand greater advocacy and priority for mental health

Mental health was one of, if not the most, talked about health topic during Agenda Item 7 of the WHO Executive Board meeting.

WHO Executive Board to reflect on progress on mental health

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.

HIV & TB

An opportunity this World AIDS Day

This World AIDS Day falls at the end of the most extraordinary year. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented difficulties for all of us, not least the wave of mental health challenges, which are now putting pressure on already overburdened mental health services.

News

An announcement from our board of trustees

Meet our two new board members

News, Publications, UHC

Mental health: The human rights imperative in Universal Health Coverage

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.

HIV & TB, News

NEW GLOBAL FUND STRATEGY MEANINGFULLY INTEGRATES MENTAL HEALTH

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.