The Global Advocate
A blog from United for Global Mental Health and partners, offering diverse opinions and insights on global mental health advocacy.
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Countdown Global Mental Health 2030
GLOBAL AND NATIONAL ACTION IS NEEDED TO PROTECT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF YOUNG PEOPLE
Even before 2020 the mental health of young people was a huge concern. Deaths by suicide are often highest among young people - according to UNICEF, 1 young person aged 10-19 dies by suicide every 11 minutes.
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HIV/TB, News
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.
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News
Reflecting on 2021: Highlights from our year so far
Reflecting on 2021: Highlights from our year so far
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Rights, 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.
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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.
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News
A look back at World Mental Health Day 2021
A greater range of groups across more countries than ever before took part including people with lived experience, civil society organisations, academics, governments and the private sector.
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Putting mental health at the heart of the HIV and TB global response
Two weeks ahead of critically important discussions on the new strategy of the Global Fund to Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria, it is increasingly clear that unless mental health moves from being seen as a “bolt on” to the HIV and TB response, reaching the global targets to end these epidemics will remain elusive.
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