The Global Advocate
A blog from United for Global Mental Health and partners, offering diverse opinions and insights on global mental health advocacy.
Articles
Education, News
Pride month and mental health: we’ve achieved a lot but there’s a long way to go
As Pride month comes to a close, we’re reflecting and celebrating.
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HIV/TB, News, Universal Health Coverage
In case you missed it! Three key takeaways from the World Health Assembly 2022
Last month, health ministers from around the world gathered for the annual World Health Assembly. Our team at United for Global Mental Health followed along to see where and how mental health was addressed.
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News
An appeal for urgent support from Sri Lanka
This is a blog from CAN MH Lanka, a civil society organisation working with the Government of Sri Lanka to address the urgent mental health needs in the country.
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News, Rights
Brief: Mental health should be meaningfully integrated into UHC systems
Using new research, our latest brief highlights the need for, and the substantial mental and physical health benefits of, integrating mental health into UHC.
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News, Rights
One step forward, three steps back: progress and peril for USA mental health parity
As President of Well Being Trust, Benjamin F. Miller, PsyD, oversees the implementation of the foundation’s strategies and full portfolio of investments and partnerships to help Well Being Trust have a real-world impact on America’s mental health and addiction crisis.
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Financing
Brief: Financing mental health for all
With mental health at the forefront of the conversation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunity for once-in-a-generation change is being presented. The integration of mental health into universal health coverage (UHC) reforms during the run in to 2030 (the target year for the Sustainable Development Goals which include achieving UHC) is being promoted as a key pandemic response, recovery and preparedness element, and as we argued in our previous brief in this series, universal mental health coverage is also a fundamental right.
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Mental health in India’s 2022 national budget
This year’s budget was one of those rare occasions when mental health got the attention of the Indian policy makers at the national level.
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