A blog from United for Global Mental Health and partners, offering diverse opinions and insights on global mental health advocacy.
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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Reflecting on 2021: Highlights from our year so far
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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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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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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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When the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria asks what are the most pressing challenges and opportunities in the fight against HIV and TB (as part of an open consultation to steer the development of their next strategy), our recommendation is clear. Put mental health - through psychosocial support - at the heart of their response.
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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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