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UN leads call to protect most vulnerable from mental health crisis during and after COVID-19

World Health Organization | 15 May 2020

Decades of neglect and underinvestment in addressing people’s mental health needs have been exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN said on Thursday, in a call for ambitious commitments from countries in the way they treat psychological illness, amid a potential global spike in suicides and drug abuse.

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