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27 May 2025

World Health Organization

WHA78: Member States highlight the crucial role of the GCM/NCD in driving multisectoral and multistakeholder action on NCDs

At the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly (WHA78), Member States acknowledged the independent mid-term evaluation of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (GCM/NCD) under&nbsp;agenda item 12. The mid-term evaluation was discussed alongside follow-up to the political declaration of the third High-Level Meeting of the United Nations General...

27 May 2025

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27 May 2025

United for Global Mental Health

Ensuring the voices of mental health civil society are truly represented and heard

Traditionally, the global health sector has been dominated by large civil society organisations (CSOs) based in high-income countries speaking on behalf of everyone else. Mental health has too often been left behind.UnitedGMH has always sought to do things differently: we want CSOs from Low-Middle Income Countries and particularly People with Lived Experience to be heard directly.As secretariat fo...

27 May 2025

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27 May 2025

Joab Wako

Lived experience insights: Shifting power dynamics for a meaningful say in people’s health

About this SeriesThis article is part of the Lived Experience Perspectives Series, which features firsthand accounts from individuals living with noncommunicable diseases, mental health, or neurological conditions. Each piece highlights one of the key advocacy messages from the WHO Symposium on the Meaningful Engagement of People Living with NCDs, Mental Health, and Neurological Conditions, contri...

27 May 2025

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25 May 2025

United for Global Mental Health

United for Global Mental Health and the 78th World Health Assembly

by Sarah Kline.&nbsp;What a week! The World Health Assembly (WHA) gathers health ministers and the health community from around the world. Mental health is firmly on the global and national agenda, and we have left Geneva feeling optimistic and energised.&nbsp;Mental health had the highest profile at a WHA that we’ve ever seen, and for all the right reasons:Numerous governments committed to actO...

25 May 2025

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23 May 2025

World Diabetes Foundation, International Diabetes Federation

Bridging gaps through digital health transformation

On May 19th, the World Diabetes Foundation co-organized a flagship event with the International Diabetes Federation titled "Digital Health Transformation in the Global NCD Response – A Call for Unified Approaches and Scaled Investment."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Digital health solutions offer valuable opportunities to enhance patient care and make quality healthcare more accessible, particularly fo...

23 May 2025

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16 May 2025

World Health Organization, Dr Michelle Funk

WHO blueprint for mental health policy and law reform

Mental health is a public health priority and a fundamental human right.&nbsp;Yet, many systems remain reliant on biomedical models and institutional care, overlooking social and structural determinants and international human rights standards. People with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities often face discrimination, stigma, and coercion in care settings.The COVID-19 pandemic i...

16 May 2025

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15 May 2025

United for Global Mental Health

United for Global Mental Health Statement for the United Nations Multistakeholder Hearing on NCDs, by Dr Hamdi Issa

"Excellencies and distinguished guests, my name is Dr Hamdi Issa - I am speaking on behalf of United for Global Mental Health and as a representative of the Global Mental Health Action Network that brings together 6,000 advocates from 170 countries.As mental health advocates we recognise that the UN high level meeting on NCDs andMental Health presents a unique opportunity for member states to acce...

15 May 2025

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09 May 2025

United for Global Mental Health

A Transformative Moment for Global Mental Health Advocacy

GMHAN at the Multistakeholder Hearing on noncommunicable diseases (NCD) and mental health and wellbeing2025 is a historic year for mental health advocacy. For many years to come, we will look back on it and reflect on the political declaration made by United Nations (UN) Member States this coming September at the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting (HLM) - the first ever HLM at the United Natio...

09 May 2025

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08 May 2025

NCD Alliance

NCD voices from SIDS and other countries calling for leadership ahead of HLM4

In late April, NCD advocates from around the world gathered in New York to recharge their efforts and meet with their countries’ representatives ahead of the fourth UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health (HLM4). At HLM4, countries will renew their commitments to stopping the world’s biggest killer, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), from claiming 43 million lives every year. The Multi-S...

08 May 2025

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06 May 2025

World Diabetes Foundation

World Diabetes Foundation Statement at the UN multi-stakeholder meeting, May 2025

Statement from Bent Lautrup-Nielsen, Head of Global Advocacy at the World Diabetes Foundation&nbsp;'Presidency of the General Assembly, the Permanent Representative to the United Nations of Luxembourg and St. Vincent-Grenadines, Honorable Delegates of this multi-stakeholder hearing, the fourth UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health, later this year, must focus on implementation and scale-...

06 May 2025

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06 May 2025

World Health Organization

Working together to make asthma a global health priority

To mark World Asthma Day 2025, the Global Asthma Network (GAN) launches the Global Asthma Report 2025: Patient Stories, a compelling collection of stories from people living with asthma around the world. The report shines a spotlight on the daily challenges individuals face – from delayed diagnoses to unaffordable or unavailable inhaled medicines – as well as the life-changing benefits of time...

06 May 2025

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06 May 2025

World Health Organization, Dévora Kestel

Mental health and NCDs: A shared but differentiated agenda for the 2025 UN High-level meeting

More so than previous UN General Assembly high-level meetings on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs),&nbsp;mental health&nbsp;has featured prominently in the discussions and preparations for the fourth high-level meeting, to be held in September 2025. In this opening commentary, the links between mental health, mental health conditions and other diseases – including but not limited to the major NCDs...

06 May 2025

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