GMHAN response to the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration of the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health

As part of the preparatory activities for the Fourth High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the prevention and control of NCDs and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing (HLM4), the President of the General Assembly and the Co-facilitators of the intergovernmental negotiations process have released the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration – available on the On the Road to 2025 campaign website.

The Global Mental Health Action Network (GMHAN), the world’s leading advocacy network for mental health with more than 6,000 members from 170 countries, welcomes the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration for the High-Level Meeting (HLM) on NCDs and Mental Health.

We are excited to see mental health and psychosocial wellbeing fully integrated into the Political Declaration of a UN High-Level Meeting for the first time and encouraged that so many important commitments on mental health are incorporated, as outlined in: (i) Our joint Briefing on Priorities for Mental Health at the HLM, endorsed by all major international mental health organisations, and (ii) the key positions shared by national mental health advocates at the Multi-Stakeholder Hearing at the UN on May 2nd.

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