Global Governance Project has asked the governments of the world to ensure that the design of UHC will be deliberate on treating mental illnesses to avert the past narrative of untreated mental illnesses and their dire consequences and risks on both the people and intervention.
Global Governance Project is asking governments to ensure that UHC will be equipped to treat mental illnesses since it’s a real health need to the majority poor.
Global governance Project says that the world has made declarations to promote mental health wellness since the UN 1966 recognizing that physical and mental wellness was a right of but mental wellness has been ignored.
This is characterized by the weak health systems that until now do not meet the standards to promote optimum and mental wellness despite being factored in the SDGs of 2030. In fact, there is no public health system equipped with resources needed to promote mental health wellness as stipulated by international law.
This has resulted into many new reports of mental illnesses which is extremely expensive to treat because more cases of depression, anxiety crop up with new challenges of comorbidity such as mental health illness and infection with HIV, or Tuberculosis, or TB/HIV.
All these carry the risk of a more complex problem which is creating drug resistance and is likely to impact future development, especially on HIV eradication.
“We argue that mental health must be reframed within the sustainable development framework and that mental health care is an essential component of universal health coverage. Mental health conditions adversely affect medication adherence for HIV, tuberculosis and TB/HIV co-infection, and are significant risk factors for developing drug resistance, loss to follow up and death. It is hard to see how the global HIV target of 90-90-90 will be reached without investment in mental health services,” stated The Global Governance Project.
Global Governance Project has warned that deliberate intervention efforts to treat mental illness should be made going forward if the interventions expect to achieve any success in all health projects. Global Governance Project warned that if the health sector intends to achieve success in any of its health intervention projects across the world then Universal Health Coverage must factor in mental health.
The reforms in law have been criticized to always leave out mental health interventions concerns yet the most vulnerable to mental illnesses who need these services, the majority poor and the refugees , solely rely on government availed services for treatment.
They recommend a right-based approach through the community-based systems that avails services which are accessible to those in need of mental health services based on the status of the communities and the mental illness diseases severity.
UHC is recommended to solve these problems because it is designed to deal with health issues using a human rights approach that gets rid of previous coercive intervention systems to treat the impactful diseases which in most cases are very cheap to treat.
“Universal health coverage is a rights-based approach to health. An equity approach will significantly improve mental health outcome for sub-groups in populations-often the poorest and those most marginalized such as refugees or sexual minorities –who disproportionately experience mental health conditions,” stated The Global Governance Project.
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