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Mallika Chaulagain from TPO Nepal discusses a radio program entitled 'You can conquer the world if you’re alive' which has been produced for the promotion of psychosocial support and prevention of suicide.

In this blog, Pragya Lamsal and Rita Gautam from CBM discuss the consequences of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake on the mental health of the population and the launch of the International Mental Health Conference (2018) as a platform to promote more cost-effective and efficient approached to mental health care in Nepal. The blog highlights Nepal's commitment in breaking the silence on mental health issues and details recommendations for the journey ahead to address the need of comprehensive mental health care in the country.

For this year's World Refugee Day 2018 we have rounded up our #MHPSSMatters content addressing the mental health needs of refugees in order to mark the day.

This Q&A blog series for mental health awareness month is celebrating the theme of leadership in mental health around the world! This Q&A blog was directed at Urvita Bhatia from Sangath to learn more about their annual flagship Leadership in Mental Health course as part of our blog series and in anticipation of the upcoming Leadership Exchange in Stockholm.

This blog recounts the author’s journey to an old age home deep within the Spiti Valley in North India. It describes his experience learning of the challenges facing elderly people who are often abandoned by their families, stripped of social support and left emotionally vulnerable as a result. His story narrates the good will of two young women who struggle against all odds to provide a home, hope and happiness to the elderly forgotten by their families.

To mark the launch of the RISING-SUN (Reducing the Incidence of Suicide in Indigenous Groups - Strengths United through Networks) toolkit, Roberto Delgado from the US National Institute of Mental Health highlights successful examples of programs developed by Arctic communities that have addressed underlying factors associated with suicide in their community.

In this post, Global MINDS Fellow Paula Njeru reflects on her experience attending the Summer Institute 2018.

Krithika Muthukumaran describes the global opioid dilemma through her dual lens of growing up in Chennai with a mother who is a palliative care physician, and experiencing the North American crisis after moving to Canada for her PhD.