22 Jan 2024
Prevalence of diabetes among the adult population in Ukraine is over 7%, and reduced access to appropriate diabetes care was quickly identified as a health crisis when the war began, garnering attention in international media and journals. At the start of the war, NGOs such as the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), Beyond Type 1 and JDRF worked with WHO and the Ministry of Health to understa...
22 Jan 2024
Briefs & Fact Sheets
22 Jan 2024
Living with and managing a chronic condition can be challenging in any circumstances. However, people living with NCDs face even greater challenges when living in a humanitarian setting. Humanitarian emergencies threaten the health, safety or well...
India
22 Nov 2023
In this feature, the Healthy India Alliance (HIA) shares the importance of meaningful involvement in tackling noncommunicable diseases in India’s NCD plan. In India, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) account for approximately 64% of all deaths, adversely affecting not only people’s health, but also the financial stability of households due to increased out-of-pocket expenses for treatmen...
22 Nov 2023
Report
15 Nov 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic made even clearer the need to develop digital health services, forcing health systems to reorientate how they delivered services in a context of social distancing and enhanced infection control protocols that often limited physi...
Report
07 Nov 2023
This report examines the achievements of national and regional NCD alliances during the second phase of the Advocacy Institute (2020-2023). The second phase of the Advocacy Institute (2020-2023) supported a total of 16 geographies as part of...
Philippines
07 Nov 2023
Human rights and social justice, NCD care, prevention and meaningful involvement dominated the discussions in the Philippines this October, as the four key pillars of the country’s recently launched National Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs. Drawing from the experience of building the global Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs in 2017, which unites the voices of al...
07 Nov 2023
30 Oct 2023
This Advocacy Briefing presents the NCDA response to the UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (HLM UHC) Political Declaration, which is currently in silence procedure and shall be adopted at the UN HLM on UHC on 21 September 2023. It is intended to support advocates in their efforts with governments. The draft Political Declaration of the United Nations (UN) High-Le...
30 Oct 2023
Publication
30 Oct 2023
This document presents the NCDA response to the UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (HLM UHC) Political Declaration, which is currently in silence procedure and shall be adopted at the UN HLM on UHC on 21 September 2023. It is intended...
13 Oct 2023
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and mental health conditions can have a significant impact on children and adolescents. Risk factors such as physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, tobacco use and harmful use of alcohol often negatively affect child and adolescent health and wellbeing and cause poor health outcomes in adu...
13 Oct 2023
Report
11 Oct 2023
Commercial marketing threatens human rights and is a major factor behind the global rise of NCDs – which cause 41 million deaths annually (74% of global mortality), with rising rates among children and young people in countries of all resource leve...
09 Oct 2023
The investment approach taken by UN agencies WHO, UNDP, and the UN Inter-agency Task Force on NCDs is crucial in generating needed whole-of-government buy-in as demonstrated in the Philippines. It includes the strengthening of policies and regulations, improving access to health services, and further developing sustainable financing mechanisms. The Philippine experience shows that investing in...
09 Oct 2023
Publication
09 Oct 2023
One in seven people suffers from migraines, including 10% of children, but the winners of the 2021 Brain Prize may have a cure. Migraines have long been attributed to stress, but scientists have now found a chemical trigger called CGRP and have devel...
