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16 Dec 2020

World Health Organization

NCD Voices in the Decade of Action - Transforming Food Systems to Build Back Better

This webinar in NCD Voices in the Decade of Action focused on Transforming Food Systems to Build Back Better. Here we unpackaged the interlinkages between food systems and NCD, highlighting the common elements and opportunities this brings as we develop healthier and more sustainable food systems. Speakers included: Dr Naoko Yamamoto, Assistant Director-General, UHC and Healthier Populati...

16 Dec 2020

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Guidelines on the management of chronic pain in children.

Guide

10 Dec 2020

In these guidelines, the World Health Organization (WHO) provides evidence-informed recommendations for the management of chronic pain in children. The recommendations are based on the most current, high-quality scientific evidence, and were formulat...

GuideCancerAccess to essential medicines and services

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WHO

Guiding Principles and Framework Manual for Front-of-Pack Labelling for promoting Healthy Diets

Publication

25 Nov 2020

Front-of-pack labelling (FOPL) is an important policy tool for countries to help consumers to make healthier food choices. This document – WHO guiding principles and framework manual for front-ofpack labelling for promoting healthy diets – has be...

PublicationUnhealthy diets

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18 Nov 2020

World Health Organization

WHO announces certification programme for trans fat elimination

A new WHO Certification Programme for Trans Fat Elimination aims to recognize countries that have eliminated industrially produced trans-fatty acids (TFA) from their national food supplies. This is the first-ever certification programme that will recognize countries for their efforts to eliminate one of the main risk factors for noncommunicable diseases and protect their populations from premature...

18 Nov 2020

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15 Nov 2020

World Health Organization

World Diabetes Day 2020: Introducing the Global Diabetes Compact

This year’s World Diabetes Day falls during a global pandemic which has already taken the lives of well over a million people. People with diabetes are paying a particularly high price. Not only do they have a higher risk of severe COVID-19 disease and death when infected, but many are having difficulty accessing the treatment they need due to disruptions to essential health services. Read mo...

15 Nov 2020

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15 Nov 2020

World Health Organization

Vanuatu: caring for people with diabetes

With its population scattered across 83 islands, reaching everyone in Vanuatu who lives with a noncommunicable disease (NCD), such as diabetes, has been both a long-standing ambition and a logistical challenge. To help achieve this goal, WHO has worked with the Government of Vanuatu to introduce a package of interventions to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases through the primary health c...

15 Nov 2020

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The Lancet

Mortality impact of achieving WHO cervical cancer elimination targets: a comparative modelling analysis in 78 low-income and lower-middle-income countries

Article

14 Nov 2020

WHO is developing a global strategy towards eliminating cervical cancer as a public health problem, which proposes an elimination threshold of four cases per 100 000 women and includes 2030 triple-intervention coverage targets for scale-up of human...

ArticleCancer

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World Health Organization

Global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem

Strategy document

14 Nov 2020

This global strategy to eliminate cervical cancer proposes: a vision of a world where cervical cancer is eliminated as a public health problem; a threshold of 4 per 100 000 women-years for elimination as a public health problem;&nbsp; the f...

Strategy documentCancer

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29 Oct 2020

World Health Organization

Young people and digital health interventions: working together to design better

WHO and partners launch new guidance on designing digital health interventions with and for young people.&nbsp;Digital tools are an increasingly popular approach to improving health worldwide – particularly among adolescents and young people, who are accessing the internet at earlier stages of life. Youth-centred digital health interventions is&nbsp;a new framework developed by WHO, HRP, UNESCO,...

29 Oct 2020

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World Economic Forum

Accelerating Digital Inclusion in the New Normal

26 Oct 2020

COVID-19 has highlighted how critical digital connectivity is to governments, businesses, and society, and has brought a newfound sense of urgency to the digital inclusion agenda. While the crisis has enabled hundreds of millions to participate onlin...

Digital health and innovation

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World Economic Forum

COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs

Report

26 Oct 2020

The COVID-19 Action Agenda recognizes the vital role of social entrepreneurs as operating on the frontline of the crisis and as an important actor in centering a reset of capitalism around the needs of the most vulnerable. Through our COVID Social En...

ReportChronic Respiratory DiseasesCommunicable diseases

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26 Oct 2020

World Diabetes Foundation

‘Is that Omondi, who used to be sick?’

WDF staff meet people with diabetes worldwide, and each has a story. Here, we introduce Eric Omondi, a young Kenyan with type 1 diabetes. As a kid, Eric had a reputation as ‘the bright one’ in Sirembe, a village in Southwestern Kenya. He was the third-born of seven siblings: curious, earnest and good in school. But in sixth grade he started feeling ill. The symptoms resembled malaria, so...

26 Oct 2020

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