Advancing Primary Health Care for Universal Healthcare Coverage: Strategies and Solutions
17 Mar 2025
16 Mar 2025
Critical access to NCD medicines and health technologiesEquitable access to safe, effective, and quality-assured medicines and other health technologies is a cornerstone of health policies and programmes that leave no one behind. However, in the global effort to prevent, detect and treat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), mental health and neurological conditions, limited access to medicines and hea...
16 Mar 2025
16 Mar 2025
The aim of the PHC/GHI Toolbox is to provide practical information on PHC that can be used when assisting countries to access and optimally use GHI and other donor funding. It contains a PHC GHI Resources database to enable access to up-to-date...
Ghana
14 Mar 2025
The International Children's Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) and World Child Cancer-Ghana have successfully completed a one-year project to enhance children's palliative care in Ghana. The initiative, funded by Global Health Partnerships, reached over 2,500 health professionals and established palliative care services in 60 healthcare facilities across the country. The project included webinars, f...
14 Mar 2025
13 Mar 2025
This blog highlights key insights from a parallel session led by The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) in collaboration with The George Institute for Global Health (TGI) at the 4th Global NCD Alliance Forum, held in Kigali, Rwanda, from 13-15 February 2025. The session, “Knowledge isn’t power without implementation – the science behind translating community know-how into lasting ch...
13 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025
The Professor Donal O’Donoghue Global Kidney Policy Forum (PDOGKPF) is a yearly high-level meeting organized by the ISN at each World Congress of Nephrology (WCN). It brings together key decision-makers and stakeholders to address the burden of kidney diseases in a specific country or region and to share strategies for prevention and improved management of the disease at both the regional and gl...
11 Mar 2025
Publication
11 Mar 2025
Electronic nicotine delivery systems, such as e-cigarettes, have been heavily marketed as safer alternatives to conventional cigarettes, fueling the misconception that such products are harmless.However, evidence shows that electronic cigarettes are...
Report
11 Mar 2025
This first WHO report Assessing palliative care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, developed in collaboration with the ATLANTES Global Observatory of Palliative Care based at the University of Navarra, provides a systematic and comprehensive evalua...
Publication
11 Mar 2025
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as diabetes, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, mental health and neurological diseases, are one of the greatest global health and economic threats we face in our...
Article
10 Mar 2025
Rare kidney diseases constitute a significant public health challenge but have attracted limited research investment. The evidence about the socioeconomic burden of rare kidney diseases has not been systematically examined. Such evidence is critical...