30 Sep 2024
This open letter to world leaders serves as a crucial advocacy tool, urging all governments to fulfil their commitments to address the burden of NCDs. It calls on Member States to take decisive action at the Fourth UN High-level Meeting on NCDs in Se...
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29 Sep 2024
Patient navigation is a strategy for overcoming barriers to reduce disparities and to improve access and outcomes. The aim of this umbrella review was to identify, critically appraise, synthesize, and present the best available evidence to inform pol...
29 Sep 2024
To raise awareness about the dangers of cardiovascular diseases, ADJ conducted a campaign to alert everyone about the importance of preventing cardiovascular diseases and promoting healthy habits. The main risk factors for cardiovascular events are hypertension, diabetes, family history, and smoking.560 people were attended to, and we conducted total and fraction cholesterol tests, capillary blood...
29 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024
For the 2024 World Cancer Congress, the World Health Organization and City Cancer Challenge co-designed a session focused on multistakeholder collaboration in cancer care – a key approach to tackling the rising burden of cancer and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). More than 60 participants discussed the challenges and opportunities of public-...
27 Sep 2024
Guide
27 Sep 2024
This Handbook walks non-State actors engaging with the World Health Organization (WHO) through the principles and processes of the Framework of engagement with non-State actors (FENSA) to ensure smooth interaction with WHO. The Handbook does not r...
27 Sep 2024
Dr Iryna Vlasenko is a Ukrainian pharmacist and Vice President of the International Diabetes Federation. She lives with type 1 diabetes. She remembers her reaction to being told she had diabetes, 31 years ago: “I could not accept my diagnosis. I was a student. I was a very active person in every way, dancing, doing sport. This couldn’t be happening to me, it wasn’t possible. A condi...
27 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the mental health crisis among children and adolescents has become more pronounced globally. In Malaysia, the situation is particularly dire, with the 2022 National Health Morbidity Survey revealing that one in four adolescents is battling depression, and one in ten has reported a suicidal attempt. These alarming statistics highlight the urgent need for target...
27 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024
Maseru – “It was a no-brainer,” says 34-year-old ‘Malihaelo Qhobela of her decision to allow her 13-year-old daughter, Lihaelo, to be vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) at Soofia International School in Lesotho’s Butha-Buthe District. HPV, a sexually transmitted disease, is the leading cause of cervical cancer, a major health issue in Lesotho. Approximately, 541 wo...
27 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024
Port Louis – Sutrajeet Ghuburrun was 16 when he smoked his first cigarette. Over the next 40 years, the taxi driver from Bel Air, a village in the east of Mauritius, smoked between 15 and 20 cigarettes a day. Although he had long known about the harms of smoking, it was only in 2022, following a coronary angioplasty (a procedure to open narrowed arteries), that he finally quit. He is now mo...
27 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024
Juba ‒ Cecilia Achuwor, a 38-year-old mother of six children, is one of the hundreds of thousands of refugees and returnees who have crossed the border into South Sudan since the beginning of the conflict in neighbouring Sudan 16 months ago. “My husband remains in Khartoum,” she says. “We separated from him without any communication. He doesn’t know where we are and we also don’t...
27 Sep 2024
Publication
27 Sep 2024
WHO has progressively strengthened its work for adolescent health, growing its portfolio of research, norms and standards, country support and advocacy, and expanding the scope of work across over 17 departments, regional and country offices to addre...
