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06 May 2025

World Health Organization

Working together to make asthma a global health priority

To mark World Asthma Day 2025, the Global Asthma Network (GAN) launches the Global Asthma Report 2025: Patient Stories, a compelling collection of stories from people living with asthma around the world. The report shines a spotlight on the daily challenges individuals face – from delayed diagnoses to unaffordable or unavailable inhaled medicines – as well as the life-changing benefits of time...

06 May 2025

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06 May 2025

World Health Organization, Dévora Kestel

Mental health and NCDs: A shared but differentiated agenda for the 2025 UN High-level meeting

More so than previous UN General Assembly high-level meetings on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs),&nbsp;mental health&nbsp;has featured prominently in the discussions and preparations for the fourth high-level meeting, to be held in September 2025. In this opening commentary, the links between mental health, mental health conditions and other diseases – including but not limited to the major NCDs...

06 May 2025

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05 May 2025

World Health Organization, Dr Bruce Aylward, Dr Jérôme Salomon

Primary health care: a scalable solution to the noncommunicable diseases and mental health crisis

The global health and equity crisis of NCDs and mental health is so vast that deciding how to respond can seem overwhelmingly complex. The best starting point, however, is no mystery. The primary health care approach is a globally scalable and holistic approach that holds the power to lessen the NCD and mental health burden and improve the lives of billions.Two billion people live with NCDs includ...

05 May 2025

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05 May 2025

Hundreds of millions living without access to inhaled medicines for COPD and asthma

A new campaign launched on World Asthma Day will raise awareness about the wide gaps inaccess to inhaled medicines that are causing a massive burden of suffering for the hundreds of millions living with chronic lung diseases across the world, and significant economic costs.&nbsp;The Increasing Access to Inhaled Medicines for COPD and Asthma campaign is an initiative of the Forum of International R...

05 May 2025

<!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: ▪️ field--node--title--news-and-events.html.twig ✅ field--node--title.html.twig ▪️ field--node--news-and-events.html.twig ▪️ field--title.html.twig ▪️ field--string.html.twig ▪️ field.html.twig --> <!-- 💡 BEGIN CUSTOM TEMPLATE OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/whokap/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> WHO Civil Society Working Group on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) calls for all governments to take urgent action to protect billions of people affected by NCDs and mental health conditions <!-- END CUSTOM TEMPLATE OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/whokap/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' -->

02 May 2025

WHO Civil Society Working Group

WHO Civil Society Working Group on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) calls for all governments to take urgent action to protect billions of people affected by NCDs and mental health conditions

Urgent action is needed to address the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health conditions globally. Cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, among other chronic conditions, are the leading cause of death worldwide, responsible for over 74% of global mortality. Progress toward Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4, which aims to reduce p...

02 May 2025

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02 May 2025

The Australian Centre for Lived Experience, Global Mental Health Action Network

The Australian Centre for Lived Experience and the Global Mental Health Action Network Statement for the United Nations Multistakeholder Hearing on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs)

On May 2nd, I had the profound honour of delivering a speech at the&nbsp;United Nations Multistakeholder Hearing on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health, in New York—part of the lead-up to the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs in September 2025 with the&nbsp;Global Mental Health Action Network&nbsp;United for Global Mental Health."Thank you chair, constituents and co-creators,Good after...

02 May 2025

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02 May 2025

United for Global Mental Health, Global Mental Health Action Network

Global Mental Health Action Network Statement for the United Nations Multistakeholder Hearing on NCDs, by Muskan Lamba

"My sincere greetings to everyone in this room!&nbsp;My name is Muskan Lamba, and I’m representing the Global Mental Health Action Network today as a youth representative. I come from Delhi, India, where summer temperatures are already approaching 50 degrees Celsius. This matters deeply to any conversation on NCDs and mental health, because heat stress is unjustly felt across low and middle inco...

02 May 2025

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01 May 2025

World Health Organization

Unheard, unseen, under-served: Placing lived experiences at the heart of palliative care reform 

Last week the NCD Department hosted a webinar "Unheard, unseen, under-served: Placing lived experiences at the heart of palliative care reform&nbsp;”&nbsp;The event highlight the importance of integrating palliative care as a core component of NCD management to improve quality of life and health outcomes, while recognizing the need to listen and incorporate the experiences of those with lived ex...

01 May 2025

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22 Apr 2025

United for Global Mental Health

Reflections from participants from the youth multi-stakeholder hearing

Young people are key drivers of change in the mental health movement and their leadership was on full display at the recent youth multi-stakeholder hearing organised by the World Health Organization. Held as part of the lead up to the 2025 UN High Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health, the event brought together advocates from across the globe to share their experiences.&nbsp;&nbsp;At GMHAN we a...

22 Apr 2025

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15 Apr 2025

World Health Organization

Business for health: First dialogue with deans and directors of public health and business schools on preventing and managing NCDs

At the first dialogue on business and public health convergence, deans, directors and senior faculty of business and public health schools met with business leaders and global health experts to explore&nbsp;research, teaching and leadership that can transform the economic, commercial, environmental and social determinants of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).&nbsp;As the leading cause of death and d...

15 Apr 2025

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09 Apr 2025

WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs

The 3rd WHO Symposium on Meaningful Engagement of People Living with NCDs, Mental Health and Neurological Conditions

The&nbsp;WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs&nbsp;is&nbsp;hosting&nbsp;the&nbsp;Third Symposium on the Meaningful Engagement of People Living with Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs), Mental Health, and Neurological Conditions, to be held on&nbsp;24 April 2025&nbsp;as part of the&nbsp;Second General Meeting of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs (GCM/NCD).The&nbsp;Third WHO Symposium&n...

09 Apr 2025

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08 Apr 2025

Forum of International Respiratory Societies

FIRS and GLI Launch Global Taskforce to Improve Lung Health Assessment

FIRS and GLI Launch Global Taskforce to Improve Lung Health AssessmentThe Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) has launched the FIRS Lung Health Taskforce, an ambitious new initiative to improve the way lung health is assessed and managed around the world. In partnership with the Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI), the Taskforce brings together leading experts to lay the groundwo...

08 Apr 2025

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