To coincide with World Obesity Day's weight stigma theme this 11 October, Stuart Flint explains why weight stigma and discrimination is a priority, and how we can all look at what we can do to improve the narrative. 

With national elections in Mexico on 1 July, civil society organisation Mexico Salud-Hable has been taking a bold and innovative approach to ensuring that health features squarely on candidates’ manifestos.

The Government of Jamaica has restricted sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) in the country’s schools and public health facilities as of January 2019, according to the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC).

NCDA today reiterated its call to governments to follow WHO guidance to put the health of citizens first and adopt a more comprehensive approach to taxation – including sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs).

The NCD Alliance has updated the policy brief Ambitious, SMART commitments to address NCDs, overweight & obesity. It illustrates how recommendations in the 2nd International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) Framework for Action can be translated into policy commitments.

Make the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition count for all forms of malnutrition. The brief focuses on select SMART commitments which target overweight & obesity and nutrition-related NCDs.