Submitted by ncd-admin on 20 diciembre, 2016 - 09:01
Recap 2016 with some down-time reading from our blog; bring in 2017 with fresh insights and new inspiration to make even more progress on prevention and control of NCDs.
GACD has opened its 4th call for funding applications focusing on implementation research proposals on child, adolescent and adult age onset mental disorders.
On the occasion of the third annual Universal Health Coverage Day, the NCD Alliance and partners co-hosted an event exploring the interlinkages between urbanizing systems and health.
World Cancer Day takes place every 4 February. This year, "Support through Sport" social media campaign invites everyone to team up with local clubs, teams or sports events to fight cancer together.
In a breakthrough consensus, Codex Alimentarius Committee agreed to include reference to WHO’s recommendations for strict controls on the marketing and labelling of formulas for babies over six months.
Members of the Norwegian Parliament have overwhelmingly voted in favour of implementing standardised packaging for tobacco products, despite intense lobbying by the tobacco industry to sway politicians against the measure.
Women Deliver's new campaign, Deliver for Good, focuses on the issues that affect girls' and women's lives through an integrated approach by promoting action on 12 investment areas and applying a gender lens to the SDGs.
The second edition of the Global NCD Alliance Forum, the most important event convening CSOs working on the prevention and control of NCDs worldwide, will take place in one year, from 9 to 11 December 2017 in Sharjah, UAE.
Submitted by ncd-admin on 9 diciembre, 2016 - 09:07
For UHC day on 12th December, Catharine Taylor, of MSH & the NCDA Steering Group, reflects on the need to act with ambition and cooperation to strengthen health systems to achieve UHC goals.
Over 60 representatives of European civil society organisations will meet in Brussels next week to follow-up on the adoption of the 2016-2025 WHO European action plan for the prevention and control of NCDs.
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