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NCD Alliance hosted this week an event in the margins of the 71st UN General Assembly focused on Leveraging Solutions to Improve Access to Healthcare for People Living with NCDs, held in New York. 

World Heart Federation calls on governments to increase efforts to prevent and control the growing epidemic of cardiovascular disease (CVD), the number one cause of death in the world.

How do we ensure access to healthy food for all within planetary boundaries? This was the question central to two high-level events at the 71st UN General Assembly in New York in which NCD Alliance participated. 

A new report from Alzheimer’s Disease International reveals that most people with dementia have yet to receive a diagnosis, let alone comprehensive and continuing healthcare.

Uruguay's President Tabaré Vázquez has called on global leaders & communities to unite in tackling NCDs during a speech at UNGA in New York.

NCD Alliance has announced that the second Global NCD Alliance Forum will take place on 9-11 December 2017 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

According to a High-Level Panel convened to advise the UN Secretary-General on improving access to medicines, the world must take bold new approaches to both health technology innovation and ensuring access so that all people can benefit from the medical advances that have dramatically improved the lives of millions around the world in the last century. 

A newly discovered cache of industry documents revealed that the sugar industry began working closely with nutrition scientists in the mid-1960s to single out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of coronary heart disease and to downplay evidence that sucrose consumption was also a risk factor.

Do you know how heart healthy you are? With World Heart Day 2016 fast approaching the World Heart Federation is urging people across the globe to take a closer look at their heart health and consider changes they could make to power their lives more effectively.

This side event will examine the different dimensions of access to healthcare for NCDs in the context of health systems strengthening.