The 2016 World Cancer Congress will take place from 31 October-3 November in Paris, France. The conference will feature a dedicated NCD Programme, including seven NCD Café Sessions.
Draft Interim Reports emerging from the ongoing WHO GCM/NCD Working Groups on the inclusion of NCDs in other programmatic areas and on the alignment of international cooperation with national plans on NCDs, are now available for comment.
Civil society representatives from the NCD Alliance network made several statements WHO Regional Committee Meeting for the Africa Region, ensuring that messages of support and urgency were clearly heard.
Despite the consequences NCDs & their risk factors, few people are familiar with the term. What’s lost in debates over acronyms is the stories about people affected by these diseases.
This policy brief provides an overview of the approaches used by the Barbados Ministry of Finance in the adoption of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxation.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today the appointment of Mr Michael R. Bloomberg as the first WHO Global Ambassador for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).
The Nutrition for Growth meeting on the eve of the Rio Olympics gave pause to reflect, and look toward 2017 for an opportunity for governments to plege scaled up commitments.
Take any NCD statistic, look at the highest figure & chances are it is from a Pacific Island country. Ferdinand Strobel of UNDP describes the region's NCD challenges & response.