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Final Statement from the 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion, which took place in Helsinki, Finland on 10-14 June 2013.

Click here to read the statement.

A blog by Dr. Elizabeth Omondi on "NCD Africa: A Call for The Humane Treatment of Cancer Patients in Africa"

Read the post via GACD

"5 JUNE 2013 | GENEVA/NEW YORK - Many low- and middle-income countries are neglecting overweight and obesity as major health threats, with policies in place to tackle undernutrition, but lack policies to halt the growing burden of diseases due to the rise of overweight, and obesity, according to new information released by WHO today."

More information via WHO

"(New York, USA) – In advance of World No Tobacco Day, World Lung Foundation (WLF) revealed the results of a recent survey into the use of social media by tobacco control advocates. Respondents from more than 91 countries – mostly from low-and-middle income countries targeted by tobacco industry as the next growth market – articulated a landscape of great enthusiasm but without formal approach."

More via World Lung Foundation

Several prominent doctors with a strong background on NCDs in Africa have written reviews on heart disease, diabetes and stroke in the region including the former President of the International Diabetes Federation, Prof. Jean-Claude Mbanya.

The reviews have been published in the Heart Magazine a component of the BMJ group and be found here

This years World Health Assembly (WHA) was a major moment for NCDs, marking the end of several ongoing consultation processes and putting in place the strong foundations of a global NCD framework.

During the week of WHA, countries began to earnestly discuss a draft “omnibus resolution” on NCDs. This resolution sought to combine major decisions and recommendations in a single, comprehensive resolution.

Global health and development experts gathered today to call for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to be integrated into the post-2015 development agenda, following the opening day of the sixty-sixth World Health Assembly (WHA).

There will be several important items up for discussion at 66th World Health Assembly. The article touches upon some of them including NCDs as a 'big agenda item.' The NCD Alliance's Director of Policy and Campaigns was interviewed.

For the article please click here.

"The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), are pleased to announce the call for applications for Research Fellowships for the Analysis of NCD Prevention Policies in Africa (ANPPA). The ANPPA Fellowship Program seeks to build capacity and the knowledge base for the utilization of multi-sectoral approaches in policy formulation and implementation for NCD prevention in the region."

Click here for more information from APHRC.

3 May 2013,  Paris, France – “It’s time to control asthma”, according to this year’s World Asthma Day theme, but the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) says the low availability and the prohibitive cost of asthma inhalers continue to be serious challenges in low- and middle-income countries.  With the vast majority of the 235 million people affected by asthma living in such limited-resource settings, The Union established the Asthma Drug Facility (ADF) to help overcome these barriers.