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  • Post-2015 UN Summit: NGO coalition urges to strengthen health and wellbeing in preamble and declaration

    Announcements  |  22nd July 2015

    Combined comments submitted by members of the Health in Post-­2015 NGO Coalition and other civil society organizations on the final draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the Post‐2015 Development Agenda.

  • FFD3: Good outcomes for health and NCDs

    Announcements  |  17th July 2015

    The major outcome of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3), which concluded yesterday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was the adoption of an outcome document containing a series of measures to renew and enhance global commitments for financing sustainable development.

  • FFD: Packed room and great discussion at NCD Alliance side event

    Announcements  |  16th July 2015

    What are the most effective means of sustainable financing for prevention and control of NCDs? This question set the tone for the side event held last Tuesday 14 July, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the margins of the Third International Conference of Financing for Development (FFD3). 

  • A self-help group (SHG) member provides a mother with information on infant and newborn care during a home visit in India.

    New mapping of CSO in SEAR region launched

    Announcements  |  15th July 2015

    We are pleased to announce the launch of the WHO SEARO and NCD Alliance mapping of civil society organisations working to prevent and control NCDs in the South East Asia Region (SEAR).

  • Jake Lyell Geeta Devi, Sumitra Devi and Mina Devi are farmers in the Banka District of Bihar, one of the poorest districts in India

    NCD Alliance side event: Sustainable financing for NCDs in the post-2015 development agenda

    Announcements  |  13th July 2015

    Against the backdrop of the Third International Conference of Financing for Development (FfD3) in Addis Ababa, this side event will examine means of sustainable financing for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as part of efforts to strengthen national health systems.

  • © Amynah Janmohamed / Photoshare, Peru

    WHO lays out plan for financing new global health goal

    Announcements  |  13th July 2015

    WHO is urging countries to move towards universal health coverage (UHC) and to scale up international investment in catalytic development funding. The call comes as world leaders convene in Ethiopia, for the Third UN Financing for Development Conference, to discuss ways to pay for the new Sustainable Development Goals, to be launched in New York in September 2015.

  • Children roll tires on a street in the Area 14 neighborhood of Lilongwe, Malawi

    AAP calls to include children in SDGs

    Announcements  |  09th July 2015

    The 17 sustainable development goals currently being negotiated by U.N. member states represent a global commitment to ending extreme poverty and increasing equity. These goals expand and continue the work of the Millennium Development Goals, which will be expiring at the end of 2015.

  • WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2015 launched

    Announcements  |  08th July 2015

    The continued success in global tobacco control is detailed in this year’s WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2015: substantial progress has been made since the entry into force of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) ten years ago.

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