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Call for input to inform advocacy priorities for the UN HLM on NCDs
Announcements | 21st November 2017
We want your input on what our advocacy priorities should be for the 2018 UN High-level Meeting and to understand civil society views on progress on NCDs since 2014. Please complete our survey by Friday 24 November.
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Katie Dain named co-chair of working group for UN High-level Meeting
Announcements | 20th November 2017
NCD Alliance CEO Katie Dain has been named co-chair of the civil society working group for the third High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on NCDs, in 2018.
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Women disproportionately affected as diabetes numbers climb
World Days | 13th November 2017
Women with diabetes face unique and multiple barriers to accessing cost-effective diabetes prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment and care, found the 8th edition of the Diabetes Atlas.
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More work is needed to meaningfully involve people living with NCDs, concludes Breakthrough Breakfast
| 13th November 2017
More needs to be done to support meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs (PLWNCDs), concluded the Breakthrough Breakfast organised by NCD Alliance at the WHO Global Conference on NCDs.
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Defeating malnutrition requires 'critical step change'
Announcements | 08th November 2017
Malnutrition has become so pervasive globally that it threatens achievement of any of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), says the 2017 Global Nutrition Report, launched 3 Nov.
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How trade policy affects health in the Caribbean
| 07th November 2017
Non-health ministries must become aware of how their actions affect health, particularly NCDs, urges a new policy brief by Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC).
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Together we are stronger
Announcements | 03rd November 2017
The Our Views, Our Voices workshop held this week in Geneva brought together 34 participants living with NCDs from 22 countries. The group finalised the Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs.
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Global health emergency looming as a result of climate change
| 30th October 2017
Climate change is already having major effects on health worldwide and a global health emergency looms, according to new research released by The Lancet medical journal.