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New YP-CDN Blog Series on achieving the SDGs through action on NCDs
Announcements | 04th January 2017
YPCDN will soon launch a new blog series featuring engaging pieces on how each of the 17 SDGs is tied to NCDs. Find out how you can contribute, or subscribe.
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New NCDFREE Film: Tackling Trauma
Announcements | 20th December 2016
NCDFREE has released its latest film 'Tackling Trauma'. The film follows the story of Frank, an asylum seeker in Denmark, who recieves both health and social support from a local volunteer run project called Trampoline House.
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Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases mental health research call open
Announcements | 19th December 2016
GACD has opened its 4th call for funding applications focusing on implementation research proposals on child, adolescent and adult age onset mental disorders.
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Health for all: sustainable systems in an urbanizing world
Announcements | 15th December 2016
On the occasion of the third annual Universal Health Coverage Day, the NCD Alliance and partners co-hosted an event exploring the interlinkages between urbanizing systems and health.
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World Cancer Day 2017 Support through Sport social media campaign launched
World Days | 14th December 2016
World Cancer Day takes place every 4 February. This year, "Support through Sport" social media campaign invites everyone to team up with local clubs, teams or sports events to fight cancer together.
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Global standard-setting committee puts child health before trade
Announcements | 14th December 2016
In a breakthrough consensus, Codex Alimentarius Committee agreed to include reference to WHO’s recommendations for strict controls on the marketing and labelling of formulas for babies over six months.
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Norway adopts standardised packaging to save lives and prevent suffering from tobacco use
Announcements | 13th December 2016
Members of the Norwegian Parliament have overwhelmingly voted in favour of implementing standardised packaging for tobacco products, despite intense lobbying by the tobacco industry to sway politicians against the measure.
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NCD Alliance joins the Deliver for Good Campaign
Announcements | 13th December 2016
Women Deliver's new campaign, Deliver for Good, focuses on the issues that affect girls' and women's lives through an integrated approach by promoting action on 12 investment areas and applying a gender lens to the SDGs.