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Our Views, Our Voices celebrates five years of calling for meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs
Announcements | 30th November 2022
This week, we are celebrating the five-year anniversary of Our Views, Our Voices initiative and all of the strides we’ve made. Take a look at the past five years at a glance!
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COP27: Open letter calls on UN climate agency to drop Coca-Cola
Announcements | 11th November 2022
Together with 59 other health organisations from around the world, NCD Alliance has co-signed an open letter to Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to voice our objections to Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of COP27.
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Afghanistan NCD Alliance joins global movement for World Heart Day and Breast Cancer Awareness month
Announcements | 04th November 2022
The Afghanistan NCD Alliance celebrate World Heart day during two events held in October to raise awareness around noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
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Climate change impacts on health growing more deadly, says the Lancet Countdown
Announcements | 31st October 2022
Inaction on climate change has major health costs. According to a new report, fossil fuels contributed to 1.3 million deaths from outdoor air pollution in 2020.
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Two steps back for the health of women and children in the face of conflict, climate change and COVID-19, report shows
Announcements | 25th October 2022
The health of women and children worldwide has been battered in the last two years, a period that has witnessed growing impacts of conflicts, climate change and the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, reveals the 2022 Every Woman Every Child Progress Report launched on 18 October.
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Launch of updated policy brief, ‘Acting on Stroke and NCDs’ ahead of World Stroke Day 2022
Announcements | 20th October 2022
Ahead of this World Stroke Day, as part of efforts to address the global and individual impact of stroke within the broader NCD response, the NCD Alliance, World Stroke Organization and American Stroke Association have published an update to their policy brief ‘Acting on stroke and noncommunicable diseases: Preventing and responding to stroke to work towards Universal Health Coverage’.
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A call to integrate chronic diseases in pandemic preparedness and response
Announcements | 18th October 2022
"NCDs must no longer be seen as an afterthought to pandemic preparedness and response – but as a fundamental component of resilience, equity, and economic stability. These two agendas need to be linked", Anne Lise Ryel, NCDA President.
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How can civil society organisations better identify, manage and prevent Conflict of Interest?
Announcements | 13th October 2022
NCD Alliance will produce a Conflict of Interest Toolkit exploring how civil society organisations working on NCDs can better identify, prevent and manage conflict of interest. Take the survey now!