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Join NCDA celebrating awareness days in October
Announcements | 01st October 2019
From stroke to breast cancer, many dates in October mark health-related World Days uniting the global health community in raising awareness on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
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Fueling an Unhealthy Future: Governments Urged to Redirect Subsidies from Health Harming Industries
Announcements | 26th September 2019
A new brief released today on the sidelines of the 2019 UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit and the High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development challenges governments to reexamine current economic incentives to industries that harm health including fossil fuels, alcohol, and tobacco.
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Optimising the health workforce to combat NCDs and achieve UHC
Announcements | 24th September 2019
New, evidence-based policy report to enable an optimised health workforce launched by the NCD Alliance today, on the sidelines of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage in New York. -
Governments should fight air pollution from fossil fuels like they fight tobacco: new report
Press Releases | 19th September 2019
A new report launched today challenges political leaders to tackle fossil fuel production and consumption as a health control issue, in the same way that smoking has been reduced and regulated.
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Scaling up action on NCDs in the South-East Asia region
Announcements | 17th September 2019
The Healthy India Alliance called on WHO South-East Asia Member States at the Regional Committee to scale up action on NCDs in the region.
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NCDA members awarded for their outstanding contribution to NCD prevention and control
Announcements | 16th September 2019
The Healthy Caribbean Coalition and the Mexico Salud-Hable Coalition are two of the civil society recipients of the UN Interagency Task Force on NCDs Awards 2019.
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Snapshot of a global week of activities and voices calling for action on NCDs
World Days | 10th September 2019
The second Global Week for Action on NCDs reached millions of people, thanks to thousands of people in around 100 countries engaging in communities and online activities. -
Common health systems challenges call for joint solutions
Announcements | 10th September 2019
The NCD Café at the ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology provided an opportunity for cardiologists and health experts to discuss current challenges affecting health systems, in light of the imminent UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage on 23 September.