"...The continued global economic crisis means that increased external financing from traditional donors is unlikely in the near term. Hence, new funding has to be sought from innovative financing sources to sustain the gains made in global health, to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals, and to address the emerging burden from non-communicable diseases...."
Rifat Atun , Felicia Marie Knaul, Yoko Akachi, Julio Frenk
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 24 October 2012
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61460-3C
“,,,,Monitoring inequalities in noncommunicable disease risk factor prevalence can help to inform and target effective interventions. The prevalence of current daily smoking, low fruit and vegetable consumption, physical inactivity, and heavy episodic alcohol drinking were quantified and compared across wealth and education levels in low- and middle-income country groups."
North Africa program “Smoke-free at Work” initiative On World No Tobacco Day, hundreds of youth from Tunisia and Algeria gathered at one of the many community activism events organized by a handful of Youth Advocacy Leaders, as part of the “Smoke-free at Work” Initiative (or “Travaillons Sans Fumée”, its name in French), to raise awareness around the dangers of secondhand smoke in the workplace.
Submitted by lontrog@gmail.com on 10 April, 2025 - 14:59
Each member organisation can have up to three delegates joining the virtual General Assembly meeting on Tuesday 6 May 2025 (13h00 to 15h00 CEST) but only one nominated person to vote.
Registrations are now open for the multistakeholder hearing on 2 May 2025, preceding the High-Level Meeting of the UN on NCDs and mental health to take place on 25 September 2025.
