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.
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.
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.
The second edition of the Global NCD Alliance Forum, the most important event convening CSOs working on the prevention and control of NCDs worldwide, will take place in one year, from 9 to 11 December 2017 in Sharjah, UAE.
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For UHC day on 12th December, Catharine Taylor, of MSH & the NCDA Steering Group, reflects on the need to act with ambition and cooperation to strengthen health systems to achieve UHC goals.
Over 60 representatives of European civil society organisations will meet in Brussels next week to follow-up on the adoption of the 2016-2025 WHO European action plan for the prevention and control of NCDs.
NCDs share common risk factors and challenges in care, and can be effectively addressed through an integrated response. In the first policy brief of a new series, NCDA and IOF focus on reasons for increased prevalence of osteoporosis in people living with other NCDs.
New position statement on the importance of physical activity for global health, the prevention of NCDs and how the co benefits of population based actions on physical activity can contribute to achieving eight SDGs.
Vital Strategies hailed the decision by Michael Bloomberg to pledge $360 million to fighting the global tobacco epidemic. This is an extraordinary contribution to combat the primary cause of preventable illness and premature death, of our time.
3rd December marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD). WHO is joining with other United Nations agencies and civil society organisations to celebrate "a day for all".