NCD Alliance

November 14 is World Diabetes Day (WDD). Led by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the day unites the global diabetes community to produce a powerful voice for diabetes awareness and advocacy.

Healthy Living and Diabetes is the World Diabetes Day theme for 2014-2016. This year’s activities and materials focus on the importance of starting the day with a healthy breakfast.

The NCD Alliance has joined 200+ organizations around the world to launch the first-ever Universal Health Coverage Day on 12 December 2014.

This historic coalition will mark the anniversary of a landmark UN resolution urging all countries to provide universal access to health care without financial hardship.

No one should fall into poverty because they get sick and need health care. Universal health coverage is essential for making progress on NCDs – and for creating a fairer, more resilient society.

As the world’s population reaches the 7 billion mark, we know that the 7th billion infant just born is more likely to die from a non-communicable disease than any other illness. NCDs — including cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes — cause more deaths than all other diseases combined; an estimated 36 million every year in total. And they strike hardest at the world’s low- and middle-income populations.

The 6th session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) took place in Moscow, 13-18 October.

During the meeting, key decisions relating to NCDs were made. Among these, the adoption of guidelines on price and tax measures (Article 6) is particularly significant.

World Diabetes Day takes place on 14 November. This year, the International Diabetes Federation is underlining the importance of simple, cost effective interventions such as healthy breakfasts, to lessen the global burden of diabetes, and save billions in lost productivity and healthcare costs.

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At last week’s 45th World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona, Spain, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and World Diabetes Foundation jointly issued a call to action against a global co-epidemic of diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis.

As part of the NCD Alliance Program ‘Strengthening Health Systems, Supporting NCD Action’, ACT+ (Alliance for Tobacco Control + Health) is holding today a Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) meeting at PAHO headquarters in Brasilia.

The democratization of access to care is a key part of discussions relating to tobacco control and NCDs. This meeting will focus on how to guarantee equitable quality public health within a universal health access framework.  The meeting will include 4 discussion panels:

The Global Asthma Report 2014 is published by the Global Asthma Network and includes strategic and practical recommendations and valuable information for governments, health organisations, health professionals, and people with asthma,

The 64th Regional Committee Meeting for the WHO AFRO Region begins today in Cotonou, Republic of Benin. NCDs feature in the Report of the work of WHO in the African Region, and engagement with non state actors will be discussed under a standalone agenda item. A statement will be delivered on behalf of NCDA.

The  International Diabetes Federation (IDF) launched today the World Diabetes Campaign. Get "Off to the right start" shows why having a healthy breakfast is a powerful way to address diabetes.