NCD Alliance

We are pleased to announce the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA) as the third global partner to join the NCD Alliance Steering Group.

The British Medical Association has voted to outlaw smoking in the UK, initially to anyone born after the year 2000.

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Image: A group of children with cigarettes in Jakarta, Indonesia. © 2013 Sarah V. Harlan/JHU•CCP, Courtesy of Photoshare

Registrations for 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health  from 28th October - 1st November in Barcelona, Spain, are now open

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This week's three-day East African meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) has drawn a charter calling for global action to inform the fight against chronic diseases.

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In 2011, $7.7 billion was allocated to HIV/AIDS projects, while malaria, TB, and maternal, newborn and child health received $1.8 billion, $1.3 billion, and $6.1 billion respectively. NCDs received only 1.5% of all health aid. Sam Byfield explores the resons for these disparities in funding.

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The Healthy Caribeban Coalition has published its fifth annual report, for the year 2013.

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Action on Sugar have released data highlighting both the astonishingly high sugar content, and the variation in sugars, between different sugar-sweetened carbonated soft drinks available in the UK, and are calling for sugar reduction targets to be set by the Department of Health.

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The Uganda NCD Alliance has asked the government to make testing for NCDs mandatory for every Ugandan. 

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The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association, American Lung Association and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids have praised the Government’s plan to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes, and criticised US business interests for challenging ‘Ireland’s life-saving policy’.

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Lack of access to pain relief for dying patients is a public health emergency. It is estimated that almost 18 million people died in unnecessary pain in 2012, mainly in developing countries.

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