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Our right to health, our right to clean air: Improving air quality to address NCDs
Policy Briefs| 21st May 2019This policy brief explores the impact of air pollution on health and address the air quality issue in the response to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). It also provides key actions that policy makers, NGOs and health professionals can take to ensure that every one can breathe clean air.
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Brazil launches Civil Society NCD Status Report
Other| 13th May 2019ACT Health Promotion launched the Civil Society NCD Status Report for Brazil on April 9th at the 4th Intersectorial Forum on the Fight Against NCDs organised by the Public Health Institute. The report was supported through NCD Alliance’s NCD Advocacy Institute Accelerator Programme and is intended to stimulate government and relevant stakeholder action on NCDs.
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NCDA Advocacy Priorities for the 2019 UN HLM on UHC
Policy Briefs| 29th April 2019This briefing paper aims to inform Member States about the crucial opportunity of the 2019 UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC HLM) and the need to ensure that the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is included as an element of UHC in the outcome document of the UN HLM. These priorities complement the asks outlined by UHC2030.
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Trans Fat Free by 2023 Report
NCD Background Information| 25th April 2019This report presents case studies of six countries in different regions of the world that have enacted policies to eliminate industrially-produced trans fatty acids/trans fat (TFA) from their food supply. The purpose of this report is to provide civil society organizations (CSOs) and policy-makers around the world with examples of successful strategies for enacting and implementing TFA policies. The report also provides best practices, lessons learned, and recommendations based on the experience of policy-makers, advocates, and researchers involved in such efforts.
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Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs in Mexico
National & Regional Action| 19th March 2019This Advocacy Agenda of PLWNCDs in Mexico is the result of broad consultative processes during 2017 and 2018 involving dozens of people living with NCDs in Mexico City, representing diverse conditions, along with multiple stakeholders engaged in the NCD response in the country.
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New Data-driven Map of the MENA Region Shows Urgent Need for Action on Cervical Cancer
National & Regional Action(292.66kB) | 18th March 2019Tunis, 4 March 2019 - A new interactive map launched today, on International HPV Awareness Day, shows the growing burden of HPV and cervical cancer in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
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The Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs in Kenya
Advocacy Materials| 05th December 2018The Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs in Kenya is the result of a two-day consultative process involving the voices of 52 people living with NCDs, representing diverse conditions along with over 50 diverse stakeholders engaged in the NCD response in Kenya.
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A breath of fresh air
Policy Briefs| 29th October 2018Air pollution is the world’s largest single environmental health risk, and a leading risk factor for NCDs. According to the WHO, air pollution causes 7 million deaths every year worldwide. Of these deaths, about 80% are from NCDs, making the number of NCD deaths due to air pollution comparable to mortality due to tobacco use. Air pollution negatively affects quality of life for all, and in particular for billions of people living with NCDs.