Women & NCDs - A Call to Action: Girls Under Five years

Published	08th March 2017
Author	NCD Alliance
Download	Document (77.05kB)

Description

This pocket card explores how increased risks of developing common NCDs – begin as early as gestation. A girl’s development from the womb through early childhood provides a critical opportunity to establish a strong foundation for lifelong health.

women, gestational diabetes

Related Resources

Women & NCDs - A Call to Action: Beyond Reproductive Years

This pocket card explores how adults over 60 comprise the fastest growing age group today, yet health data for this demographic are rarely available.

women
Women & NCDs - A Call to Action: Girls and Adolescents (71.51kB)

This pocket card explores how half of all NCDs that present in adulthood – begin early in life, and many behaviours that underlie common NCDs start during adolescence. Children and adolescents living with NCDs or caring for family members with these conditions often reach lower levels of educational attainment and have poorer access to employment opportunities than those without these responsibilities. To maximise adolescents’ and girls’ opportunities, the NCD epidemic must be addressed.
Women & NCDs - A Call to Action: Reproductive Years (71.86kB)

This pocket card explores how together, common NCDs are the leading causes of death and disability among women of reproductive age and contribute significantly to maternal death and disability. Active screening, diagnosis, and management of common NCDs during a woman’s reproductive years are critical for her health and that of her children.

Tag Feed: women

International Women's Day 2024: Re-imagining NCD care for and by women

05th March 2024

On International Women's Day, NCD advocates reflect on the many gender-based challenges related to NCDs, shedding light on the importance for governments to apply a gender lens to UHC.
Civil society and government join forces to accelerate cancer care for women in Rwanda

17th August 2023

Rwanda - a regional leader in Universal Health Coverage - is helping women to detect and treat breast and cervical cancer earlier as part of government and civil society partnership to lower rates of undetected cancer.
Bridging the cancer care gap for women in Rwanda

09th May 2023

A Rwanda NCD Alliance initiative in close collaboration with public health sector saves lives by reaching out to women living with breast and cervical cancers earlier and better.
Women caregivers: alone and overburdened

18th April 2023

Women do not want to continue caring alone in a system that does not recognise them. New blog from Analía Lorenzo calls to integrate women caregivers into the Human Rights and UHC agendas.
Human rights law: an overlooked tool to address the burden of NCDs on women

06th March 2023

Women experience many gender-based challenges in accessing healthcare - especially in low-resource contexts - but there is one advocacy approach that can tackle them all: human rights.