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02 May 2025

United for Global Mental Health, Global Mental Health Action Network

Global Mental Health Action Network Statement for the United Nations Multistakeholder Hearing on NCDs, by Muskan Lamba

"My sincere greetings to everyone in this room!&nbsp;My name is Muskan Lamba, and I’m representing the Global Mental Health Action Network today as a youth representative. I come from Delhi, India, where summer temperatures are already approaching 50 degrees Celsius. This matters deeply to any conversation on NCDs and mental health, because heat stress is unjustly felt across low and middle inco...

02 May 2025

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JACC Journals

Feasibility of Postpartum Blood Pressure Monitoring for Hypertensive Disorders in a Low-Resource Setting

Article

01 May 2025

A study which assessed the feasibility of a postpartum home blood pressure-monitoring program for women with Hypertensive Disorder of Pregnancy (HDP) in a low-income setting.&nbsp;

ArticleCardiovascular DiseaseMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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01 May 2025

World Health Organization

Unheard, unseen, under-served: Placing lived experiences at the heart of palliative care reform 

Last week the NCD Department hosted a webinar "Unheard, unseen, under-served: Placing lived experiences at the heart of palliative care reform&nbsp;”&nbsp;The event highlight the importance of integrating palliative care as a core component of NCD management to improve quality of life and health outcomes, while recognizing the need to listen and incorporate the experiences of those with lived ex...

01 May 2025

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01 May 2025

World Health Organization

Core elements of a national palliative care policies and strategies

This session leveraged key partners to identify core elements and best practices to creating national palliative care policies, laws and national strategies through human centred design activities including discussion and prioritization exercises.&nbsp;Key ideas which were identified included by the group:Ensuring representation from legal, financial, and service delivery sectors, as well as from...

01 May 2025

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01 May 2025

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)

The Friendship Bench: Bridging Zimbabwe’s mental health treatment gap

Globally, millions of people are suffering with mental health conditions and have no access to evidence-based interventions. The Friendship Bench (FB) is a successful programme that was developed in Zimbabwe in 2006 to bridge this gap. FB uses a task-shifting approach to support those dealing with “kufungisisa”, a term locally understood as an equivalent of anxiety and depression. Community he...

01 May 2025

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World Health Organization

Plenary Presentations: Second General Meeting of the WHO GCM/NCD

25 Apr 2025

The Second General Meeting of the Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs (GCM/NCD) convened Member State representatives, civil society actors, lived experience advocates, and partners to put forward recommendations on accelerating multisectoral and m...

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World Heart Federation (WHF)

World Heart Observatory

Database

24 Apr 2025

The World Heart Federation aims to become the reference organization for information, knowledge, and policy in the global cardiovascular sphere.&nbsp;As part of our strategic objectives, we launched the World Heart Observatory: a knowledge hub that c...

DatabaseCardiovascular DiseaseHarmful use of alcoholHousehold and Outdoor Air PollutionPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+4

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Universidad de Navarra

APHN Atlas of palliative care in the Asia Pacific Regions 2025

Publication

24 Apr 2025

Palliative care (PC) is integral to universal health coverage (UHC) as it alleviates suffering and enhances the quality of life. However, its accessibility and integration into healthcare systems remain inconsistent globally. Evaluating PC developmen...

PublicationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsAccess to essential medicines and services+4

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The Lancet

Preconception malnutrition among women and girls in south Asia: prevalence, determinants, and association with pregnancy and birth outcomes

Article

24 Apr 2025

A review that highlights the growing double burden of malnutrition among women of reproductive age in South Asia, highlighting the need for tailored, context-specific interventions and more comprehensive, longitudinal studies to inform and monitor nu...

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Nature Reviews Nephrology

Kidney disease is a worldwide killer. Treat it that way

Article

24 Apr 2025

The Nature editorial urges World Health Assembly delegates, meeting on 19 May 2025, to back a resolution led by Guatemala that would recognize chronic kidney disease (CKD)—which affects an estimated 8.5 percent of the global population and is a rap...

ArticleMultisectoral ActionHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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Action on Smoking and Health

UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution Resources

Database

23 Apr 2025

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has correctly designated cigarette filters as a form of single-use plastic. The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) for the plastics treaty must consider a ban or strict regulation of all sing...

DatabaseCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsCivil Society Working GroupEnvironment, climate change and healthTobacco use+6

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Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Webinar Series

Database

23 Apr 2025

ASH began this webinar series as the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020 to fill an information gap that existed. We’ve continued the series to provide a platform for credible partners to share their timely research and resources.

DatabaseCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsCivil Society Working GroupSocial determinants of healthTobacco use+6

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