World No Tobacco Day 2025: Bright Products. Dark Intentions.
30 May 2025
Guide
30 May 2025
An interactive guide with key steps on how to take legal action against the tobacco industry.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
28 May 2025
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), like diabetes, hypertension, cancers, and mental health conditions, are the leading cause of early deaths around the world. Every year, we pay the price of inaction: USD $2 trillion in lost productivity and health car...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
28 May 2025
The Fourth UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health (HLM4) presents a pivotal moment for countries to recommit and take action to better prevent and control NCDs and promote mental health, including by ensuring access to NCD medicines, product...
28 May 2025
On World No Tobacco Day (31 May, 2025) the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), supports the World Health Organization’s (WHO) efforts to expose and condemn the tobacco industry’s harmful tactics—many of which are aimed at young people.This year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) – themed ‘Unmasking the appeal: Exposing industry tactics on tobacco and nicotine products’ �...
28 May 2025
Briefs & Fact Sheets
28 May 2025
The World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA) and our network of 400 civil society and community organisations across more than 100 countries welcome the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration for the High-Level Meeting (HLM) on NCDs and Mental Health. WHA has...
28 May 2025
On Friday, 2 May 2025, World Obesity Federation volunteers and staff participated in the Interactive Multistakeholder Hearing at United Nations Headquarters in New York calling for action on obesity to be at the heart of the global noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) response.This hearing provided a crucial opportunity for World Obesity and its community to elevate the urgency of systemic action on obe...
28 May 2025
28 May 2025
On World No Tobacco Day (31 May, 2025) the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), supports the World Health Organization’s (WHO) efforts to expose and condemn the tobacco industry’s harmful tactics—many of which are aimed at young people.This year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) – themed ‘Unmasking the appeal: Exposing industry tactics on tobacco and nicotine products�...
28 May 2025
Publication
28 May 2025
Liver cancer is the third most common cause of cancer deaths worldwide, with the majority of liver cancer cases caused by viral hepatitis. The tools to eliminate hepatitis exist, with modelling finding that meeting the WHO hepatitis elimination targe...
28 May 2025
High-level Official Side Event Convened by Barbados, Norway, Spain, the NCD Alliance and United for Global Mental HealthMember States, civil society and public health experts convened on the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly to issue a call for action and to chart the path forward on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health. NCDs, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and c...
28 May 2025
Strategy document
27 May 2025
The World Heart Federation's response outlines the cardiovascular health community's comprehensive feedback and recommendations on the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health 2025.
27 May 2025
At the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly (WHA78), Member States acknowledged the independent mid-term evaluation of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (GCM/NCD) under agenda item 12. The mid-term evaluation was discussed alongside follow-up to the political declaration of the third High-Level Meeting of the United Nations General...
27 May 2025