Declaration
28 Feb 2025
The Kigali Youth Declaration, co-created by young people in the global NCD community, highlights the urgency of addressing youth concerns and taking action against NCDs, including mental health.We, the young people of the global NCD community—...
25 Feb 2025
Grassroots innovations have the potential to accelerate NCD prevention and control efforts by leveraging community perspectives and strengthen ownership of health interventions. However, identifying, supporting and scaling small innovations through national public health systems often remain a challenge. Many countries are missing the necessary policies, operational frameworks and capacity to asse...
25 Feb 2025
19 Feb 2025
Excessive salt intake is the leading dietary risk factor for premature death and disability in China. Strategies such as setting maximum sodium targets and front-of-package labelling have proven effective in reducing salt intake, but these approaches are mainly suitable for pre-packaged food products. Although discretionary salt use during cooking or at the table remains the major source of dietar...
19 Feb 2025
Strategy document
06 Feb 2025
The 4th UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs in 2025 is a key moment for Heads of State and Government, civil society, academia, philanthropies, and relevant private sector to come together to review progress and commit to accelerated action for the next ph...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
21 Jan 2025
A briefing paper by the NCD Alliance highlighting barriers and opportunities for improving access to essential medicines and technologies for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It outlines key challenges such as availability, affordability, and equita...
21 Jan 2025
Hundreds of millions with NCDs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are dying prematurely or suffering life threatening complications because they cannot access affordable and essential NCD medicines and technologies. Many of these lifesaving...
Article
17 Dec 2024
In this episode, we’re looking ahead to UHC Day, on 12 December. The 2024 theme is Health: it’s on the government! UHC of course stands for Universal Health Coverage, and today we’re talking about financing for UHC and its relationship to...
Report
09 Dec 2024
Building on the successes and lessons from previous years, we have been able to achieve the greatest level of engagement in the history of the Global Week for Action on NCDs Campaign. Thanks to you and hundreds of thousands from the NCD community we...
Article
27 Nov 2024
In this episode we’re talking about oral health and noncommunicable diseases, or NCDs, with Dr Greg Chadwick, President of FDI World Dental Federation, and Dr Dympna Kavanagh, Chief Dental Officer for the Republic of Ireland. What they both stress...
Austria
13 Nov 2024
In this episode we’re talking about oral health and noncommunicable diseases, or NCDs, with Dr Greg Chadwick, President of FDI World Dental Federation, and Dr Dympna Kavanagh, Chief Dental Officer for the Republic of Ireland. What they both stress in today’s chat is how the adoption in 2021 of a World Health Assembly resolution flipped the way that most people thought of oral health—primaril...
13 Nov 2024
Article
31 Oct 2024
We often hear that mental health is neglected in part because of the stubborn stigma associated with living with a mental health condition in many — if not most — parts of the world. In an attempt to spotlight this neglected topic, in this episod...
28 Oct 2024
Ahead of next year’s Fourth High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the prevention and control of NCDs, and the Second General Meeting of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs (GCM/NCD) in April 2025, preparations to develop technical resources and advocacy materials with GCM Participants and strategic partners are in full-swing. [[8736]]Through its...
28 Oct 2024
