Article
27 May 2024
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) arise from diverse risk factors with differences in the contexts and variabilities in regions and countries. Addressing such a complex challenge requires local evidence. Tanzania has been convening stakeholders every...
Article
08 May 2024
Non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes have emerged as serious health crises in developing countries, as HIV was a decade ago. New models of primary health care that combine NCD and HIV care are catching on – and Tanzania is imple...
United Republic of Tanzania
08 May 2024
Community sensitization, mobilization and early diagnosis is saving lives of non-communicable disease refugee patients specifically diabetes in Tanzania.
08 May 2024
Jordan
08 May 2024
Jordan’s government and civil society are stepping up action to strengthen NCD prevention and care, working together as part of their commitment to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to reduce the NCD burden among both refugees and vulnerable Jordanians.
08 May 2024
08 May 2024
How can a decade of projects bringing health to rural communities in Georgia continue to make a difference today? WDF went there to find out. This autumn, WDF's Board of Directors had this chance to experience the progress made by the six projects supported by our Foundation in Georgia. For more than a decade, these projects have been serving rural and socially vulnerab...
08 May 2024
08 May 2024
World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) and Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) have signed a seven-year Partnership Framework Agreement (2024-2030), granting 260 million DKK to WDF to accelerate prevention and care for diabetes and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The partnership is guided by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal targe...
08 May 2024
08 May 2024
An estimated 1 in 8 of adults among Tanzania’s 64 million population are living with diabetes. More than half of those are undiagnosed. A 2017 external evaluation of WDF-supported projects in Tanzania concluded that, on average, there were 526 more diabetes patients and 1,224 more hypertension patients under treatment per district per month in districts where WDF programmes were implemented...
08 May 2024
08 May 2024
Since 2002, WDF has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the need to address hyperglycaemia in pregnancy. Through this push, attention to the disease area has increased, but unfortunately GDM remains underprioritised in global health interventions. WDF's first project on GDM was with Dr V. Seshiah Diabetes Care and Research Institute, where the partner managed to screen 11,000 women in Ind...
08 May 2024
06 Dec 2023
Mira, a tenacious and energetic 67-year-old woman from Alamedin district near Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, has been living with diabetes since 1985. Her story is one of resilience and community, and conviction that living a healthy life is possible. As an active member of a local support group, she is a passionate advocate for the effectiveness of these groups in helping people manage their con...
06 Dec 2023
14 Nov 2023
Partners in Kenya celebrate World Diabetes Day by scaling up the national NCD response with the largest grant ever provided by WDF, getting closer to achieving universal health coverage. This World Diabetes Day, WDF highlights how patience, resilience and partnership can unify decades-long efforts into strong and sustainable national responses to NCDs. On 14 November, the Minist...
14 Nov 2023
08 Oct 2023
By the end of this year, a diabetes screening tool that will enable community workers to easily screen people is ready to be launched in the two partner countries Sri Lanka and Tanzania. To make sure that the new tool is adapted to the communities' needs and cultural practices, and that it will empower them to improve their health through screening and prevention, the Digital Health t...
08 Oct 2023
Report
23 Sep 2023
On 19 September 2023, a high-level roundtable titled "Integrating Health Financing to Achieve UHC and NCD SDG Targets" took place, serving as a parallel event to the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly. Hosted by Access Accelerated, NCD Alliance,...
