15 Nov 2020
With its population scattered across 83 islands, reaching everyone in Vanuatu who lives with a noncommunicable disease (NCD), such as diabetes, has been both a long-standing ambition and a logistical challenge. To help achieve this goal, WHO has worked with the Government of Vanuatu to introduce a package of interventions to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases through the primary health c...
15 Nov 2020
Article
14 Nov 2020
WHO is developing a global strategy towards eliminating cervical cancer as a public health problem, which proposes an elimination threshold of four cases per 100 000 women and includes 2030 triple-intervention coverage targets for scale-up of human...
Strategy document
14 Nov 2020
This global strategy to eliminate cervical cancer proposes: a vision of a world where cervical cancer is eliminated as a public health problem; a threshold of 4 per 100 000 women-years for elimination as a public health problem; the f...
29 Oct 2020
WHO and partners launch new guidance on designing digital health interventions with and for young people. Digital tools are an increasingly popular approach to improving health worldwide – particularly among adolescents and young people, who are accessing the internet at earlier stages of life. Youth-centred digital health interventions is a new framework developed by WHO, HRP, UNESCO,...
29 Oct 2020
26 Oct 2020
COVID-19 has highlighted how critical digital connectivity is to governments, businesses, and society, and has brought a newfound sense of urgency to the digital inclusion agenda. While the crisis has enabled hundreds of millions to participate onlin...
Report
26 Oct 2020
The COVID-19 Action Agenda recognizes the vital role of social entrepreneurs as operating on the frontline of the crisis and as an important actor in centering a reset of capitalism around the needs of the most vulnerable. Through our COVID Social En...
26 Oct 2020
WDF staff meet people with diabetes worldwide, and each has a story. Here, we introduce Eric Omondi, a young Kenyan with type 1 diabetes. As a kid, Eric had a reputation as ‘the bright one’ in Sirembe, a village in Southwestern Kenya. He was the third-born of seven siblings: curious, earnest and good in school. But in sixth grade he started feeling ill. The symptoms resembled malaria, so...
26 Oct 2020
26 Oct 2020
In 2016, the Armenian EyeCare Project approached WDF with an ambitious plan for improving diabetes retinopathy (DR) screening and care across their mountainous, landlocked country in the South Caucasus. At the time, the Armenian Ministry of Health was implementing a strategy to prevent diabetes and improve care, but it did not address eye care. The Armenian EyeCare Project (AECP) had coll...
26 Oct 2020
26 Oct 2020
VicHealth is calling for government regulation to protect students from unhealthy food marketing around schools after a new voluntary industry led code was announced yesterday. Read more here.
26 Oct 2020
26 Oct 2020
AFL and AFLW players are joining the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) in urging Victorians to help curb the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and take care of their mental and physical health through a new video series. Reed more here.
26 Oct 2020
26 Oct 2020
Health promotion foundation VicHealth is teaming up with Proud 2 Play and South West Sport to increase inclusion of LGBTI+ people and tackle discrimination and vilification in community sport. Read more here.
26 Oct 2020
26 Oct 2020
VicHealth has today announced $340,000 in funding for five projects which support Victorians from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to continue to improve their social and emotional wellbeing. Read more here.
26 Oct 2020
