Declaration
02 May 2025
Statement for UN Multistakeholder Hearing – Panel 2 Delivered on behalf of HRIDAY, the Healthy India Alliance (India NCD Alliance), South-East Asia Regional NCD Alliance, and Global NCD AllianceWe, HRIDAY, the Healthy India Alliance (India NCD Alli...
Declaration
02 May 2025
NCDs are the leading cause of death and disability for women globally – accounting for nearly two-thirds of all female deaths, up to 19 million deaths every year. Around the world, girls and women living with or at risk of developing NCDs experienc...
Publication
02 May 2025
NCDs remain the leading global cause of death and disability. When it comes to NCDs, women and girls around the world are at even greater risk of either contracting some NCDs or in challenges accessing healthcare, particularly in low-resource context...
02 May 2025
On May 2nd, I had the profound honour of delivering a speech at the United Nations Multistakeholder Hearing on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health, in New York—part of the lead-up to the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs in September 2025 with the Global Mental Health Action Network United for Global Mental Health."Thank you chair, constituents and co-creators,Good after...
02 May 2025
02 May 2025
"My sincere greetings to everyone in this room! 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
01 May 2025
Last week the NCD Department hosted a webinar "Unheard, unseen, under-served: Placing lived experiences at the heart of palliative care reform ” 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
Zimbabwe
01 May 2025
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
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...
Database
24 Apr 2025
The World Heart Federation aims to become the reference organization for information, knowledge, and policy in the global cardiovascular sphere. As part of our strategic objectives, we launched the World Heart Observatory: a knowledge hub that c...
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...
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...
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...
