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Meeting local needs, contextualizing interventions, and scaling effective programmes across regions and countries: Read how Member States and partners leverage multisectoral collaboration and engage stakeholders to co-designand scale evidence-informed and effective NCD prevention and control.

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Zimbabwean men unite to advocate for diabetes care

World Diabetes Foundation, SolidarMed

Zimbabwean men unite to advocate for diabetes care

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Zimbabwe

30 Oct 2024
Cambodia’s sprouts of change: healthier futures through safer child nutrition in schools

World Diabetes Foundation, Helen Keller International

Cambodia’s sprouts of change: healthier futures through safer child nutrition in schools

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Country Stories

28 Oct 2024
Heroes of remote Nepal: Women leading the way to healthier communities

World Diabetes Foundation

Heroes of remote Nepal: Women leading the way to healthier communities

Women in Nepal have become promising agents of change, improving control of type 2 diabetes and social trust. Now, a scale-up to rural areas is exp..

Nepal

25 Oct 2024
Breaking barriers: Liberia’s journey from modest diabetes clinic to national NCD response

World Diabetes Foundation

Breaking barriers: Liberia’s journey from modest diabetes clinic to national NCD response

A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing. This Liberian proverb seems to embody the progress i..

Liberia

24 Oct 2024
Stakeholder dissemination workshop: Beliefs surrounding the use of inhaled asthma medication in The Gambia.

NIHR, IPCRG, Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (LSHTM), WHO

Stakeholder dissemination workshop: Beliefs surrounding the use of inhaled asthma medication in The Gambia.

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG), Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia a..

Gambia

21 Oct 2024
Raise Your Voice: Global Action Week On NCDs

NCD Alliance

Raise Your Voice: Global Action Week On NCDs

"When I speak, I shake the walls," says Chikhu, a person living with a chronic disease. In Malawi, access to NCD care is not always there and is no..

Malawi

21 Oct 2024
Going Full Circle: Global Week For Action On NCDs

NCD Alliance

Going Full Circle: Global Week For Action On NCDs

Going Full Circle NCD Alliance travels to India to meet Nupur and Snehal, two women living with type 1 diabetes. Their stories vividly de..

India

21 Oct 2024
Education and access: the key to transforming leukaemia treatment in the Philippines

Medicines Patent Pool

Education and access: the key to transforming leukaemia treatment in the Philippines

World CML Day: A Story of Hope and Advocacy  Despite years of progress, much still needs to be done on access to treatment for ..

Philippines

07 Oct 2024
Malta ‘nurse navigators’ embody patient-centred care

World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe.

Malta ‘nurse navigators’ embody patient-centred care

Malta has successfully introduced innovative nurse navigators to its cancer care services, which brings a personalized, integrated approach to ca..

Malta

15 Sep 2022
“When you need help, people will come”

WHO Regional Office for Europe

“When you need help, people will come”

Dr Iryna Vlasenko is a Ukrainian pharmacist and Vice President of the International Diabetes Federation. She lives with type 1 diabetes.  ..

Ukraine

27 Aug 2024
Strengthening Minds: Malaysia Strengthens Efforts to Enhance the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents

WHO Regional Office for Western Pacific

Strengthening Minds: Malaysia Strengthens Efforts to Enhance the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the mental health crisis among children and adolescents has become more pronounced globally. In Malaysia, the..

Malaysia

20 Sep 2024
Enhancing HPV vaccination

WHO Regional Office for Africa

Enhancing HPV vaccination

Maseru – “It was a no-brainer,” says 34-year-old ‘Malihaelo Qhobela of her decision to allow her 13-year-old daughter, Lihaelo,..

Lesotho

19 Aug 2024
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