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FIRS Hails World Health Assembly Resolution as Turning Point for Lung Health
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02 Jun 2025

Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS)

FIRS Hails World Health Assembly Resolution as Turning Point for Lung Health

The Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) applauds the World Health Assembly’s (WHA) adoption of the Integrated Lung Health Resolution, a critical step towards integrating lung health into universal health coverage, and closing the gaps that cost millions of lives each year.Representing the world’s leading professional respiratory societies, FIRS commends the WHA for formally rec...

02 Jun 2025



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ForumCCNTs' and partners' response to Zero Draft of the Political Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health 2025 
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30 May 2025

Associacao de Diabetes Juvenil

ForumCCNTs' and partners' response to Zero Draft of the Political Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health 2025

The Intersectoral Forum of Noncommunicable Conditions in Brazil (FórumCCNTs), in partnership with specialists and representatives from various partner institutions who jointly signed the document, submitted a technical letter to the Minister of Health, Dr. Alexandre Padilha. The letter requests that Brazil propose the inclusion of three strategic themes currently absent from the Zero Draft of the...

30 May 2025



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UnitedGMH’s letter on the development of the HLM NCDs and Mental Health Political Declaration
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30 May 2025

United for Global Mental Health

UnitedGMH’s letter on the development of the HLM NCDs and Mental Health Political Declaration

As governments worldwide begin to discuss the Political Declaration (PD) for the UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on NCDs and Mental Health, it's a pivotal moment.This global moment will offer a unique chance to shape global health commitments to progress towards quality mental health support for all.Today we are releasing a document that entails some crucial thoughts and considerations for governments...

30 May 2025



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WHA78 - A Milestone for Global Mental Health Advocacy
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30 May 2025

Global Mental Health Action Network, United for Global Mental Health

WHA78 - A Milestone for Global Mental Health Advocacy

The Global Mental Health Action Network’s (GMHAN) presence at the World Health Assembly (WHA78) was about more than just hosting and participating in events, it was our strategy in practice. Our activities and engagements are an example of the change we hope to see in the mental health and broader health sectors, with community voices and experts by experience meaningfully included in shaping gl...

30 May 2025



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Stop tobacco industry tactics targeting young people, say international lung health expert
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28 May 2025

Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS)

Stop tobacco industry tactics targeting young people, say international lung health expert

On World No Tobacco Day (31 May, 2025) the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), supports the World Health Organization’s (WHO) efforts to expose and condemn the tobacco industry’s harmful tactics—many of which are aimed at young people.This year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) – themed ‘Unmasking the appeal: Exposing industry tactics on tobacco and nicotine products’ �...

28 May 2025



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World Obesity at the United Nations Multistakeholder Hearing on NCDs
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28 May 2025

World Obesity at the United Nations Multistakeholder Hearing on NCDs

On Friday, 2 May 2025, World Obesity Federation volunteers and staff participated in the Interactive Multistakeholder Hearing at United Nations Headquarters in New York calling for action on obesity to be at the heart of the global noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) response.This hearing provided a crucial opportunity for World Obesity and its community to elevate the urgency of systemic action on obe...

28 May 2025



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Stop tobacco industry tactics targeting young people, say international lung health experts
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28 May 2025

Forum of International Respiratory Societies

Stop tobacco industry tactics targeting young people, say international lung health experts

On World No Tobacco Day (31 May, 2025) the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), supports the World Health Organization’s (WHO) efforts to expose and condemn the tobacco industry’s harmful tactics—many of which are aimed at young people.This year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) –&nbsp;themed ‘Unmasking the appeal: Exposing industry tactics on tobacco and nicotine products�...

28 May 2025



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Setting the Stage for September: Global Health Leaders Build Momentum Ahead of UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health
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28 May 2025

World Health Organization

Setting the Stage for September: Global Health Leaders Build Momentum Ahead of UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health

High-level Official Side Event Convened by Barbados, Norway, Spain, the NCD Alliance and United for Global Mental HealthMember States, civil society and public health experts convened on the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly to issue a call for action and to chart the path forward on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health. NCDs, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and c...

28 May 2025



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WHA78: Member States highlight the crucial role of the GCM/NCD in driving multisectoral and multistakeholder action on NCDs
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27 May 2025

World Health Organization

WHA78: Member States highlight the crucial role of the GCM/NCD in driving multisectoral and multistakeholder action on NCDs

At the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly (WHA78), Member States acknowledged the independent mid-term evaluation of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (GCM/NCD) under&nbsp;agenda item 12. The mid-term evaluation was discussed alongside follow-up to the political declaration of the third High-Level Meeting of the United Nations General...

27 May 2025



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Ensuring the voices of mental health civil society are truly represented and heard
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27 May 2025

United for Global Mental Health

Ensuring the voices of mental health civil society are truly represented and heard

Traditionally, the global health sector has been dominated by large civil society organisations (CSOs) based in high-income countries speaking on behalf of everyone else. Mental health has too often been left behind.UnitedGMH has always sought to do things differently: we want CSOs from Low-Middle Income Countries and particularly People with Lived Experience to be heard directly.As secretariat fo...

27 May 2025



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Lived experience insights: Shifting power dynamics for a meaningful say in people’s health
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27 May 2025

Joab Wako

Lived experience insights: Shifting power dynamics for a meaningful say in people’s health

About this SeriesThis article is part of the Lived Experience Perspectives Series, which features firsthand accounts from individuals living with noncommunicable diseases, mental health, or neurological conditions. Each piece highlights one of the key advocacy messages from the WHO Symposium on the Meaningful Engagement of People Living with NCDs, Mental Health, and Neurological Conditions, contri...

27 May 2025



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United for Global Mental Health and the 78th World Health Assembly
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25 May 2025

United for Global Mental Health

United for Global Mental Health and the 78th World Health Assembly

by Sarah Kline.&nbsp;What a week! The World Health Assembly (WHA) gathers health ministers and the health community from around the world. Mental health is firmly on the global and national agenda, and we have left Geneva feeling optimistic and energised.&nbsp;Mental health had the highest profile at a WHA that we’ve ever seen, and for all the right reasons:Numerous governments committed to actO...

25 May 2025