World Health Organization
Breast cancer
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Oct 2023
Key facts Breast cancer caused 685 000 deaths globally in 2020. Roughly half of all breast cancers occur in w...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Oct 2023
Key facts Breast cancer caused 685 000 deaths globally in 2020. Roughly half of all breast cancers occur in w...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Oct 2023
Key facts Asthma is a major noncommunicable disease (NCD), affecting both children and adults, and is the most common ch...
Article
05 Oct 2023
Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are increasing among people living with HIV (PLHIV), especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We deter...
Publication
05 Oct 2023
Previous Global Ministerial Mental Health Summits (London, Amsterdam, Paris and Rome, in chronological order) have played a crucial role in fostering interna...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
27 Sep 2023
Key facts Anxiety disorders are the world’s most common mental disorders, affecting 301 million people in 2019. ...
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 even...
Publication
22 Sep 2023
Purpose The SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic has left a massive global death toll in its wake. Associated restriction...
Article
22 Sep 2023
On the eve of the United Nations high-level meeting on universal health coverage (UHC), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) have published...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
20 Sep 2023
On the occasion of the second annual Gathering of the Global Group of Heads of State and Government for the prevention and control of Noncommunicable Disease...
Publication
19 Sep 2023
WHO has developed the Noncommunicable disease facility-based monitoring guidance for NCD patient and programme monitoring, including a framework and parsimo...
Report
19 Sep 2023
To assess national-level responses to NCDs, WHO has implemented NCD country capacity surveys periodically since 2001. This report is the latest in that serie...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
16 Sep 2023
Key facts Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) kill 41 million people each year, equivalent to 74% of all deaths globally. Each yea...