WHO African Regional Office
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Declaration
21 Aug 2024
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Publication
19 Aug 2024
This paper focuses on expanding access to biotherapeutics in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) through public health non-exclusive voluntary intellectual property licensing.The key elements identified as relevant to support access to affordabl...
Publication
18 Jul 2024
Responding to the increasing burden of diabetes around the world, the World Health Organization has launched the Global Diabetes Compact. The launch coincides with the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin. The WHO Global Diabetes Compact...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
18 Jul 2024
This brief provides practical information on planning for the introduction and scaling-up of integrated tuberculosis and diabetes services.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
18 Jul 2024
This technical brief evaluates the existing evidence regarding the thermostability of insulin and how this knowledge could be leveraged by pharmaceutical companies and health authorities.
Fact sheet
09 Jul 2024
This document is the seventh in a series of Tobacco Knowledge Summaries. This document is prepared with the objective to summarize the current evidence on the association between tobacco use and diabetes. This is also intended as an advocacy too...
Article
30 May 2024
At the sidelines of the 77th World Health Assembly, FIND and the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) held a side event on opportunities and barriers for integrating care for diabetes and tuberculosis (TB). Speakers engaged in dynamic dialogue across open...
Article
27 May 2024
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) arise from diverse risk factors with differences in the contexts and variabilities in regions and countries. Addressing such a complex challenge requires local evidence. Tanzania has been convening stakeholders every...
Database
23 May 2024
Tobacco companies spend millions of dollars lobbying in the U.S. every year in an attempt to weaken, delay or kill life-saving public health policies. ASH began tracking tobacco industry lobbyists and lobbying firm registrations in 2021, amidst...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
23 May 2024
Tobacco Endgame Guides, Talking Points, and Fact Sheets
19 May 2024
Increasing access to treatment for people with diabetes. The MSF Access Campaign is working to improve access to treatment for people living with diabetes, by advocating for:Increased competition in the insulin marketReduced cost of the dia...
Article
08 May 2024
Non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes have emerged as serious health crises in developing countries, as HIV was a decade ago. New models of primary health care that combine NCD and HIV care are catching on – and Tanzania is imple...