Publication
30 Sep 2020
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, tend to be of long duration and are the result of a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioural factors. The main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (CVD...
29 Sep 2020
Over a four-day workshop that ended on 25 September 2020, WHO and key international health partners mapped out a plan to boost access to affordable and quality-assured testing and treatment for diabetes. Read more here.
29 Sep 2020
Publication
29 Sep 2020
The George Institute undertook a systematic analysis of global COVID-19 related registered clinical trials by mapping how they relate to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Our analysis outlines the current challenges, and provides recommendations about...
Publication
19 Sep 2020
Key reference on the burden of atopic dermatitis, containing evidence that supports the efforts of the Global Atopic Dermatitis Atlas (GADA). Authored by M.R. Laughter (University of Colorado, USA), M.B.C. Maymone (University of Colorado, USA) et al....
Guide
19 Sep 2020
This resource package provides health workers with guidance to facilitate the delivery of quality NCD care in humanitarian crisis situations. When national guidance is not available, PEN-H may be adapted to suit national contexts. The package could a...
18 Sep 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on health-harming industry tactics and partnerships with governments, CSOs and UN agencies and other stakeholders that challenge coherence in NCD policies and actions due to conflict of interest and potential for undue influence in policy development and implementation.
18 Sep 2020
Report
15 Sep 2020
Signalling Virtue, Promoting Harm: Unhealthy commodity industries and COVID-19, authored by the NCD Alliance and the SPECTRUM Consortium, is a preliminary exposé and analysis of tactics and strategies adopted by the unhealthy commodity industries du...
Report
10 Sep 2020
In May 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for the global elimination of industrially produced TFA by 2023 and released the REPLACE action framework. The framework is a roadmap for countries to implement the prompt, complete and sustaine...
10 Sep 2020
Two years into the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ambitious effort to eliminate industrially produced trans fats from the global food supply, the Organization reports that 58 countries so far have introduced laws that will protect 3.2 billion people from the harmful substance by the end of 2021. But more than 100 countries still need to take actions to remove these harmful substances from the...
10 Sep 2020
Report
08 Sep 2020
Responding to NCDs during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic describes why strong action on NCDs must be an integral part of the COVID-19 response, recovery and building back better and steps that should be taken immediately and in the longer term...
Report
08 Sep 2020
This report presents the results of a rapid assessment conducted by the NCD Department in May 2020 detailing the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on NCD resources and services.
Report
08 Sep 2020
The Pulse survey on continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic aimed to gain initial insight from country key informants into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on essential health services across the life course....
