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 has the vision of reducing the risk of diabetes, and ensuring that all people who are diagnosed with diabetes have access to equitable, comprehensive,...
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 tool to widely include health care professionals in the fight for tobacco control and prevention of tobacco related adverse health effects. This knowl...
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 opening remarks, a fireside chat, and two moderated panels. Speakers included communicable and noncommunicable disease experts, donors, country representa...
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 year to disseminate and discuss scientific evidence, policies, and implementation gaps, to inform policy makers in NCDs responses. This paper document...
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 a global respiratory pandemic, and noted significant increases at that time in tobacco industry spending at the federal level to undermine public heal...
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 diabetes treatment 'bundle'WHO and national policies to support access to diabetes care.
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 implementing this approach.
Article
01 May 2024
What is already known about this topic?•• Serious health-related suffering is predicted to more than double in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by 2060.•• Primary care is ‘widely regarded as the most inclusive, equitable and cost-effective way to achieve universal health coverage’ and should include palliative care and symptom management according to the World Healt...
Publication
30 Apr 2024
This document provides an updated list of “best buys” and other recommended interventions to address noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). It is based on Appendix 3 of the Global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013–2020, which was first approved in 2013 and last updated in 2017. The global action plan, which was extended to 2030 by a World Health Assembly d...
