04 Oct 2025
The World Stroke Organization (WSO) offers a unique Certification of Stroke Centers program, designed to ensure the implementation of evidence-based strategies across two levels of stroke services. This program has significantly enhanced stroke care and facilitated the organization and monitoring of networks worldwide.Anchored in the WSO Roadmap for Quality of Stroke Services, this certification p...
Report
23 Sep 2025
The second Global report on hypertension highlights the urgent need to scale up detection, treatment, and control of hypertension, especially at the primary health care level. It showcases proven solutions, country successes, and clear recommendations for governments and partners. Ensuring reliable access to affordable, quality-assured antihypertensive medicines and validated blood pressure d...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
23 Sep 2025
This video features the voices of people living with chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs), such as COPD and asthma, from around the world. Through their personal stories, patients share how CRDs affect daily life, the challenges they face in accessing care and what is needed to improve lung health.The video was produced for the high-level UN General Assembly 2025 side event, “Lung health matters...
Publication
22 Sep 2025
Chronic respiratory diseases constitute one of the most pressing, yet underappreciated, global health burdens. Determining the burden of disease is fundamental to identify unmet needs at the population level, and reduce individual suffering through improved diagnosis, access to health care, and preventative strategies. Driven by complex socio-environmental factors, respiratory diseases disproporti...
Report
18 Sep 2025
Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs)—primarily asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)—contribute significantly to the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the WHO South-East Asia Region. CRDs impose a growing socioeconomic burden on individuals, families, and health systems, particularly in underserved and marginalized populations. These groups face widespread risk fact...
Article
16 Sep 2025
People with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are particularly vulnerable to health service disruptions resulting from conflicts, natural disasters, and major disease outbreaks. The 2018 Political Declaration of the 3rd UN High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of NCDs called for the strengthening of health system resilience to withstand emergencies due to all haza...
Article
25 Aug 2025
The WHF Roadmap on Single-Pill Combination (SPC) highlights key roadblocks to their wider use and sets out practical solutions to overcome barriers in availability, affordability, and adoption. By scaling up SPCs, countries can improve cardiovascular health and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of a 30% reduction in premature mortality from non-communicable diseases, including CVD, by...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
06 Aug 2025
This policy brief outlines three areas where industry seeks more explicit commitments from governments in the upcoming Political Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health, to be agreed this 25 September at the UN HLM:Leverage health innovationStrengthen prevention and early action for lifelong healthAddress multimorbidity through an integrated approach.Disclaimer: Resources posted by GCM Participants...
Guide
29 Jul 2025
This toolkit was developed in Malawi and designed by older women and men living with incontinence, alongside their caregivers, in collaboration with MANEPO. In 2024, older people and caregivers shared the challenges they face with daily self-care. A team from MANEPO then worked with them to develop a step-by-step toolkit to address these daily challenges and provide home-based ways for improving t...
Report
12 Jun 2025
This report on chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) in the WHO European Region, developed by WHO and the European Respiratory Society (ERS), highlights that despite progress in reducing CRD mortality, their burden and related inequities remain high.Within the Region, disparities are evident, with high CRD prevalence in the western part, but high hospitalization and mortality rates in th...
Strategy document
03 Jun 2025
The joint response from the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), World Cancer Research Fund International (WCRFI) and McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer outlines the cancer community's feedback and recommendations on the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration on NCDs and mental health, and integrating text proposals from the NCD Alliance.
Guide
02 Jun 2025
The fourth UN HLM on NCDs (HLM4) will take place on Thursday, 25 September 2025. FDI and IADR are mobilizing all stakeholders with interest in oral health ahead of HLM4 through coherent and aligned recommendations for governments.
