Briefs & Fact Sheets
15 Feb 2025
As the world observes International Childhood Cancer Day (15 February), the World Health Organization (WHO) is highlighting the challenges faced by children with cancer in countries affected by conflict and emergencies.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
04 Feb 2025
This World Stroke Organization policy brief outlines key challenges and opportunities to reduce the global burden of stroke and NCDs through interventions a policy and healthcare systems level. The brief draws on WHO Best Buys for tackling NCDs and the WSO- Lancet Neurology Commission's Pragmatic Solutions to Address the Global Burden of Stroke.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
21 Jan 2025
A briefing paper by the NCD Alliance highlighting barriers and opportunities for improving access to essential medicines and technologies for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It outlines key challenges such as availability, affordability, and equitable distribution, and provides policy recommendations to address these issues, emphasizing the importance of global and national action to meet health...
21 Jan 2025
Hundreds of millions with NCDs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are dying prematurely or suffering life threatening complications because they cannot access affordable and essential NCD medicines and technologies. Many of these lifesaving medicines are proven to work and cost just cents to produce. We have the medicines and technologies to save lives, but international funding is not av...
Article
27 Nov 2024
The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) is pleased to announce the launch of a new version of its patents and licences database MedsPaL. MedsPalis a free resource that provides crucial information on the intellectual property status of patented essential medicines, COVID-19 vaccines, and long-acting platform technologies, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).The latest updat...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
27 Nov 2024
COPD is a major cause of death and disability worldwide, yet many people are unaware of this important condition. Watch this Science in 5 to learn more about the symptoms, causes, and treatments available.
16 Nov 2024
The disparity in access to essential cancer medicines between less and more affluent countries is a major source ofinequities in access to cancer care. In May 2022, the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) launched a new initiative, the Access to Oncology Medicines Coalition (ATOM Coalition), bringing together over 40 organisations from the private and civil society sectors to cooperate a...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
05 Nov 2024
Older people are the age group most at risk from NCDs, yet all too often they are left behind in policy and practice. HelpAge's 14-page briefing, accompanied by a two-page overview with key messages, considers the intersection of older age with NCDs and disability, and their importance for health systems and societies alike. It outlines the unique challenges facing older people livin...
25 Oct 2024
Every year, millions of women die from heart disease, stroke and complications of diabetes, with the greatest number of deaths occurring in low-resource settings, such as parts of rural India. The SMARThealth Pregnancy programme aims to help community health workers identify women at risk and manage their healthcare in order to reduce premature deaths.
Report
15 Oct 2024
Overview The Global Breast Cancer Initiative aims to address disparities in access to care to reduce mortality rates globally. Patient navigation is an evidence-based personalized intervention designed to guide patients through often complex cancer care systems to receive timely access, particularly in low-income and minority populations. It is useful in settings with limited availability...
Report
30 Sep 2024
It is with great pleasure that we present this collection of abstracts, selected from the top 200 submissions to the 2024 World Cancer Congress, held in Geneva, Switzerland, from the 17th to the 19th of September. This compilation reflects the diversity, innovation, and pursuit of knowledge from researchers, programme managers, policy makers and advocates from around the world. It charac...
Publication
27 Sep 2024
Access to appropriate, affordable, effective, and safe health technologies is paramount, especially in low-resource settings, where burden of non-communicable diseases adds on to the infectious diseases. NCDs account for a staggering 74% of global deaths, with 86% of premature fatalities occurring in resource-constrained regions. Cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic resp...
