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...
Report
19 Sep 2025
Saving lives, spending less: the global investment case for noncommunicable diseases outlines why urgent investment in cost-effective interventions for NCDs is essential for health and sustainable development. Drawing on the World Health Organization’s package of NCD best buys, the report demonstrates how these evidence-based measures can help countries reduce premature deaths, strengthen health...
Publication
22 Jul 2025
The International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasias (ISTH) has published updated guidelines for the management of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). The updates to this guideline, originally published in 2020, aim to standardize the therapeutic approach at an international level. In turn, this will increase access to care, reduce hospitalizations and ultimately lower mortality rates f...
Article
03 Jul 2025
Negotiations are ongoing in New York to agree the latest UN political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health.1 With 5 years left to deliver the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, diplomats will be developing a roadmap to get the world as close as possible to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.4.1, which is to reduce premature mortality (between the a...
Report
02 Jul 2025
The first-ever World Health Organization (WHO) Global Oral Health Meeting was convened in Bangkok, Thailand, from 26–29 November 2024. Hosted by the Government of Thailand, it brought together approximately 350 stakeholders, including representatives from over 100 Member States (including 12 health ministers and senior ministry of health executives), 35 United Nations (UN) agencies, and non-stat...
Report
27 Jun 2025
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, remain the leading cause of death and disability in the WHO European Region. Approximately 1.8 million deaths annually are avoidable, with 60% preventable through reduced exposure to risk factors and public health interventions, and 40% treatable with timely and high-quality...
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.
Strategy document
27 May 2025
The World Heart Federation's response outlines the cardiovascular health community's comprehensive feedback and recommendations on the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health 2025.
Strategy document
25 May 2025
This document presents the oral health community’s response to the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration for the Fourth High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and the Promotion of Mental Health and Well-being. These recommendations reflect the views of oral health experts, individuals with lived experience of oral diseases...
Publication
22 May 2025
The American Society of Hematology (ASH), the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) and World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) have developed joint clinical practice guidelines on the diagnosis and management of von Willebrand Disease (VWD), the world's most common inherited bleeding disorder.
