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Collaborating to achieve universal health coverage

Publication

04 Apr 2024

Explore how the innovative pharmaceutical industry is partnering to ensure innovation and access contribute to global health progress and improve lives everywhere in this report.The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) explicitly strive to engage the private sector in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges and emphasize the importance of cross-sector collaborations. Universal Health Cov...

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Action on NCDs: How the innovative pharmaceutical industry helps bridge the care gap

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04 Apr 2024

Through concerted and collaborative action to address NCDs, the global health community, including the innovative pharmaceutical industry, can contribute to global health progress, improve lives,&nbsp;and regain the momentum we need for action on NCDs.In the short time left on the road to 2025, when global stakeholders will report back on progress to reduce NCDs by 25% at the UN High-level Meeting...

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BMC Palliative Care

Palliative care progress in Benin: a situation analysis using the WHO development indicators

Article

13 Mar 2024

This article describes the first macro-level assessment of the status of palliative care development in Benin. A set of indicators adopted by the World Health Organization has enabled an understanding of the gaps in education, essential medicines, and specialized services for an adequate provision of palliative care.

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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

Addressing noncommunicable diseases in emergencies: a regional framework for action

Briefs & Fact Sheets

11 Mar 2024

The Eastern Mediterranean Region faces numerous emergencies due to natural and human-made hazards. These emergencies disrupt health systems, increasing morbidity and mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).&nbsp;The framework aims to integrate NCD management into emergency preparedness and response plans. It emphasizes maintaining continuity of care and medications, and addressing acute com...

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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

Palliative Care- How Can We Respond to 10 years of Limited Progress (World Innovation Summit for Health Report)

Report

07 Mar 2024

The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) report, "Palliative Care: How Can We Respond to 10 Years of Limited Progress," highlights the slow advancement in global palliative care despite the 2014 World Health Assembly Resolution 67.19, which called for strengthening palliative care as part of universal health coverage (UHC). The report underscores persistent inequities in access and quality of...

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World Health Organization

Household air pollution

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

Key facts Around 2.3 billion people worldwide (around a third of the global population) cook using open fires or inefficient stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal, which generates harmful household air pollution. Household air pollution was responsible for an estimated 3.2 million deaths per year in 2020, including over 237 000 deaths of children u...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesHousehold and Outdoor Air Pollution

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World Health Organization

Human papillomavirus and cancer

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

Key facts Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the name of a group of 200 known viruses. They do not cause concerns in most people, but infection with some high-risk types is common and can cause genital warts or cancer. In 90% of people the body controls the infection by itself. Persistent HPV infection with high-risk HPV types is the cause of cervical cancer and is associated with cancers of th...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancerCommunicable diseases

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World Health Organization

Cervical cancer

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

Key facts Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women globally with around 660 000 new cases and around 350 000 deaths in 2022. The highest rates of cervical cancer incidence and mortality are in low- and middle-income countries. This reflects major inequities driven by lack of access to national HPV vaccination, cervical screening and treatment services and social and econom...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancer

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World Health Organization

Global breast cancer initiative implementation framework: assessing, strengthening and scaling up of services for the early detection and management of breast cancer

Publication

07 Mar 2024

Breast cancer is the most common cancer worldwide and the leading cause of cancer deaths among women, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries. The Global Breast Cancer Initiative strives to reduce breast cancer mortality by 2.5% per year, which over a 20-year period can save 2.5 million lives. The purpose of this core technical package is to outline a pathway for incremental,...

PublicationCancerHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Assessment of breast cancer control capacities in the WHO African Region in 2022

04 Mar 2024

Assessment of breast cancer control capacities in the WHO African Region in 2022.&nbsp;

CancerMultistakeholder CollaborationHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco use+1

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Together for health

Investing in Global Cervical Cancer Prevention: Resources for Low-Income and Lower Middle-Income Countries in 2022

Report

14 Feb 2024

The document&nbsp;provides a comprehensive analysis of global funding trends and initiatives aimed at preventing cervical cancer in low-income and lower middle-income countries. It details the financial investments made in HPV vaccination programs, cervical cancer screening, and treatment efforts, underscoring the financial and logistical challenges faced in scaling up these efforts to meet World...

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Global Progress Achieved at WHO Tobacco Treaty Negotiations (FCTC COP 10) in Panama

Guide

12 Feb 2024

ASH welcomes several groundbreaking decisions that will kick start global progress to accelerate the end of the tobacco epidemic:Human Rights Decision: encourages Parties to consider including WHO FCTC principles and implementation efforts when engaging with the United Nations human rights mechanisms.Article 2.1 on Forward Looking Measures (Tobacco Endgame) Decision: an Expert group was establishe...

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