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World Health Organization

WHO Cervical Cancer Elimination Initiative: from call to action to global movement

Briefs & Fact Sheets

14 May 2023

For the first time in history, the world has&nbsp;resolved to eliminate a cancer. Few diseases reflect global inequities as much as cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is the 4th&nbsp;most common&nbsp;form of cancer among women&nbsp; worldwide.

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancer

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International Agency for Research on Cancer

CanScreen5 data repository for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening programmes

Database

10 May 2023

The Cancer Screening in Five Continents (CanScreen5) project of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) aims to collect information on the characteristics and performance of cancer screening programmes across the globe in a harmonized manner and to disseminate the information for improved programme management and informed policy-making. The core objective of CanScreen5 is to encoura...

DatabaseCancer

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World Health Organization

WHO framework for meaningful engagement of people living with noncommunicable diseases, and mental health and neurological conditions

Guide

10 May 2023

The WHO Framework for Meaningful Engagement of People Living with NCDs and Mental Health and Neurological Conditions is a WHO technical product designed to provide practical guidance, norms, and standards to support WHO and Member States advancing, co-creating, and enhancing policies, programmes, and services through the meaningful engagement of individuals with lived experience of these health co...

GuidePublicationMeaningful Engagement of People with Lived ExperiencesHealth promotion

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NCD Alliance, The George Insititute for Global Health

Paying the Price: A deep dive into the household economic burden of care experienced by people living with noncommunicable diseases

Report

09 May 2023

This policy report, authored by the NCD Alliance and The George Institute for Global Health, provides a thorough examination of the economic burden of noncommunicable diseases on households and the mechanisms to reduce out of pocket payments experienced by people living with NCDs. The economic burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) on households poses major challenges to achieving Sustainabl...

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Chatham House

IFIs need a well-defined role in global health

Article

08 May 2023

The forthcoming spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank on 10-16 April will see a critically important debate on the future role of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs).&nbsp; The focus is primarily on how to rectify the $3.5 trillion per annum shortfall in the provision of finance for climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, reforms designed to make the IFIs more effecti...

ArticleHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Diabetes Foundation, Resolve Global Health

Paving a digital pathway to universal health coverage

Article

08 May 2023

Digital innovation that aims to deliver hypertension and diabetes care to millions in low- and middle-income countries demands collaborations that balance the future of digital healthcare with scalable solutions today.

ArticleCardiovascular DiseaseDiabetesMultisectoral ActionMultistakeholder Collaboration+1

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Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control & its Protocols

The Global Tobacco Control Funding Gap

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 May 2023

This funding gap analysis, carried out in 2023, found that the current amount of resources dedicated to tobacco control is around US$ 1.2 billion, while the total amount of funding needed for full WHO FCTC implementation is US$ 9.6 billion, meaning that only 12.5% of needed funding for tobacco control is currently being allocated; this leaves us with an annual funding gap of US$ 8.4 billion....

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesMultisectoral Action+5

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Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control & its Protocols

2023 Global Progress Report on Implementation of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products

Report

07 May 2023

This 2023 Global Progress Report on Implementation of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products is the second in the series of reports prepared since the entry into force of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products in 2018.&nbsp;The Global Progress Report is primarily based on the information submitted by the Parties to the Protocol in the 2023 reporting cycle...

ReportCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesMultisectoral Action+5

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Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control & its Protocols

2023 Global Progress Report on Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Report

07 May 2023

The 2023 Global Progress Report on Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco&nbsp;Control is the tenth in the series of reports prepared since the entry into force of the WHO Framework&nbsp;Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) on 27 February 2005. The report reflects a period when&nbsp;the world began to breathe again after the suffocating experience of COVID-19, the most serio...

ReportCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesMultisectoral Action+5

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World Health Organization

Hypertension

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 May 2023

Key facts An estimated 1.28 billion adults aged 30–79 years worldwide have hypertension, most (two-thirds) living in low- and middle-income countries An estimated 46% of adults with hypertension are unaware that they have the condition. Less than half of adults (42%) with hypertension are diagnosed and treated. Approximately 1 in 5 adults (21%) with hypertension have it under control...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCardiovascular Disease

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World Health Organization

Diabetes

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 May 2023

Key facts The number of people with diabetes rose from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. Prevalence has been rising more rapidly in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries. Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke and lower limb amputation. Between 2000 and 2019, there was a 3% increase in diabetes mortality rates by a...

Briefs & Fact SheetsDiabetes

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The George Institute for Global Health

Health service delivery reforms during and after economic crisis

Report

05 May 2023

Sri Lanka is facing its most profound economic and financial crisis since independence. The economic crisis has compounded health system pressures arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to reduced provision of public services, increased unmet need, growing out-of-pocket expenditure, and increased risk of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment. &nbsp; Health system reforms to...

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