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Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases

Scaling-up community-led diabetes and NCD awareness and response in Bangladesh

Bangladesh

19 Feb 2025

Between 2016 and 2019, the DMagic (Diabetes Mellitus Action through community Groups or mHealth Information for better Control) project revealed a huge burden of diabetes risk in rural Bangladesh. It showed that a Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) method of community mobilisation directed at the general population significantly increased diabetes knowledge and awareness and resulted in large...

19 Feb 2025

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Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases

Transforming diabetes management in China through mobile health

China

19 Feb 2025

The growing prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), particularly in low- and middle-income countries, poses significant healthcare challenges. China faces immense healthcare burdens despite the government’s efforts through the Basic Public Health Service (BPHS) programme. Diabetes-related healthcare costs in China are expected to rise from $250.2 billion to $460.4 billion between 2020 and...

19 Feb 2025

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Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases

Scaling up an mHealth-based school education programme to reduce salt intake in China

China

19 Feb 2025

Excessive salt intake is the leading dietary risk factor for premature death and disability in China. Strategies such as setting maximum sodium targets and front-of-package labelling have proven effective in reducing salt intake, but these approaches are mainly suitable for pre-packaged food products. Although discretionary salt use during cooking or at the table remains the major source of dietar...

19 Feb 2025

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World Health Organization

MAISHA: Establishing youth-friendly mental health services in Nakuru County, Kenya

Kenya

11 Dec 2024

The Mental Health IssueMental health conditions pose a major public health challenge in Kenya. One in four people seeking healthcare reportedly presents with mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities, including anxiety, depression and substance abuse. Young people in particular experience challenges in seeking and accessing mental health care due to limited available services, being unaware o...

11 Dec 2024

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World Health Organization

Gender Mobile Initiative: Empowering communities and integrating mental health support to end Female Genital Mutilation in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Nigeria

11 Dec 2024

The Mental Health IssueFemale Genital Mutilation is estimated to affect close to 20 million women and girls in Nigeria. Ekiti state in the southwest of the country has one of the highest rates of survivors, with one in two women and girls aged 15-49 reportedly being affected. Female Genital Mutilation is a harmful practice and an internationally recognized violation of multiple human rights.&nbsp;...

11 Dec 2024

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World Health Organization

Kids Haven & In2Position NPC: Empowering young people and communities to address mental health challenges in township communities in Johannesburg, South Africa.

South Africa

11 Dec 2024

The Mental Health IssueIn townships and informal settings in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality of Johannesburg in South Africa, family and community violence, labour or sexual exploitation, and socioeconomic disadvantages pose major physical and mental health risks for children and young people. Depression, anxiety and behavioural disorders are among the pressing mental health needs of youn...

11 Dec 2024

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World Health Organization

OKB Hope Foundation: Prevention and primary care at the doorstep of underserved, rural communities in Ghana

Ghana

11 Dec 2024

The NCD IssueMore than 13.3 million people living in rural areas in Ghana reportedly lack direct access to primary care. Limited healthcare facilities, long distances, and missing transportation options complicate the timely diagnosis and treatment of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension, or cardiovascular diseases. As a result, community awareness...

11 Dec 2024

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World Health Organization

Finemind: Integrating mental health services into primary care in Uganda

Uganda

11 Dec 2024

The Mental Health IssueIn the Agago District of Northern Uganda, a region affected by insurgency, conflict and socio-economic hardship, many people are experiencing psychological distress, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and other mental health challenges. Women and girls are particularly at risk of suffering violence, gender-based discrimination or stigma and are often lacking crucial access to ps...

11 Dec 2024

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International League of Dermatological Societies

A Remarkable Milestone Amidst Adversity: First Patient Recruited to Lebanon's National Atopic Dermatitis Registry

Lebanon

03 Dec 2024

The Global Atopic Dermatitis Atlas (GADA) and their collaborators would like to extend a heartfelt congratulations to our colleagues in Lebanon at the Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine – LAU Lebanese American University, LAU Medical Center-Rizk Hospital and the Lebanese Dermatology Society, for recruiting the first patient to their national atopic dermatitis registry (LebRAD) du...

03 Dec 2024

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World Health Organization

Timely Diagnosis and Early Referral of Childhood Cancer Cases Training in three cities in Libya

Libya

30 Nov 2024

As part of the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC), with funding from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and support from the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, WHO Libya country office has conducted training of trainers for primary healthcare (PHC) workers in Misrata, Benghazi and Tripoli.&nbsp;These workshops equipped 60 general physicians from 37 PHC centers with critical s...

30 Nov 2024

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World Health Organization

Get the Conversation to Cancer: #Dukutober Challenge Accepted

Zambia

27 Nov 2024

While breast cancer has a high media profile in many parts of the world, the concept of breast health is still taboo in numerous communities. This was the reason that the Zambian Cancer Society (ZCS), created the “Duku Challenge”. Across Zambia, men and women were asked to wear a head scarf, called a Duku, as a show of solidarity with breast cancer survivors. This has now become an annual Octo...

27 Nov 2024

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NCD Alliance

PODCAST: Oral health takes centre stage

Austria

13 Nov 2024

In this episode we’re talking about oral health and noncommunicable diseases, or NCDs, with Dr Greg Chadwick, President of FDI World Dental Federation, and Dr Dympna Kavanagh, Chief Dental Officer for the Republic of Ireland. What they both stress in today’s chat is how the adoption in 2021 of a World Health Assembly resolution flipped the way that most people thought of oral health—primaril...

13 Nov 2024

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