Knowledge Action Portal on NCDs

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GWU School of Medicine and Health Sciences

*NEW* Oncology Patient Navigator Training: The Fundamentals

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02 Jul 2025

This comprehensive, competency-based training is free, aligns with CMS requirements for training and uses evidence-based information to prepare patient navigators to effectively address barriers to care for cancer patients and survivors. Through a collaborative process, the&nbsp;GW Cancer Center&nbsp;developed the first-ever, national consensus-based competencies for oncology patient navigators wi...

PublicationCancerMultistakeholder CollaborationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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NCD Alliance

Building resilient health systems to deliver integrated, person-centred NCD and HIV care - Systems that Save Lives case study 3

Case study

16 Jun 2025

In many low- and mid-income countries, one of the most significant co-morbidities is that of HIV and NCDs. It is estimated that by 2035 nearly three-quarters of people living with HIV worldwide will also be living with one or more NCD. Responding to this rising prevalence of NCDs among people living with HIV requires investment in robust, resilient, equitable, and publicly funded health systems to...

Case studyHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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BMJ Global Health

The impact of UN high-level meetings on non-communicable disease funding and policy implementation

22 Nov 2024

Since the original UN General Assembly ‘special session’ for HIV/AIDS, there has been a proliferation of health-related high-level meetings (HLMs), including three for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and a 2019 HLM on universal health coverage that was closely aligned to the NCD framework. This paper attempts to assess the impact of these meetings in terms of funding allocations, domestic NCD...

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World Health Organization

Guidance on global monitoring for diabetes prevention and control: Framework, indicators and application

Guide

14 Nov 2024

The Guidance on global monitoring for diabetes prevention and control by WHO provides a comprehensive framework to support countries in tracking and managing diabetes prevention, care, and outcomes. This document outlines indicators across 4 domains: health system determinants, service delivery, risk factors, and outcomes/impacts. The guidance helps countries align their monitoring efforts with WH...

GuideDiabetesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

HIV and AIDS

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Dec 2023

Key facts HIV remains a major global public health issue, having claimed 40.4 million [32.9–51.3 million] lives so far with ongoing transmission in all countries globally; with some countries reporting increasing trends in new infections when previously on the decline. There were an estimated 39.0 million [33.1–45.7 million] people living with HIV at the end of 2022, two thirds of whom...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCommunicable diseases

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NCD Alliance, RTI International

Spending Wisely: Exploring the economic and societal benefits of integrating HIV/AIDS and NCDs service delivery

Report

09 Oct 2023

&nbsp;Key messages The integration of HIV and NCD services can deliver wider health impacts than standalone disease-specific care, including improved NCD outcomes and sustaining or even improving HIV outcomes. These are due to clinical, functional, and organisational programme efficiencies. Integrated HIV-NCD programmes can save resources for both patients and health systems. Patients bene...

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Chatham House

Domestic public financing is the key to universal health coverage

Article

22 Sep 2023

On the eve of the United Nations high-level meeting on universal health coverage (UHC), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) have published a sobering report which shows that the world is alarmingly off track to reaching the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target on achieving universal health coverage. The global UHC monitoring report highlights that 4.5 billion people – ove...

ArticleHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

Integrating the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and sexual and reproductive health programmes: implementation guidance

Guide

17 Apr 2023

The global community has made great progress in reducing major health burdens in recent decades, including advances in infectious disease control and treatment, maternal, newborn and child health care and sexual and reproductive health (SRH). These successes have contributed to worldwide gains in life expectancy, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The progress is increasingly...

GuideMultistakeholder CollaborationCommunicable diseasesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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Tanzania Diabetes Association, World Diabetes Foundation

Hypertension, diabetes, stroke: they kill more people than infectious diseases and should get a Global Fund

Article

13 Dec 2022

Noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular conditions account for 41 million deaths each year. That’s more than 70% of all deaths globally. Most of these deaths (77%) are in low-income and middle-income countries – including those in Africa. &nbsp; These conditions are currently more prevalent than infectious diseases. Sixty-seven percent occur before the...

ArticleCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetes+8

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Clean Air Fund

From Pollution to Solution in Africa’s Cities: The Case for Tackling Air Pollution Alongside Climate Change

Report

15 Nov 2022

Cities in Africa are growing fast: over 65% of the population will live in urban areas by 2060. This rapid urbanisation is drastically increasing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Air pollution is already Africa’s second biggest cause of death, after HIV/AIDS. So how can African cities catalyse growth that is fast, fair and sustainable? This report looks at the potential benefits of...

ReportChronic Respiratory DiseasesEnvironment, climate change and healthHousehold and Outdoor Air Pollution

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BMJ Global Health

Integration of non-communicable disease and HIV/AIDS management: a review of healthcare policies and plans in East Africa

Publication

04 May 2021

Background Low-income and middle-income countries are struggling to manage growing numbers of patients with chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), while services for patients with HIV infection are well established. There have been calls for integration of HIV and NCD services to increase efficiency and improve coverage of NCD care, although evidence of effectiveness remains unclear. In this...

PublicationCommunicable diseasesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care

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Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance

Global Atlas of Palliative Care

Publication

07 Oct 2020

This second edition of the Global Atlas of Palliative Care updates the current situation of global palliative care development since the original version was published in 2014. A lot has happened in the intervening years including the passage of the World Health Assembly’s resolution on palliative care (WHA67.19). While progress is being made to meet the unmet need for palliative care globally t...

PublicationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetes+3

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