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...
Publication
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, 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...
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.
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). 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...
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...
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 Sheets
07 Mar 2024
Key facts Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death worldwide, causing 3.23 million deaths in 2019. Nearly 90% of COPD deaths in those under 70 years of age occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). COPD is the seventh leading cause of poor health worldwide (measured by disability-adjusted life years) Tobacco smoking accounts for over 70%...
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...
Article
08 Feb 2024
Meaningful engagement of people living with health conditions means actively incorporating them in all stages of health decision-making. Despite efforts by global health agencies and governments towards meaningful engagement of people living with noncommunicable diseases (PLWNCDs), many opportunities for participation are tokenistic. PLWNCDs often report feeling excluded from technical discussions...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Jan 2024
Even though the prevalence and absolute number of current tobacco users aged 15 years old or older has declined steadily in the 20 years since the adoption of the WHO FCTC, the journey is far from over. Over 8.7 million lives continue to be lost each year due to tobacco use, with 1.3 million of those deaths due to environmental tobacco smoke, leading to enormous economic losses. This investment ca...
Publication
14 Nov 2023
This document is the eighth in a series of Tobacco Knowledge Summaries. This document is prepared with the objective to summarize the current evidence on the association between tobacco use and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This is also intended as an advocacy tool to widely include health care professionals, in particular pulmonologists and respirologists, in the fight for to...
Publication
12 Nov 2023
This document is the eighth in a series of Tobacco Knowledge Summaries. This document is prepared with the objective to summarize the current evidence on the association between tobacco use and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This is also intended as an advocacy tool to widely include health care professionals, in particular pulmonologists and respirologists, in the fight for to...
