Briefs & Fact Sheets
23 Apr 2025
Global Stroke policy brief, highlighting the global stroke burden, and actions to improve prevention, treatment and recovery from stroke as part of the NCD response. Published by the Global Stroke Action Coalition, a multisectoral advocacy initiative convened by the World Stroke Organization.
Article
18 Feb 2025
1 in 5 people are diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Nearly every family around the world is affected by cancer, either directly or as caregivers of someone who has had cancer. A cancer diagnosis can have a profound effect on the health and well-being of all those involved.In 2022, WHO launched a global campaign to amplify the voices of those affected by cancer, ...
Publication
31 Jan 2025
This document contains messages co-created by a global community of people with lived experience of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), mental health and neurological conditions (PWLE), guided by the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of NCDs, through the WHO Symposium on Meaningful Engagement of People Living with NCDs, Mental Health, and Neurological Conditions.
Case study
29 Jan 2025
The Young Leaders in Diabetes (YLD) are individuals between 15 and 30 years old who complete a year-long training held in ADJ Diabetes Brasil, since 2009. In addition to 6 months of practical and theoretical training, the YLD write, implement, and analyze the outcomes of a project. Most of the projects focus on diabetes education and awareness.Among the outcomes, the training has an immediate impa...
Publication
29 Jan 2025
This guide is a comprehensive resource for healthcare professionals, academics, and communicators, offering recommendations on respectful and empowering language to engage with individuals living with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
23 Jan 2025
The object of this mid-term evaluation, as requested by Member States through decision WHA74(11), was to assess the new operating model of the GCM/NCD launched in 2022 under its 2022–2025 workplan and building upon the 2020 final evaluation of the GCM covering the period 2014–2020 and the earlier 2018 preliminary evaluation of the GCM/NCD. The evaluation focuses on progress, achievements,...
Guide
14 Jan 2025
An estimated 1.3 billion people globally experience significant disability. This figure has grown over the last decade and will continue to rise due to demographic and epidemiological changes. In 2022, the World Health Organization launched the Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities. This report demonstrated that many persons with disabilities are still being left behind. Exp...
Article
19 Dec 2024
In this episode of Let’s Talk Cancer, discover a series of short, 5mn branded films produced for UICC by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions, entitled 'Rewriting Cancer'. This initiative highlights people’s experiences with cancer around the world: patients, their loved ones, caregivers, medical professionals, volunteers. While the 'Rewriting Cancer' series is anchored in people’s ex...
Article
22 Nov 2024
Advocacy for people using health and social care services is widely promoted but its theoretical foundation is under-developed and its impact poorly conceptualised. This paper explores the liberatory potential of in- dependent advocacy, using Fricker's concept of ‘epistemic injustice’ as a framework. People experiencing mental distress are particularly vulnerable to epistemic injusti...
Publication
22 Nov 2024
As the global public health community continues to reflect and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and mental health and neurological conditions remains one of the largest unmet gaps in progress towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). People living with these health conditions, particularly among those most marginalized, acutely understand the impa...
Publication
20 Nov 2024
Social participation is increasingly acknowledged as essential to making health policies that respond to people’s experiences, expectations and needs, and as a key driver of equitable, inclusive and responsive health systems. This policy brief offers insights into how to institutionalize social participation in health policy. It shares seven key principles for institutionalization, along with ca...
Publication
15 Nov 2024
Published in Dermatology in February 2024 by Dorra Bouzzai and colleagues, this article outlines the innovative methodology of the Global Hidradenitis Suppurativa Atlas (GHiSA) for estimating the global prevalence of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS). Utilizing a validated screening questionnaire followed by physician validation, the approach addresses limitations of prior studies by standardizing dat...
