Report
31 Jan 2024
@MATES4Kids is a coalition of like-minded organisations and individuals committed to collaborative action aimed at identifying, implementing, and monitoring practical solutions to reduce the preventable mortality associated with childhood NCDs. With...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
31 Jan 2024
The United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child clearly states all children with special health requirements have a right to the care needed to enable them to live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible. Despite this, the sad re...
Publication
29 Jan 2024
Over 85% of childhood cancer patients become long-term survivors. Still, cancer and its therapies are associated with a myriad of long-term complications such that childhood cancer survivors (CCS) endure excess disease burden, morbidity, and mortalit...
Guide
29 Jan 2024
This guide provides essential information to assist school staff in supporting students with diabetes. It covers topics such as understanding diabetes, the role of insulin, blood glucose monitoring, managing acute complications, promoting healthy eat...
Guide
29 Jan 2024
This essential guide provides fundamental information for parents and caregivers of children with diabetes. Developed by ADJ Diabetes Brasil, it covers everything from understanding diabetes, its types, and symptoms to practical guidance on blood glu...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
24 Jan 2024
Key facts Trans fat, or trans-fatty acids (TFA), are unsaturated fatty acids that come from either industrial or natural sources. More than 278 000 deaths each year globally can be attributed to intake of industrially produced trans fat....
Case study
22 Jan 2024
The conflict in Ukraine did not begin with the Russian invasion in 2022: since 2014, 1.5 million people had already been internally displaced in the occupied Donbas region in the east of the country on the border with Russia. However, by the end of S...
Strategy document
22 Jan 2024
This toolkit provides key information on Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) prevention, detection, and management. Aligning with the ISN 0by25 initiative, it supports the development of workflows for diverse clinical settings, including low-res...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
22 Jan 2024
Living with and managing a chronic condition can be challenging in any circumstances. However, people living with NCDs face even greater challenges when living in a humanitarian setting. Humanitarian emergencies threaten the health, safety or well...
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...
Publication
03 Jan 2024
WHO has been supporting EMR Member States in their efforts to achieve nutrition-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the global and regional nutrition targets. Some progress has been made, and more technical support is needed to accelerat...
Case study
01 Jan 2024
This Series is produced as first part of the WHO’s Primary Health Care (PHC) Implementation Solutions Initiative. The Series sets out to unpack the implementation pathways undertaken in country-specific reforms to understand how and why reforms fol...
