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International Society of Nephrology

Perspectives on Early Detection of Chronic Kidney Disease: Thes facts, the Questions, and a Proposed Framework for 2023 and Beyond

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18 Jul 2024

Responsible use of limited healthcare and community resources to improve the kidney health of communities is critical. Ensuring the optimal allocation of these resources requires a multifaceted approach that can address the complex needs of the population effectively. To this end, we encourage the thoughtful application of a comprehensive framework designed to facilitate meaningful change. This fr...

ArticleMultistakeholder CollaborationAccess to essential medicines and services

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International Society of Nephrology

Chronic kidney disease and the global public health agenda: an international consensus

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18 Jul 2024

Early detection is crucial to prevent kidney disease and its complications, but public awareness is low. Increasing knowledge and implementing early detection measures are public health priorities. Kidney disease is becoming more prevalent globally, now ranking as the seventh leading cause of death. Factors such as demographic changes, the obesity epidemic, and climate change will likely worsen th...

ArticleMultistakeholder CollaborationHealth promotion

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Lancet

Non-communicable diseases: can implementation research change the game for policy and practice?

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10 Jul 2024

The paper emphasizes the role of implementation research in bridging the evidence-to-policy (or the know-do gap) for NCDs, and in understanding how to adopt, integrate, and sustain NCD evidence-based interventions in real-world health systems.&nbsp; Despite its potential, implementation research is often underutilized and underfunded, and the field still faces many challenges. The paper calls f...

ArticleHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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NCD Alliance

PODCAST: World Bank takes 5-point approach to financing NCDs and mental health

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08 Jul 2024

The World Bank is co-hosting the Second global dialogue on sustainable financing for NCDs and mental health, 20-21 June 2024, in Washington DC. Ahead of the meeting the NCD Alliance podcast, Voices of the health revolution, spoke with Dr Monique Vledder, Practice Manager of the Global Health, Nutrition and Population Unit at the Bank. She stressed the importance of World Bank President Ajay Banga...

ArticleHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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Discover Public Health

A qualitative assessment of multi-sectoral action for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Uttar Pradesh, India

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06 Jun 2024

Introduction Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on the rise globally, especially affecting vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries. To tackle this, urgent and comprehensive actions are needed. The main preventable risk factors for NCDs are tobacco and alcohol use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and air pollution, rooted in social determinants of health (SDOH). In India, s...

ArticleMultisectoral ActionMultistakeholder CollaborationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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BMJ

New WHO guidance can support transparent and informed engagement with the private sector

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31 May 2024

In this BMJ opinion piece, Kent Buse and Monika Arora discuss WHO's efforts to provide guidance to countries to better assess and inform public sector engagement with the commercial sector are critical to prevent and control non-communicable diseases, and argue that much remains to be done to protect the health of people and the planet.

ArticleMultistakeholder CollaborationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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FIND, NCD Alliance, World Diabetes Foundation

CARE INTEGRATION: SOLUTIONS TO TACKLE DIABETES AND SMOOTH THE PATH TO ENDING TB

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30 May 2024

At the sidelines of the 77th World Health Assembly, FIND and the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) held a side event on opportunities and barriers for integrating care for diabetes and tuberculosis (TB). Speakers engaged in dynamic dialogue across opening remarks, a fireside chat, and two moderated panels. Speakers included communicable and noncommunicable disease experts, donors, country representa...

ArticleBriefs & Fact SheetsDiabetes

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World Diabetes Foundation, Annals of Global Health

National NonCommunicable Diseases Conferences- A Platform to Inform Policies and Practices in Tanzania

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27 May 2024

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) arise from diverse risk factors with differences in the contexts and variabilities in regions and countries. Addressing such a complex challenge requires local evidence. Tanzania has been convening stakeholders every year to disseminate and discuss scientific evidence, policies, and implementation gaps, to inform policy makers in NCDs responses. This paper document...

ArticleBriefs & Fact SheetsDiabetes

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Tanzania Diabetes Association, Tanzania NCD Alliance, World Diabetes Foundation

Tanzania Merges HIV and Diabetes Care to Tackle NCD Crisis

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08 May 2024

Non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes have emerged as serious health crises in developing countries, as HIV was a decade ago. New models of primary health care that combine NCD and HIV care are catching on – and Tanzania is implementing this approach.

ArticleDiabetesAccess to essential medicines and servicesCommunicable diseasesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing+1

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BMJ, Thorax

Availability, cost and affordability of essential medicines for chronic respiratory diseases in low-income and middle-income countries: a cross sectional study

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07 May 2024

Contemporary data on the availability, cost and affordability of essential medicines for chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) are missing, despite most people with CRDs living in LMICs. Cross-sectional data for seven CRD medicines in pharmacies, healthcare facilities and central medicine stores were collected from 60 LMICs in 2022–2023. Medici...

ArticleChronic Respiratory DiseasesMultisectoral ActionAccess to essential medicines and services

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Palliative Medicine

Primary palliative care in low- and middle- income countries: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the evidence for models and outcomes.

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01 May 2024

What is already known about this topic?•• &nbsp;Serious health-related suffering is predicted to more than double in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by 2060.•• &nbsp;Primary care is ‘widely regarded as the most inclusive, equitable and cost-effective way to achieve universal health coverage’ and should include palliative care and symptom management according to the World Healt...

ArticlePublicationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory Diseases+4

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International Pediatric Association (IPA)

Experiences and Challenges with Congenital Hypothyroidism Newborn Screening in Indonesia: A National Cross-Sectional Survey

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28 Mar 2024

The expansion of newborn screening (NBS) for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is essential to reducing the number of preventable intellectual disabilities in children. Because of logistical issues, including geographic extremes, distinct cultures, and 4.8 million births annually, Indonesia has struggled to achieve universal NBS coverage. A national cross-sectional electronic survey was conducted to...

ArticlePublicationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthPrimary health care

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