World Stroke Organization
World Stroke Academy
Database
02 Jun 2025
The World Stroke Academy is the educational platform of the World Stroke Organization that provides high-quality stroke education to healthcare professionals.
Database
02 Jun 2025
The World Stroke Academy is the educational platform of the World Stroke Organization that provides high-quality stroke education to healthcare professionals.
Guide
02 Jun 2025
The fourth UN HLM on NCDs (HLM4) will take place on Thursday, 25 September 2025. FDI and IADR are mobilizing all stakeholders with interest in oral health ahead of HLM4 through coherent and aligned recommendations for governments.
Guide
30 May 2025
An interactive guide with key steps on how to take legal action against the tobacco industry.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
28 May 2025
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), like diabetes, hypertension, cancers, and mental health conditions, are the leading cause of early deaths around the world. Every year, we pay the price of inaction: USD $2 trillion in lost productivity and health care costs, and 43 million lives lost to a treatable or preventable condition.Yet, there is hope: NCD solutions offer a whopping 19:1 return on investmen...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
28 May 2025
The Fourth UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health (HLM4) presents a pivotal moment for countries to recommit and take action to better prevent and control NCDs and promote mental health, including by ensuring access to NCD medicines, products, and care. Concrete commitments on NCD financing will be particularly critical for advancing progress, including commitments to 1) invest more;...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
28 May 2025
The World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA) and our network of 400 civil society and community organisations across more than 100 countries welcome the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration for the High-Level Meeting (HLM) on NCDs and Mental Health. WHA has prepared this suggested text for the Zero Draft and encourage Member States to include the proposed amendment in the political declaration on NCDs an...
Publication
28 May 2025
Liver cancer is the third most common cause of cancer deaths worldwide, with the majority of liver cancer cases caused by viral hepatitis. The tools to eliminate hepatitis exist, with modelling finding that meeting the WHO hepatitis elimination targets for testing and treatment by 2030 is cost-effective for health systems. Despite this, action to incorporate funded hepatitis interventio...
Strategy document
27 May 2025
The World Heart Federation's response outlines the cardiovascular health community's comprehensive feedback and recommendations on the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health 2025.
Declaration
27 May 2025
This statement was prepared by the World Heart Federation in response to the UN Multistakeholder Hearing on NCD’s panel discussion on Reshaping and Strengthening Health Systems and All Forms of Financing to Meet the Needs of People Living with and at Risk of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Conditions.
Declaration
27 May 2025
This statement was delivered by Prof. Jagat Narula, President of the World Heart Federation, at the UN Multistakeholder Hearing on NCDs in response to a panel discussion on Tackling the Determinants of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health and Well-Being Through Multisectoral and Effective Governance and Collaborative Action.
Dialogue
27 May 2025
We welcome the Zero Draft’s focus on leadership, equity, and integrated, people-centred care. We are particularly encouraged by the inclusion of older people, long-term care, and the life-course approach.However, we remain concerned by the continued use of ageist and discriminatory language, and by the lack of meaningful commitments in several key areas:Healthy Ageing: The disproportionate...
27 May 2025
The Fourth UN High-Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of NCDs in 2025 (HLM4) is a critical moment for governments to commit to action that will keep alive the ambition of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2030 target 3.4 to reduce premature mortality from NCDs by 30% and promote mental health and well-being. A significant contribution to the preparation for HLM4 will be the...