Report
07 May 2025
The report on Patient Stories is published as a ‘living document’ in 2025, timed to be available for the United Nations (UN) High Level Meeting (HLM) on NCDs. At the time of writing, it has 59 stories from 33 countries with representation from all World Health Organization (WHO) regions. Each story is written from a patient’s perspective with support from a GAN investigator or academic co-au...
Report
06 May 2025
Unacceptable gaps persist in how long people can expect to live healthy lives depending on where they live, the communities they belong to, their education level, their race and ethnicity, their income and wealth, their gender and whether they have a disability. The social determinants of health equity - that is, the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, and people’s ac...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
05 May 2025
FIRS is supporting a campaign to improve access to inhaled medicines in low resource, high-burden settings to address the massive and rising burden of death and disability from COPD and asthma.Lack of access to inhaled medicines is causing widespread suffering and death and placing enormous demands on households and healthcare systems.The campaign will engage governments, the United Nations and gl...
02 May 2025
WHO Civil Society Working Group on NCDs Access the list of members of the 3rd Cycle of the CSWG
Declaration
02 May 2025
A Call to Action: Making good on the promise of gender mainstreaming to address global health inequitiesNCDs are the leading cause of death and disability for women globally – accounting for nearly two-thirds of all female deaths, up to 19 million deaths every year. Around the world, girls and women living with or at risk of developing NCDs experience unique challenges in accessing prevention, e...
02 May 2025
WHO Civil Society Working Group on NCDs
Declaration
02 May 2025
Panel 1: Tackling the determinants on noncommunicable diseases, mental health and well-being through multisectoral and effective governance and collaborative actionChildren, adolescents, and youth must be at the core of a comprehensive response to Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health conditions. Embedding their priorities across the NCD and mental health care continuum is essential f...
Declaration
02 May 2025
Statement for UN Multistakeholder Hearing – Panel 2 Delivered on behalf of HRIDAY, the Healthy India Alliance (India NCD Alliance), South-East Asia Regional NCD Alliance, and Global NCD AllianceWe, HRIDAY, the Healthy India Alliance (India NCD Alliance), the South-East Asia Regional NCD Alliance and the Global NCD Alliance, come together to deliver an urgent and united call to action ahead of th...
Declaration
02 May 2025
NCDs are the leading cause of death and disability for women globally – accounting for nearly two-thirds of all female deaths, up to 19 million deaths every year. Around the world, girls and women living with or at risk of developing NCDs experience unique challenges in accessing prevention, early diagnosis, treatment, and care, particularly in low-resource contexts. Ahead of the Four...
Publication
02 May 2025
NCDs remain the leading global cause of death and disability. When it comes to NCDs, women and girls around the world are at even greater risk of either contracting some NCDs or in challenges accessing healthcare, particularly in low-resource contexts. The George Institute for Global Health calls on representatives of the United Nations and international bodies, governments, business, civil s...
25 Apr 2025
The Second General Meeting of the Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs (GCM/NCD) convened Member State representatives, civil society actors, lived experience advocates, and partners to put forward recommendations on accelerating multisectoral and multistakeholder responses to NCDs and mental health conditions. The event marked one of several major milestones on the road to 2025 and the Fourth Hi...
Database
24 Apr 2025
The World Heart Federation aims to become the reference organization for information, knowledge, and policy in the global cardiovascular sphere. As part of our strategic objectives, we launched the World Heart Observatory: a knowledge hub that curates, aggregates, and visualizes data on cardiovascular conditions, biological risk factors, social determinants of health, and health systems and p...
