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PAHO has launched a process to select research and development (R&D) projects that contain innovative coordination and financing mechanisms to accelerate the development of medicines and necessary health technologies in middle- and low-income countries.

To help inform the process, PAHO is hosting a civil society online forum on August 23rd for the development of a small number demonstration projects that will test innovative approaches to coordination and financing for diseases primarily affecting low and middle income countries.

The World Heart Federation is now accepting abstract submissions for their 2014 World Congress of Cardiology. The Congress will take place 4-7 May 2014, in Melbourne, Australia.

Click here for guidelines and to submit your abstract.

The World Heart Federation has launched a new infopraphic on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and physical activity. CVD, including heart attacks and stroke, are responsible for 17.3 million deaths per year. Physical activity is a critical one can redue their risk for CVD.

Click here to view the infographic.

The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) has announced their intention to fund landmark research into type 2 diabetes.

Help better position cancer in international discussions of the broader health and development community by providing your comments by 2 August 2013 on the UICC World Cancer Declaration.

Click here to read the WCD and provide comments.

16 July (Kigali, Rwanda) - Partners at the NCD Synergies meeting in Kigali discussed the way to improve NCD prevention and care through liaising with stakeholders, as wella s the need for improved data on the NCD burden.

Click here to read a summary via The New Times.

Click here to learn more about the meeting.

The rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – including cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), diabetes mellitus, cancers, and chronic respiratory diseases – poses a growing health challenge for Africa; this is compounded by the rise in road traffic injuries (RTIs). Yet, in contrast to communicable diseases, Africa’s epidemic of NCDs and RTIs remains largely hidden.

The WHO European Ministerial Conference on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases in the Context of Health 2020 kicked off yesterday with high-level goverment participants and relevant members of civil society.

Click here for the full WHO press release

The NCD Alliance with 6 other international and European organisations supported a joint statement delivered by the World Cancer Research Fund, to the WHO European Ministerial Conference on Nutrition and Non-Communicable Diseases.

The statement highlights the progresses that have been made in recent months in defining the global architecture for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, including targets and key policy commitments for unhealthy diet and obesity.

"(New York and Dakar, Senegal) – Calls to Senegal’s national tobacco quit line surged 588 percent during April and May 2013, compared to the previous two months period, according to data released by the Ministry of Health and Social Action and World Lung Foundation today. The calls coincide with an intense national campaign to warn people about the harms of tobacco."

Read more via the World Lung Foundation