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New NCDA podcast previews WHO meeting on NCDs in humanitarian settings
Announcements | 29th February 2024
The new episode of Voices of the health revolution focuses on the need to integrate NCDs in humanitarian contexts, features two leading experts in the field, and comes at a crucial time.
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Lived experience shaping the way ahead in NCD Alliance
Announcements | 27th February 2024
NCD Alliance is delighted to announce that Chikhulupiliro Stanley Ng’ombe, a lived experience advocate from Malawi and a member of the Our Views, Our Voices Global Advisory Committee, is joining the NCD Alliance Board of Directors as an observer.
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Symposium on Meaningful Engagement: People living with NCDs leading the way to the High-Level Meeting on NCDs 2025
Announcements | 23rd February 2024
In preparation for the 4th High-Level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of NCDs (4HLM on NCDs) in September 2025, the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs (GCM/NCD) is tapping into the experiences of people living with NCDs and launching the WHO Symposium on Meaningful Engagement of people living with NCDs, mental health, and neurological conditions.
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NCD Alliance Membership: Reflecting on 2023 and Charting the Course for 2024
Announcements | 21st February 2024
During 2023, the NCD Alliance (NCDA) membership base remained strong, with over 400 members across 60 countries including over 120 full and associate members. NCDA member organisations consist of non-governmental organisations, patient groups, academia and national/regional NCD alliances, all joining together to form a diverse civil society movement united to act on NCDs.
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Lived experience advocates share their stories around health equity and UHC in NCD Diaries new series
Announcements | 20th February 2024
From living in humanitarian settings to being unable to pay for medicines or treatment, lived experience advocates tell us about the challenges they faced in the fifth series of the NCD Diaries project on the theme of Equity and UHC.
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5 countries recognised for their efforts to be Trans Fat Free in new WHO validation programme
Announcements | 12th January 2024
Denmark, Lithuania, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand are the first five countries to receive a validation certificate of Trans Fat Elimination by the WHO, which formally recognises countries that have eliminated industrially produced trans fats from their foods.
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People living with NCDs are front and centre of the NCD response in the Philippines
Announcements | 07th November 2023
Human rights and social justice, NCD care, prevention and meaningful involvement stand as the four key pillars of the recently launched Philippine Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs.
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Eastern Mediterranean NCD Alliance statement on the escalation of hostilities and conflict in Israel and Gaza
Announcements | 23rd October 2023
An urgent call to protect civil populations and respect International Humanitarian Law. Read the Eastern Mediterranean NCD Alliance statement on the escalation of hostilities and conflict in Israel and Gaza, supported by the NCD Alliance.