NCD Alliance

The World Heart Federation has launched 'Polypill News'. This monthly publication provides updates on fixed dose combination drugs ('polypills') for preventing cardiovascular events.

NCD Alliance is in Budapest this week to hold two sessions of NCD Dialogues at the 31st Alzheimer's Disease International Conference.

Working Groups are being convened under the WHO GCM/NCD to produce recommendations to Governments on NCD prevention & control. Background papers are now available for review.

For the first time, NCDs will be prominently featured at Women Deliver's fourth global conference, taking place from 16 - 19 May in Copenhagen.

Member States call for a progressive, human-rights and public health based approach to addressing the drug problem.

Yesterday concluded the inaugural ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development, which was held 18 - 20 April at UNHQ in New York.

Health groups from around the globe are calling on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo to adopt and enforce a policy of not marketing sugar drinks to children aged 16 and under

Following on from the Habitat III Thematic Meeting on Public Space in Barcelona on 4 and 5 April, the Barcelona Declaration has been finalised and is now available online. 

This 25th to the 27th April, the Healthy India Alliance will be holding the first national CSO Consultation on NCDs, in New Delhi.