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This week's three-day East African meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) has drawn a charter calling for global action to inform the fight against chronic diseases.

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In 2011, $7.7 billion was allocated to HIV/AIDS projects, while malaria, TB, and maternal, newborn and child health received $1.8 billion, $1.3 billion, and $6.1 billion respectively. NCDs received only 1.5% of all health aid. Sam Byfield explores the resons for these disparities in funding.

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The Healthy Caribeban Coalition has published its fifth annual report, for the year 2013.

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Action on Sugar have released data highlighting both the astonishingly high sugar content, and the variation in sugars, between different sugar-sweetened carbonated soft drinks available in the UK, and are calling for sugar reduction targets to be set by the Department of Health.

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The Uganda NCD Alliance has asked the government to make testing for NCDs mandatory for every Ugandan. 

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The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association, American Lung Association and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids have praised the Government’s plan to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes, and criticised US business interests for challenging ‘Ireland’s life-saving policy’.

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Lack of access to pain relief for dying patients is a public health emergency. It is estimated that almost 18 million people died in unnecessary pain in 2012, mainly in developing countries.

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Last week at the European Congress on Obesity in Sofia, Bulgaria, C3 Collaborating for Health launched its latest publication, with the European Association for the Study of Obesity, entitled Obesity: Perception and Policy – Multi-country Review and Survey of Policymakers 2014.

To mark World No Tobacco Day 2014, an article was published in the Huffington Post by Sally Cowal, Senior Vice President, Global Health  at the American Cancer Society and Jeff Sturchio, Senior Partner at Rabin Martin. The blog explores the complex issues around smoking and China - touching upon the delicate balance between health and the economics of tobacco; smoking and women; and an initiative that tackles smoking in the workplace.

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WHO has released NCD Review Brochure

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