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23 Sep 2026

NCD Alliance

Bridging the medicines access gap: UNGA 80 Event Report

The event Bridging the Gap: Scaling innovative approaches to NCD medicine access in LMICs held on 23 September, 2025 in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, convened leaders from global health agencies, pharmaceutical companies, governments, regional health bodies, and civil society.&nbsp;Organized by the Medicines Patent Pool, Access to Medicine Foundation, NCD Alliance, and the...

23 Sep 2026

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26 May 2026

World Diabetes Foundation

Challenging the food culture of the Marshall Islands

In 2017, the Canvasback Wellness Center (CWC) surveyed more than 4,000 elementary students in Majuro, revealing that 10% of public school and 25% of private school students were overweight, and 85% ate vegetables five or fewer days a week. These findings underscored a broader challenge in the Marshall Islands - home to 60,000 residents across 29 coral atolls - where diets heavy in white rice, proc...

26 May 2026

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World Health Organization, Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs (GCM/NCD)

Slide Deck: Second GCMN Participants Gathering

Briefs & Fact Sheets

20 May 2026

Slide deck of the Second GCM Participants Gathering on 19 May 2026.&nbsp;The Gathering covered i) strategies to strengthen multisectoral governance and multistakeholder collaboration, ii) improving access to medicines and medical devices for NCDs in...

Briefs & Fact SheetsMeaningful Engagement of People with Lived ExperiencesMultisectoral ActionMultistakeholder CollaborationAccess to essential medicines and servicesDisability and rehabilitation+3
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19 May 2026

WHO

Webinar Series: WHO Academy course on National Cancer Control Planning | 26 May – 8 September 2026 | Virtual

Background&nbsp;WHO launched an online self-paced course on&nbsp;National Cancer Control Planning for Programme Managers&nbsp;in December 2025. The course aims to provide key actors involved in national cancer planning with the requisite knowledge,&nbsp;skills&nbsp;and competencies for developing and implementing evidence-based&nbsp;National Cancer Control Plans (NCCPs) that are context-specific&n...

19 May 2026

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World health organization

Working for a brighter, healthier future: How WHO improves health and promotes well-being for the world’s adolescents, Third edition

Report

14 May 2026

WHO continues to strengthen its work for adolescent health and well-being through a coordinated approach led by the HQ Interdepartmental Technical Working Group on Adolescent Health and Well-being, bringing together expertise from across the Organiza...

ReportMeaningful Engagement of People with Lived ExperiencesMultistakeholder CollaborationGender, equity and human rights+1

Access

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Health taxes

Database

13 May 2026

Health taxes are excise taxes levied on products that have a negative public health impact, for example tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Those are taxes targeting specific products that are proven to be unhealthy or harmful to h...

DatabaseHealth taxationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingHarmful use of alcoholTobacco useUnhealthy diets+3

Access

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World Health Organization

Concept Note: Global Coalition on Oral Health

Briefs & Fact Sheets

13 May 2026

Oral diseases affect close to 3.7 billion people worldwide, with a disproportionate impact on poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals. These conditions combined have an estimated global prevalence of 47%, which is higher than the prevalence of...

Briefs & Fact SheetsOral HealthMultistakeholder Collaboration

Access

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Global Coalition on Oral Health: From pledge to action on UHC for oral health

13 May 2026
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Global Asthma Network

Global Asthma Report 2026: country stories

Report

05 May 2026

The Global Asthma Report 2026: country stories shares perspectives from over 30 countries, providing insight into the burden of disease, state of diagnostic and treatment services, access to preventative vaccines and challenges from all WHO regions....

ReportChronic Respiratory DiseasesMeaningful Engagement of People with Lived ExperiencesAccess to essential medicines and services+1

Access

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05 May 2026

World Health Organization

World Asthma Day: Strengthening asthma and COPD care through primary health care in Nepal and Sri Lanka

WHO is supporting the integration of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) services into primary health care (PHC) in Nepal and Sri Lanka, as part of efforts to strengthen frontline respiratory care and improve access to timely diagnosis and treatment. This work, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, is part of a wider WHO effort to strengthen the prevention, diagnosis and manag...

05 May 2026

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GCM Participant Gathering | May 2026 | Resource collection

04 May 2026
<!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: ▪️ field--node--title--news-and-events.html.twig ✅ field--node--title.html.twig ▪️ field--node--news-and-events.html.twig ▪️ field--title.html.twig ▪️ field--string.html.twig ▪️ field.html.twig --> <!-- 💡 BEGIN CUSTOM TEMPLATE OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/whokap/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> From interministerial engagement to coherent health policies: Strengthening multisectoral governance on NCDs in Ghana <!-- END CUSTOM TEMPLATE OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/whokap/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' -->

04 May 2026

World Health Organization

From interministerial engagement to coherent health policies: Strengthening multisectoral governance on NCDs in Ghana

In Ghana, the Multisectoral National Steering Committee on NCDs convenes government and civil society organizations to support coherent policies and coordinated action for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Through a new project designed to strengthen multisectoral governance mechanisms in low- and middle-income countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) is supporti...

04 May 2026

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