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15 Jul 2025

Healthy Caribbean Coalition

Beyond Personal Responsibility: Tackling Industry Influence in Caribbean School Environments (Youth OPEd

Schools are meant to be places of learning and growth, where children develop not just academically but also physically and emotionally. They should be environments that nurture healthy habits and protect young minds. Yet across the region, many of our schools inadvertently support and even promote unhealthy diets. Branded sports gear, canteens filled with unhealthy snacks, and sponsored events ha...

15 Jul 2025

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Alzheimer's Disease International

ADI leads research forecasting dementia to be the 3rd leading cause of death by 2040

Briefs & Fact Sheets

15 Jul 2025

Alzheimer's Disease International, in collaboration with academics from the London School of Economics, published a commentary in Nature Reviews Neurology urging governments to include dementia in NCD policies and frameworks. This paper reveals strik...

Briefs & Fact SheetsMental Health and Neurological ConditionsCivil Society Working GroupHealthy Aging+1

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Sugars and dental caries

Briefs & Fact Sheets

15 Jul 2025

This WHO technical information note on sugars and dental caries highlights the impact of sugar consumption on the global burden of dental caries. Free sugars, found in various foods and beverages, are the primary dietary factor in the development of...

Briefs & Fact SheetsUnhealthy diets

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NCD Alliance

NCDA Advocacy Webinar: HLM4 negotiations update (June 2025)

14 Jul 2025

NCD Alliance hosted an open advocacy webinar on 25 June 2025 to provide updates and share intelligence on negotiations towards the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health and the associated Political Declaration. Given the high level of activ...

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Center for Global Development (CGD)

Can a Global Initiative on Health Taxes Finance Development?

Dialogue

14 Jul 2025

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are struggling from the aftereffects of a global pandemic, rising debt, and stagnating growth—and are now facing a further financing crisis as major donors slash their aid budgets. Against this backdrop, dom...

DialogueCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesHarmful use of alcoholTobacco useUnhealthy diets+5

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World Health Organization

FINANCING FOR SUSTAINABLE PROGRESS TO UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE

Briefs & Fact Sheets

13 Jul 2025

FINANCING FOR SUSTAINABLE PROGRESS TO UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE

Briefs & Fact SheetsHealth taxationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

TOBACCO AND OTHER HEALTH TAXES FOR HEALTHIER POPULATION ACTION AREA A: DOMESTIC PUBLIC RESOURCES

Briefs & Fact Sheets

13 Jul 2025

TOBACCO AND OTHER HEALTH TAXES FOR HEALTHIER POPULATION ACTION AREA A: DOMESTIC PUBLIC RESOURCES

Briefs & Fact SheetsHealth taxationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingHarmful use of alcoholTobacco useUnhealthy diets+3

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World Health Organization

Rapid diagnostic test accessibility considerations for professional use and self-tests

Publication

12 Jul 2025

In the last few decades, rapid diagnostic medical tests, such as those for HIV, or SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), have become widespread in laboratories, clinics, pharmacies, and homes around the world. The uptake of these new innovations, which usually prov...

PublicationAccess to essential medicines and servicesDisability and rehabilitationGender, equity and human rights+1

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The George Institute for Global Health

Meaningful progress or empty promises? An analysis of how gender features in NCD action plans

Report

11 Jul 2025

In the lead up to the 4th High-Level Meeting (HLM4) on NCDs and Mental Health, the George Institute for Global Health conducted an analysis of 65 national NCD plans covering 89 countries, to assess the inclusion of gender across four policy domains:...

ReportGender, equity and human rights

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World Health Organization

Sugars and dental caries: WHO technical note, May 2025

Briefs & Fact Sheets

10 Jul 2025

This WHO technical information note on sugars and dental caries highlights the impact of sugar consumption on the global burden of dental caries. Free sugars, found in various foods and beverages, are the primary dietary factor in the development of...

Briefs & Fact SheetsOral Health

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08 Jul 2025

World Health Organization, British Medical Journal

New BMJ-series: Lived Experience as Expertise

The&nbsp;British Medical Journal (BMJ) has launched a new series titled&nbsp;“Lived Experience as Expertise” which was co-developed with World Health Organization’s Global Coordination Mechanisms on Noncommunicable diseases (WHO GCM/NCD). The collection includes several opinion pieces and an analysis on the importance of meaningfully engaging people living with NCDs, mental health, and neuro...

08 Jul 2025

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British Medical Journal

Practical steps are required to prioritise women’s health in research globally

Article

07 Jul 2025

Opinion piece in BMJ from colleagues in the Women's Health research group at the George Institute for Global Health highlighting the critical need to strengthen robust research that is sex and gender inclusive. Sustainable change will require improve...

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