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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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Cancer Survival Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Progress towards the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer target of 60% 5-year survival for all childhood cancers combined, 1990–2019 (CONCORD-4)

Publication

29 Apr 2026

&nbsp;This study provides the most comprehensive global analysis of childhood cancer survival to date, using real-world data from over 600,000 children across 68 countries. It introduces a new Cancer Survival Index to enable comparable tracking of pr...

PublicationCancerMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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Wilms Cancer Foundation

Pediatric Renal Cancer/ Childhood Kidney Cancer (Wilms): Wilms Tumor Relapse (Factors, Treatment Options & Long-term Care)

Article

23 Apr 2026

The following information forms part of the Wilms Cancer Foundation's (WCF) wider comprehensive “Briefing Series” on; ‘Wilms tumor’. The series is designed to provide educational information to key stakeholder groups, at multiple levels, incl...

ArticleBriefs & Fact SheetsGuideFact sheetCancerHealth Literacy DevelopmentMultistakeholder CollaborationAccess to essential medicines and servicesHealth promotionHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing+7

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International Diabetes Federation (IDF)

Is MASLD a missing piece in type 2 diabetes care?

Article

17 Apr 2026

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is strongly linked to type 2 diabetes and occurs when excess fat builds up in the liver due to insulin resistance, obesity, and high blood sugar. People with type 2 diabetes are at grea...

ArticleDiabetes

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International Diabetes Federation (IDF)

Journey to healthy glucose: Two years of lessons from a real-world lifestyle programme

Article

09 Apr 2026

Managing glucose levels requires more than occasional advice or isolated interventions. For a person living with insulin resistance, prediabetes, or type 2 diabetes, long-term support is essential.&nbsp;&nbsp;Over the past two years, Mexico has imple...

ArticleDiabetesDigital health and innovation

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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific

Western Pacific regional implementation plan for the global strategy and action plan on oral health

Publication

27 Mar 2026

During the seventy-sixth session of the WHO Regional Committee in 2025, the Western Pacific Regional Implementation Plan for the Global Strategy and Action Plan on Oral Health (WPR/RC76/6) and its associated resolution (WPR/RC76.R3) were endorsed, ou...

PublicationOral Health

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Health Action International (HAI)

Access to Glucose Self-Monitoring Technologies for the Management of Diabetes

Report

25 Mar 2026

The report Moving Forward on Access to Glucose Self-Monitoring Technologies for the Management of Diabetes uses a product life cycle framework based on WHO’s framework for the life cycle of medicines, and adapted based on a paper employing the fram...

ReportDiabetesNCD LabDigital health and innovation+1

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Global Allergy & Airways Patient Platform

COPD Exacerbations Hub

Guide

23 Mar 2026

The article is part of a patient education hub created by the Global Allergy and Airways Patient Platform (GAAPP) focused on COPD flare-ups (exacerbations). It explains that COPD is a chronic lung disease where symptoms like breathlessness and coughi...

GuideChronic Respiratory DiseasesHarmful use of alcoholHousehold and Outdoor Air PollutionPhysical inactivityTobacco use+3

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