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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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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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World Health Organization

WHO guideline on environmentally friendly and less invasive oral health care for preventing and managing dental caries

Guide

05 Mar 2026

This WHO guideline provides evidence‑based recommendations for the safe and effective use of mercury‑free dental materials and minimal interventions to prevent and manage dental caries, in alignment with the Minamata Convention on Mercury and glo...

GuideEnvironment, climate change and health

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Ministry of Public Health Thailand, WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia

Thailand’s National Diabetes Remission Programme. Strengthening comprehensive diabetes care with innovative approaches (2026 case study)

Case study

26 Feb 2026

Thailand is facing a rising burden of type 2 diabetes (T2D), with prevalence increasing from 7.1% in 2004 to nearly 11% in 2025. This report documents how public health partners in Thailand worked together to address this challenge through new diabet...

Case studyDiabetes
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NCD Alliance

NCD Alliance Advocacy Briefing for WHO EB158

Briefs & Fact Sheets

29 Jan 2026

The 158th Session of the Executive Board (EB158), taking place from 2 to 7 February 2026, marks the first WHO gathering following the fourth High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health (HLM4). This resource covers NCD-relevant items on the provision...

Briefs & Fact SheetsHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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