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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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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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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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World Health Organization

Scaling innovations in public health systems: guidance and toolkit

Guide

30 Jan 2026

The World Health Organization guidance and toolkit for scaling innovations in public health systems offer an evidence-based, practical framework to assist governments to lead, coordinate and sustain the scaling of health innovations – specifically,...

GuidePublicationMeaningful Engagement of People with Lived ExperiencesMultisectoral ActionMultistakeholder CollaborationDigital health and innovation+3

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World Health Organization

Policies and interventions to create healthy school food environments: WHO guideline

Guide

27 Jan 2026

Children spend a large share of their day in school, making it a critical setting for shaping lifelong dietary habits and reducing health and nutrition inequities. Yet the foods available, served, sold or promoted in and around many schools often inc...

GuideHealth promotionUnhealthy diets

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World Health Organization

Global report on the use of alcohol taxes, 2025

Report

13 Jan 2026

This report provides an assessment of taxes applied to alcoholic beverages at the global level. It qualitatively compares their design and provides estimates of standardized metrics to compare tax levels between countries, it is a second in a series...

ReportHealth taxationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingHarmful use of alcohol+1

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Global report on the use of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, 2025

Report

13 Jan 2026

This report provides a global assessment of taxes applied to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). It describes and qualitatively compares their design and provides the first global estimation of standardized metrics to compare tax levels between countri...

ReportHealth taxationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingUnhealthy diets+1

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World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO Academy course on National Cancer Control Planning for Programme Managers

Guide

31 Dec 2025

This course for programme managers is designed to equip ministries of health, programme managers and policy and health professionals involved in cancer control with the requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours and abilities for effective go...

GuideCancerHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

WHO guideline on the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) therapies for the treatment of obesity in adults

Guide

12 Dec 2025

Obesity is one of the defining health challenges of our time, affecting more than 1 billion people globally and contributing to millions of preventable deaths each year. Yet despite its scale and impact, the global response remains fragmented, underf...

GuideUnhealthy diets

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