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Accelerating Access to Palliative Care: Covid and Beyond Webinar

The South African Medical Research Council and the Palliative Care Action Group are proud to co-host a webinar that aims to highlight the imperative...

NCDs ask the SA Human Rights Commission for equity

The quest for NCDs equity and social justice is moving onwards and upwards

ANN 1st General Assembly Notice

The Africa NCDs Network will be holding its maiden General Assembly and request the participation of 2 representatives of your National Alliance to...

COVID-19 higher risk UK jobs

17 jobs that are at higher risk COVID-19 mortality England and Wales. Where to do you fit?

Build back fairer: The UK COVID-19 Marmot Review

Read the executive summary here https://bit.ly/382ylHH As the UK emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic ‘Build Back Better’ has become the mantra....

WHO reveals NCDs leading causes of death & disability worldwide: 2000-2019

NCDs now make up 7 of the world’s top 10 causes of death, according to WHO’s 2019 Global Health Estimates, published today. This is an increase from...

Epi update Africa 8 Dec 2020

COVID-19 epidemiological overview adapted for Africa looking only at the WHO Afro and EMRO 8 Dec 2020

President calls for social inclusion of people with disabilities

“We cannot rest if even a single one of our citizens is a victim of discrimination and prejudice on account of having a disability.” This is the...

1st-ever WHO list of essential diagnostic tests

Summary: 1st WHO essential diagnostic list focusing on mainly communicable diseases with a recommendation to include more NCDs in a future edition. PHC and facility level essential package. Vicki Pinkney-Atkinson […]

WHO – Model list of essential in vitro diagnostics – first edition (2018)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The World Health Organization (WHO) published the first edition of the Model List of Essential In Vitro Diagnostics (EDL) in May 2018, in recognition that IVDs are an essential component to advance universal health coverage, address...

Global NCDs target to reduce the harmful use of alcohol

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Heart disease and stroke, cancers, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) cause tens of millions of deaths per year, the majority of which occur during the most productive years of life....

Country Implementation of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 5.3

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)1 and its Parties acknowledge that the tobacco industry represents a serious threat to the achievement of the Convention’s goals and objectives. In fact, Article 5.3 of the...

VAT panel to report in June on zero-rated food

Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene says the panel that has been established to review a list off zero-rated food products will submit its report next month. The Minister said this when […]

Air pollution another silent killer, it’s about more than the lungs – WHO

9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in many parts of the world. New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows […]

Hooked for life – How big tobacco companies seduce youth – CANSA

Available for download: CANSA Campaign Logo (jpg): English | Afrikaans Infographic: Tobacco Companies Target Youth (pdf) English | Afrikaans Powerpoint: Tobacco Companies Target Youth (pdf) English | Afrikaans Hooked for Life – How Big Tobacco Companies Seduce Youth The Cancer […]

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