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NCDs National Strategic Plan (NSP) January update
Accelerating Access to Palliative Care: Covid and Beyond Webinar
NCDs ask the SA Human Rights Commission for equity
ANN 1st General Assembly Notice
COVID-19 higher risk UK jobs
Build back fairer: The UK COVID-19 Marmot Review
WHO reveals NCDs leading causes of death & disability worldwide: 2000-2019
Epi update Africa 8 Dec 2020
Climate Change Bill: Comment by 8 August 2018
Note: Vicki Pinkney-Atkinson Climate action, SDG 13, is closely linked to Health SDG 3 and NCDs Some SDG 13 targets: Strengthen resilience & adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in […]
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 […]
Obesity: Is eating slap tjips as bad as smoking? – Bhekisisa
Written by: ADRI KOTZE For millennials, it ain’t looking good, but are hard-hitting campaigns just fat-shaming and counterproductive? The video features a small white box that looks like a cigarette packet. […]
A balanced lifestyle today lowers your cancer risk for tomorrow – CANSA
It is almost mid-year already, and your New Year’s Resolutions for 2018 long forgotten, but it is never a bad thing or too late to take stock of where you […]