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36.1 million people a year

29 April 2011
At the Global Forum in Russia on 27 April, a new World Health Organization report – the first Global Status Report on Non-communicable Diseases – was launched (click here >> to download it). The Report highlights the toll of NCDs – 36.1 million people...
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Ministerial Conf: NCDs and Healthy Lifestyles

28 April 2011
Key leaders from across the world convened in Moscow to discuss approaches to strengthening policies around NCDs prevention and strategies to cope with rising numbers of people around the world with NCDs. At the meetings, jointly organised by the WHO and the Russian...
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Hypertension in LMICs

22 April 2011
The UK’s Medical Research Council, in partnership with the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD >>), is seeking research-project proposals to investigate hypertension prevention and control in low- and middle-income countries. The MRC plans to invest...
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Healthier blood vessels, lower Alzheimer’s risk

19 April 2011
Two recent studies point to the dramatic improvement moderate exercise, moderating diet, and otherwise addressing risk factors may have for improving cognitive function. Ten years ago the British Medical Journal published a study highlighting the links between ...
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More on benefits of physical activity

14 April 2011
A new study of the effects over two years of an RCT to increase physical activity in inactive people on CVD risk factors has been published in the International Journal of General Medicine. The Activity Counseling Trial (ACT) covered 874 people aged 35 to 74, and...
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Healthy lunches help learning

13 April 2011
It is several years since Jamie Oliver, a UK chef, campaigned for improvements in the food served to the country’s children in school lunches, highlighting the inappropriateness of many of the offerings and the inadequacy of the funding devoted to the meals....
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NGOs: pre-register for UN HLM

12 April 2011
Update: This deadline has now passed. The resolution that established the UN High-level Meeting on NCDs in September also requested that the President of the General Assembly organise an informal, interactive hearing with NGOs, civil-society organisations, the...
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Bangladesh burden of NCDs

11 April 2011
A recent study by the Bangladeshi health ministry shows that the burden of NCDs now surpasses infectious disease in the country and now account for 61% of all adult deaths here. Along with heart disease, which now accounts for 12.5% of all in-hospital deaths, diabetes,...
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Brazzaville Declaration on NCDs

09 April 2011
Urgent action is required across Africa to stem the tide of non-communicable diseases in the region, health ministers agreed last week in the last of the regional meetings held ahead of the UN High-level Meeting on NCDs (see C3’s HLM pages for more information...
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Eat Jamaican!

Jamaica is in the midst of a three-month campaign, launched at the start of March by the Agriculture and Fisheries Minister: ‘Eat Jamaican’. Its aim is twofold – to link agriculture and public health by encouraging people to eat locally produced fruits and...
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