C3 Collaborating for Health believes that only by working together can we make it easier to be healthy.

Diabetes ‘Question Time’

19 January 2012
Panelists at Diabetes Question Time On Tuesday 17 January, C3 Collaborating for Health, Diabetes UK and SilverStar co-hosted a Question Time-style event in Westminster Central Hall, in front of an invited audience of around 150 people. The event was funded by...
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Trade versus health – who wins?

05 December 2011
Samoa, a South Pacific island nation with a population of 193,000, is – after a 13-year wait – on the verge of winning approval to join the World Trade Organization. However, this has come at a price: the elimination of ‘the prohibition on the importation...
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COP17 and NCDs

01 December 2011
The latest round of international discussions on climate change, COP17 (the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), has begun in Durban, South Africa, with our window of opportunity to take action on changing...
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Seeking ‘Rising Stars in Global Health’

17 November 2011
Grand Challenges Canada, a not-for-profit organisation, is seeking applications to a new funding programme for ‘creative and dynamic developing world innovators’, to help them to pursue their ideas for tackling some of the world’s most challenging health...
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Spreading the word

01 October 2011
Journalists Against HIV and AIDS (Journ-AIDS) has begun a reporting training programme for 30 journalists in Salima, Malawi, to increase their knowledge about the epidemic of non-communicable diseases, particularly diabetes. Malawi is suffering from a double burden...
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Final countdown to the UN HLM

12 September 2011
The United Nations has published the Draft Political Declaration (formerly known as the Outcomes Document), to be adopted at the UN HLM on 20 September. It begins with a strong preambular section, covering a very wide range of concerns around NCD, including inequalities,...
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Don’t lose this opportunity!

18 August 2011
International media are reporting the fears of the NCD Alliance and others that the policies and targets agreed in earlier drafts of the Outcomes Document (now known as a Political Declaration – one of the major outcomes of the UNHLM on NCDs next month) are in...
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Lobby on the ‘Outcomes Document’

11 August 2011
At the UN High-level Meeting in September, the text of an Outcomes Document (now renamed as a ‘Political Declaration’) will be formally approved by member states, leading – C3 hopes – to strong action worldwide to tackle the burgeoning epidemic of NCDs....
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UN Outcomes Document: ‘zero draft’

26 June 2011
On 23 June, the ‘zero draft’ of the Outcomes Document, the finalised version of which will be discussed and voted on at the UN High-level Meeting, was published by the co-facilitators of the process (Jamaica and Luxembourg). The eight-page document clearly...
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Civil society meeting on NCDs

17 June 2011
Today, 16 June, has been the interactive hearing on NCDs, bringing together civil society organisations from around the world in the hall of the General Assembly at the United Nations. C3 attended the event, which took the form of an introductory and closing session...
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