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Getting round the restrictions?

30 April 2013
Advertising regulators have put in place restrictions in the UK on advertising of foods high in sugar, salt and fat from children’s television, but food companies including Haribo and Cadbury have now transferred the banned advertising to their child-friendly...
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NCDFREE

25 April 2013
On 26 March 2013, the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (YPCDN) and an Australian design firm, Local Peoples, launched a ‘global social movement to reverse the non-communicable disease burden worldwide’: NCDFREE. It is currently seeking crowd-sourced...
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Behaviour-change tool-kit for NCDs

27 March 2013
A new partnership between the private and NGO sectors has been launched to tackle the growing burden of NCDs worldwide: the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) will be working with the International Federation of Pharmaceutical...
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TB and diabetes

22 March 2013
It has been known for some time that people with diabetes are more likely to contract tuberculosis than those without. The Financial Times cites Dr Anil Kapur, managing director of the World Diabetes Foundation, as saying that ‘People with diabetes in the developing...
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NCDs, MDGs and SDGs – Feb 2013

18 February 2013
[This is also available as a pdf here >>] This is an update of an earlier alert (October 2012 (here) – slightly updated in a blog on the BMJ website here), which described what is happening concerning the global framework on non-communicable diseases, and...
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Viewing excellence

07 February 2013
A video released on 7 February (here >>) provides a comprehensive and engaging overview of the United Health / National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Collaborating Centers of Excellence programme, tackling non-communicable diseases in 11 Centers in developing...
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Assessing diabetes risk

26 January 2013
One of the UK’s largest pharmacy chains, Boots, has begun offering free diabetes risk assessments in all its shops. The tool being used was developed by Leicester University (and is also used by Diabetes UK, which is partnering in this initiative), and consists...
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Mind the GAP…

15 January 2013
On 11 January, and following consultation on the zero draft (published in October), the WHO has issued the first draft of the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013–2020:  here >> Among the changes from the zero draft are a strengthening...
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How much of a risk are NCDs?

08 January 2013
Each year, the World Economic Forum publishes a report on 50 major Global Risks facing the world over the next decade, analysing them in terms of impact, likelihood and interconnections. It draws on a survey of over 1,000 experts from industry, government and academia...
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Sign the Doha Declaration

03 December 2012
The 18th ‘Conference of the Parties’ (COP18) – the UN Climate Change Conference – is currently ongoing in Doha, Qatar (here >>), and C3 (as a member of the Climate and Health Council) has been involved in the drafting of a new ‘Doha Declaration...
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