Kenya shines light on mental health crisis sweeping Africa
A new commitment by Kenya’s leaders helped move mental illness onto the health agenda, yet political will was only the beginning of the...
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Becky McCall — United Kingdom
- 9 min
Integrated health care has to happen
The covid-19 pandemic has illustrated how chances of recovery from a severe infectious disease are strongly influenced by the presence,...
James Anderson - United Kingdom
- 5 min
Overcoming key barriers to quality diabetes care around the world
Innovations in diabetes treatment and management have made enormous contributions to global health over the past 100 years, but there are...
Andrea Chipman — United Kingdom
- 2 min
On the steps of recovery
Exploring landmark medical discoveries, and the challenges of ensuring fair and equitable access to their impact. Recovery builds...
dmaccounts
- 1 min
Increasing risk factors hurt economic growth
Better prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) could avert millions of years of lost productivity. Increasing risk factors cause...
Paul Adepoju — Nigeria
- 8 min
Make the link between chronic disease and economic output
As COVID-19 pandemic-priorities escalated, care of non-communicable diseases got pushed aside, particularly in less well off countries....
Marcella McCarthy - United States
- 8 min
Treatment by video is here to stay thanks to the pandemic
It took a rampant, highly infectious and deadly virus to pluck delivery of medical treatment out of the past and into the modern world of...
Jo Waters — United Kingdom
- 13 min
Amazing advances in medicines hold huge promise for a better world
The past century has been one of enormous progress in the understanding of human pathology and treatment of disease. We are now looking...
Andrea Chipman — United Kingdom
- 2 min
Introduction: Medicines that changed the world
As the world continues to undergo one of the biggest healthcare upheavals in a generation, it seems to be an appropriate time to look...
Swagata Yadavar — India
- 8 min
Fake drugs and how to protect the vulnerable
With non-communicable diseases increasingly becoming a major health issue for poorer and wealthier countries alike, securing access to...
Anne Stake — United States of America
- 5 min
To manage syndemics think like an octopus
In the age of syndemics, it is time to think differently. We need more global health organisations to focus their energy outside the...
Devang Vussonj & Heri Marwa — Tanzania
- 5 min
Community health workers key to cost-effective prevention
Already strained healthcare systems further burdened by the Covid-19 pandemic are struggling to pay sufficient attention to NCDs, the...
Teofilo O.L. San Luis Jr. - Philippines
- 4 min
The thyroid, the organ below the radar
Thyroid disorders (TDs) rarely get the publicity of more well-known disease groups, but can lead to tragic consequences, especially in...
Zuzanna Tittenbrun & Sonali Johnson - Switzerland
- 4 min
A goal without a plan is just a wish – the importance of national cancer control plans
Cancer is a challenging disease for all health systems, and the lack of a national cancer strategy can make it more difficult for them to...
Michael Calopietro — Denmark
- 4 min
Building a GPS for doctors – the potential of learning elimination in health care
Many regions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) struggle with a shortage of trained health workers, making it more difficult to...
Kwanele Asante — South Africa & Bruno Helman - Brazil
- 4 min
People power as the driver and disruptor for the NCD agenda
Health care systems around the world are facing growing calls to make care pathways for people living with non-communicable diseases...
Rich Bryson — United Kingdom
- 6 min
Build health systems where conventional services cannot reach
Access to health services remains a key problem in rural areas and lower and middle-income countries (LMICs), where skilled health...
Molly Guy - United States of America
- 5 min
Addressing the unmet needs of people living with diabetes: 100 years after the discovery of insulin
2021 represents the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin and the official launch of the new WHO Global Diabetes Compact. Still,...
Nalini Saligram & Deepa Prahalad - United States of America
- 5 min
Reflecting on women and NCDs in COVID-19 times
Before the pandemic crisis, women’s lives were already heavily affected by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as women constitute the...
dmaccounts
- 7 min
Building Back Better: Investing in healthy populations and resilient health systems for NCDs and men
An open letter to Heads of State and Government The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exacerbated deep inequalities in our...
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