Putting Teeth on the Global Agenda for Oral Health

20/03/2023 Ihsane Ben Yahya & Katie Dain

Global health leaders need to prioritize action against oral diseases – which impact nearly half of the world’s population. While noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which cause some 74% of all deaths, are getting increased attention from global health influencers, there is one elephant in the room that has received insufficient attention to date. Oral disease. That’s […] Continue reading ->

HIV and NCDs: Integrated Care for Better Health and Stronger Systems

22/06/2022 Katie Dain & Lobna Salem

People are living with HIV for much longer thanks to greatly improved antiretroviral treatments. But they also are at disproportionately high risk for non-communicable diseases which affect everyone more as they age. Now is the time to tackle both in a more integrated way. The extraordinary advances in science over the past three decades that […] Continue reading ->

Non-Communicable Diseases: Is the ‘New Normal’ Too Much Like The Old One?

11/04/2022 Katie Dain & David Watkins

More than two years after the novel coronavirus erupted into a global pandemic, the world is beginning to settle into a new normal. COVID-19 changed how we live and work in ways that will continue long after the pandemic subsides. Digital and automation technologies are here to stay, work is done remotely, and shopping and […] Continue reading ->

‘Better Health, Better Lives’: Norway Launches The World’s First Development Strategy On NCDs

11/12/2019 Katie Dain

On 22 November, the Norwegian government broke new ground for the non-communicable disease response. The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched the first international development strategy to focus on combatting NCDs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The NCD Alliance, the Norwegian Cancer Society and other civil society partners around the world have heralded this […] Continue reading ->