Ending Rheumatic Heart Disease is achievable if we put our hearts and minds to it
Preventable, yet persistent, Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is the most commonly acquired heart disease in people under 25 years of age....
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Norman Coleman & Donna O’Brien - United States
5 min read
A global health convergence for approaching infectious and noncommunicable diseases
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the threat that sudden stresses pose to health resources and supply chains in all countries,...
Becky McCall - United Kingdom & Bob Kirsch - United States
9 min read
Landmark discoveries with staggering impact
As long ago as 550 BC, Chinese philosopher Confucius told us to “study the past if you would define the future.” In that spirit FORESIGHT...
Verah Okeyo - Kenya
8 min read
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...
Becky McCall — United Kingdom
9 min read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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...
Anne Stake — United States of America
5 min read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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...
Nalini Saligram & Deepa Prahalad - United States of America
5 min read
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...
Thomas Roades & Andrea Feigl - United States of America
7 min read
Blended finance solutions to the NCD funding gap
Funding for noncommunicable disease care doesn’t match the need, but blended finance is a promising opportunity. The views expressed are...
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