Diabetes and Heart Health: Advancing Integrated Care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
This statement was submitted to address agenda item 4.i – Addressing Diabetes as a Public Health Challenge in the Eastern…
Strengthening Diabetes and Cardiovascular Care
Agenda Item 7: Follow-up to the political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on…
WHF Roundtable in Ghana: Cardiovascular disease and diabetes on the rise
On 30-31 March 2023, WHF, WHF Member SASNET and the Ministry of Health in Ghana joined forces to…
Addressing diabetes as a public health challenge in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
This is a statement made at the 68th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean…
Insulin Imports Are Not Meeting Countries’ Needs
Author: Jillian McKoy, senior writer and editor at the Boston University School of Public Health The discovery of…
Highlights from the 74th World Health Assembly
The 74th World Health Assembly (WHA74), under the theme “Ending this pandemic, preventing the next: building together a healthier, safer and fairer…
Addressing diabetes and access to insulin at #WHA74
This is a statement made at the 74th session of the World Health Assembly on Agenda item 13.3:…
The cost of inaction on diabetes and hypertension
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) make up seven out of the world’s top 10 causes of death and are responsible…
Addressing Diabetes as a Public Health Concern at #EB148
This is a statement made at the 148th session of the WHO Executive Board on Agenda item 6:…
The diabetes-heart connection and the threat of COVID-19
More than 400 million people are already living with type 2 diabetes and the number is rising on…
WHF announces 2020 Emerging Leaders cohort
The 2020 Emerging Leaders cohort, which includes candidates from 17 countries across 5 continents, has been announced. The…
2020 Emerging Leaders cohort announced
The 2020 Emerging Leaders cohort, which includes candidates from 17 countries across 5 continents, has been announced. The…
Applications are now open for the 2020 Emerging Leaders Programme
Applications are now open to join the 2020 Emerging Leaders Programme – led by Senior Programme Adviser Dr…
Sharing the burden of CVD & Diabetes – a global collaborative effort
The sad story of diabetes as a rising epidemic is having a vast and measurable impact on health…
WHF launches new Global Roadmap on the prevention of CVD among people living with diabetes
Today at ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology, the World Heart Federation launched a…
Report from WHF-IDF event on CVD in people with diabetes now available
“CVD is silent. People must be educated and talk to their doctors.” This is one of the key…
Developing a Roadmap on cardiovascular diseases among people living with diabetes
An international collaboration with WHF and IDF members Last month, a small group of CVD & Diabetes experts…
Today is World Diabetes Day!
Four-in-five parents have trouble recognising the warning signs of diabetes One-in-three wouldn’t spot them at all Brussels, 14…
Paving the way for WHF Roadmaps in 2019
The WHF Roadmaps have become a cornerstone or highlighting priority disease areas in cardiovascular disease. The intended purpose…
New global survey reveals 2 in 3 people with type 2 diabetes have CVD risk factors and/or have experienced a cardiovascular event
To mark World Heart Day on 29 September, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) in partnership with Novo Nordisk…
Growing diabetes epidemic to trigger ‘sharp rise’ in heart attacks and strokes by 2035 in the UK
According to our new analysis the number of people suffering heart attacks and strokes as a result of…