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The World Heart Federation has released its new Advocacy Strategy 2019-2020: Advocating like Investors. Why an Advocacy Strategy? The new Advocacy Strategy aims to specify what WHF wants to achieve through advocacy by 2022, including broad goals and detailed objectives. It will guide our work and help us measure success over the next four years. […]

On World Heart Day, we are celebrating Heart Heroes … people from all walks of life who have shown commitment, courage, empathy, and care in relation to heart health.  “I’m motivated to counsel people on paying attention to their heart and any signs that there may be trouble.” I was in what I thought was very good […]

On World Heart Day, we are celebrating Heart Heroes … people from all walks of life who have shown commitment, courage, empathy, and care in relation to heart health. “My promise for World Heart Day is to stay focused on taking care of my health and to ensure that I’m around to have a good, long and […]

On World Heart Day, we are celebrating Heart Heroes … people from all walks of life who have shown commitment, courage, empathy, and care in relation to heart health. “My promise for World Heart Day is to help increase awareness of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), a uniformly fatal disease, to ensure early diagnosis and treatment so that […]

On 22 September world leaders met in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, a jam-packed week of meetings, discussions, and side events organized around the most pressing global issues. The World Heart Federation was proud to represent our Members and the cardiovascular community at the highest levels of global governance, including at the UN High-Level Meeting […]

On World Heart Day, we are celebrating Heart Heroes … people from all walks of life who have shown commitment, courage, empathy, and care in relation to heart health. “Most cardiologists have never knowingly seen a patient with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), so they often miss the diagnosis.” I’m 71 years old. For more than a decade, […]

In recent years much has been done to improve mortality caused by the cardiovascular epidemic, but it remains the number one killer on the planet and any decline may be short term and can change direction so we cannot relax our vigilance. Human behaviour plays a huge part in CVD risk, with lifestyle factors such […]

Yesterday, in support of World Heart Day, thousands of Manulife employees joined forces to take part in the financial institution’s fourth annual Global Walk. Physical activity is an important part of CVD prevention and activities like these can really spread awareness of heart-healthy lifestyles as part of workplace wellness strategies. From North America, to Europe, […]

Not all hearts are equal … but they should be WHF, our Members and Partners believe in a world where heart health for everyone is a fundamental human right and a crucial element of health justice. Regardless of country, region, origin, race, gender, age, education and incomes, each human being is entitled to cardiovascular health […]

“Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are of social-economic importance, taking into account that CVD are the second cause of mortality and morbidity in this country,” highlighted Dr. Ephantus Maree, Head of the Division of Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Kenya. For this reason, the MoH joined forces with the Kenya Cardiac Society […]

On World Heart Day, we’re celebrating Heart Heroes … people from all walks of life who have shown commitment, courage, empathy, and care in relation to heart health. “I have been alive for such a long time that I can clearly see a huge difference between the wellbeing of citizens today and that of 70 years ago. […]