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On 5 December in Santiago de Chile, the Leadership of the Inter-American Society of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery and the World Heart Federation (WHF) held a WHF Roadmaps meeting entitled: Taking steps together in Latin America towards achieving 25by25. This aim of the meeting was to introduce the WHF Roadmap concept and framework to WHF […]

  Wednesday 16 December 10.00-11.30am EST / 16.00-17.30 CET Discussion points will include: Outcomes from the Global NCD Alliance Forum in Sharjah, UAE Updates on the IAEG Indicator Process News from COP21 PATH Call to Action on Access to Medicines for NCDs Latest Updates on WHO Processes   Submit questions prior to the event by […]

Children in the City gathers pace in Romania   The Children in the City project in Romania has been developed by the World Heart Federation (WHF) and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), in partnership with the Romanian Heart Foundation, to promote physical activity in children aged 7 to 12 living in low-income urban […]

            9 to 18 December 2015 The World Health Organization (WHO) is inviting multiple international, national and civil society stakeholders engaged in activities associated with the control and prevention of NCDs to share their knowledge, resources and experience, and add their voice and opinion to this Global Virtual Discussion Forum. […]

    The 67th annual conference of our member the Cardiological Society of India (CSI) 03-06 December in Chennai has been postponed due to the heaviest rains Southern India has seen in over a century.

At the heart of it: innovation and scale in hypertension management in low- and middle-income countries, is one of a series of dialogues spearheaded by the Novartis Foundation global health issues. It is co-hosted with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Centre of Global Non Communicable Diseases and takes place: Tuesday, 1 December […]

From 30 November to 1 December, the World Heart Federation will be attending the ‘Dialogue on how to Strengthen International Cooperation on the Prevention and Control of NCDs’ at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. This discussion is part of the ongoing work of the WHO’s GCM-NCD project (Global Coordinating Mechanism for NCDs), which […]

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Civil society organisations from six Continents united in the fight against NCDs More than 200 civil society representatives from six continents adopted the “Sharjah Declaration on NCDs: Civil Society United Towards 2030″ yesterday, marking the end of the first-ever Global NCD Alliance Forum 2015, held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE). “No one sector alone […]

  A new brief from World Heart Federation member Children’s HeartLink, Finding The Invisible Child: Childhood Heart Disease and the Global Health Agenda, calls attention to access barriers to treatment for millions of children in developing countries in need of care. This is the second in a series of four briefs about cardiovascular disease (CVD) […]

  Diabetes is one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which makes it particularly important for the World Heart Federation to lend our support to the campaign and its objectives and this year, as ever, we are proud to do so. World Diabetes Day was created in 1991 by IDF and the World […]