CEO Perspective

The cost of inaction on preventable non-communicable diseases (NCDs): The spread of unnecessary long-term suffering around the world. My interview with the Financial Times.

Here in Sharjah, we took critical steps as a civil society movement to identify our advocacy priorities that put people at the centre of our work.

Noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease and mental and neurological conditions are the global health tsunami of the 21st century.

No person, regardless of where they are born, should be denied access to inexpensive, life-saving treatment for a curable disease.

What practical issues need to be addressed in order for the National TB control Programme to be more involved in tobacco control?

The world is in the throes of a non-communicable disease (NCD) epidemic.

For TB, we need to move from a 1.5 percent annual reduction in TB incidence to a 10 percent annual reduction.

This year’s Union World Conference convenes during one of the most critical moments in the global fight against tuberculosis.

The Union was founded on a hope and on a dream that they would bring about a world free from the devastation of tuberculosis