The World Environment Day global movement

World Kidney Day 2012: the global role of kidney transplantation.

There remain major challenges to providing optimal treatment for ESRD worldwide and a need, particularly in low-income economies, to mandate more focus on community screening and implementation of simple measures to minimize progression of chronic kidney disease. The recent designation of renal disease as an important noncommunicable disease at the United Nations High Level Meeting on Noncommun...

World TB Day 2016--advancing global tuberculosis control efforts.

Since the WHO declared tuberculosis a global health emergency in 1993, important strides have been made in global tuberculosis control efforts. Tuberculosis associated mortality has halved and 45 million lives have been saved. Despite these advances, an estimated 9·6 million people developed tuberculosis worldwide in 2014, of whom 1·5 million died. Of the estimated 480 000 cases of multidrug-re...

World Cancer Day 2011: a world without cancer one day?

Diabetes Dictating Policy: An Editorial Commemorating World Health Day 2016

The 21st century is an era of great challenge for humankind; we are combating terrorism, climate change, poverty, human rights issues and last but not least non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The burden of the latter has become so large that it is being recognized by world leaders globally as an area that it is in need of much greater attention. In light of this concern, the World Health Organiz...

world suicide prevention day

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