On top of the unfinished agenda of infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries, development, industrialization, urbanization, investment, and aging are drivers of an epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Malnutrition and infection in early life increase the risk of chronic NCDs in later life, and in adult life, combinations of major NCDs and infections, such as diabetes and t...

Hypertension is one of the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, which form the bulk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Studies done in Nepal have reported a prevalence of hypertension ranging from 18.8% to 41.8%. One study reported a tripling of prevalence from 1981 to 2006 in the same community. Along with hypertension, the prevalence of other cardiovascular risk factors has also increas...

Abstract Background The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created immense panic globally with its advent in December and now showing readvent camouflage of different dangerous mutant strains. Its psychological repercussions on the community are very disastrous immeasurable. At this juncture, most vulnerable group patients Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) who sufferers due to...

Uruguay is hosting the WHO Global Conference on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) this month, from 18-20 October. Tabaré Vázquez, the President of Uruguay, tells the Bulletin of the World Health Organization about his country's efforts to prevent and fight NCDs and why countries should step up the global response.

Specialists of developing countries are facing the epidemic growth of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). From 2011 to 2013, I, as a Korean volunteer doctor, had been working in a local primary healthcare center in Bangladesh, assessing rates of NCDs. Proportion of patients with NCDs was increased from 74.96% in 1999 to 83.05% in 2012, particularly due to the spreading of diabetes mellitus, cardio...

This policy brief is one of five relating to the commitment by Heads of State and Government at the High Level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases in September 2011 to call upon the private sector to contribute to the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). A separate discussion paper summarises lessons learnt to date a...

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a global challenge. During the next several decades, NCDs will govern the health care needs of populations in most lowand middle-income countries because of declines in communicable diseases, conditions related to childbirth and nutrition, changes in lifestyle factors (eg, smoking), and population aging (1). We examined the burden of NCDs in the Hashemite Kin...

This was a main motive for the creation of the Global Noncommunicable Disease Network (NCDnet) in July 2009, which offers a collaboration platform for the WHO, its member states, and other international partners committed to the fight against NCDs. In this important task, the Director-General Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health will be advised by representatives from the WHO Regional Off...

The United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS in 2001 was a critical event that dramatically enhanced the global AIDS response. Ten years later, the September 2011 UN HighLevel Meeting on Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control provides a similar opportunity for the international community and national stakeholders to raise awareness and launch an effective glo...