IDF Europe welcomes the publication of the Healthier Together – EU NCD Initiative, a toolkit to help Member States reduce the burden of diabetes and other Non-communicable Diseases

30 June 2022

IDF Europe welcomes the publication of Healthier Together – EU NCD initiative, a toolkit that aims to help Member States address the burden of NCDs.

As rightly pointed out in the document, there is a strong rationale for increasing the efforts to address NCDs, which lies in the increasing burden of NCDs and the necessity to put more – and also more ambitious – efforts in priority areas to reduce this burden.

WHO Member States support global diabetes targets and action plan for the prevention of non-communicable diseases during the 75th World Health Assembly

30 June 2022

The 75th World Health Assembly (WHA) was held on May 22-28 in Geneva, Switzerland. The theme of this year’s WHA was ‘Health for peace, peace for health’. The event brought together delegations from all WHO Member States, health experts and civil society representatives. One of WHA’s key discussion points was on the follow-up to the Political Declaration of the Third High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Specific sub-items included the draft implementation road map 2023–2030 for the global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013–2030 and the draft recommendations to strengthen and monitor diabetes responses within national noncommunicable disease programmes, including potential targets.

IDF Europe Youth Leadership Lab 2022 - online workshop

29 June 2022

The 2022 cohort of IDF Europe’s YLL participants virtually met on Saturday 25th June for the second time to partake in an online workshop designed to give the group an opportunity to develop their presentation skills.

The group were welcomed and eased into the morning’s session with a recap on the purpose of the YLL programme, followed by a short session on the impact a well-crafted presentation can have, and the shape and format those presentations may take. The groups were then introduced to the theme for this year’s YLL where they will be exploring what Diabetes and Humanitarian Emergencies means to them, and the broad range of events or series of events that it constitutes. On Saturday, we focused on three sub-themes, which the participants were encouraged to choose from, reading the supporting articles chosen and supplied to them, prior to the meeting.