UKWG survey: NCD prevention and management in LMICs using a life course approach

The UK Working Group on NCDs is conducting an online survey to find out more about how organisations working on the prevention and treatment of NCDs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) understand and utilise the life course approach in their work. We invite you to complete this survey and have extended the deadline toContinue reading “UKWG survey: NCD prevention and management in LMICs using a life course approach”

NCDs and overseas development assistance: a view from a lived perspective

On 12 January 2022, the UK Working Group on Non-communicable Diseases launched a report on Non-communicable Diseases and UK Aid in the Era of COVID-19, commissioned from two consultants with lived experience of NCDs – Dr Zipporah Ali and Dr Helena Davies – who present their thoughts on the project in this guest blog.

ODA and NCDs in an era of COVID-19: report, event and policy recommendations

This blog marks the culmination of a six-month project looking at the place of NCDs within overseas development assistance in the UK, in the context both of recent cuts to the aid budget and of COVID-19. People with lived experience of NCDs have been at its heart: a report was commissioned from consultants who themselvesContinue reading “ODA and NCDs in an era of COVID-19: report, event and policy recommendations”