Tag - Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

2016 Pacific NCD Summit (image: SPC)

Diabetes remains major health challenge in the Pacific

by Colin Tukuitonga

October 26, 2016

Doing homework in Delmas 32, Haiti (Flickr/World Bank/Dominic Chavez CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Is development destiny? The 2015 GBD report

by Camilla Burkot

October 14, 2016

Figure 1: Breakdown of treatment costs for clients seen at DFC versus hospital admissions

Cutting costs while improving care: Samoa’s Diabetic Foot Clinic

by Katrina McGrath

October 13, 2016

Tongans wait to be seen at Viola Hospital, Nuku'alofa (Flickr/DFAT/Connor Ashleigh for AusAID CC BY 2.0)

The global health threat hiding in the shadows

by Sam Byfield

October 11, 2016

Diabetes screening camp (Flickr/Trinity Care Foundation CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Pacific diabetes prevalence: lower than reported

by Richard Taylor, Paul Zimmet

October 6, 2016

Early morning fitness program participants at Tonga's national stadium (Flickr/DFAT/Connor Ashleigh for AusAID CC BY 2.0)

The economic burden of physical inactivity in the Asia-Pacific

by Ian Anderson

August 10, 2016

A Be the Change volunteer leads a nutrition education class in Rwanda (Flickr/USAID/Global Communities/Juozas Cernius CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Shifting the food and development agenda

by Sam Byfield

July 7, 2016

Pacific summit aims to turn tide on NCDs

by Camilla Burkot

June 27, 2016

Free diabetes camp, Trinity Care Foundation, in Karnataka, India (Flickr/Trinity Care Foundation, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Diabetes and development: the numbers, the costs and the response

by Ian Anderson

April 27, 2016

Diabetes billboard, Nauru 2007 (Flickr/DFAT/Lorrie Graham)

Samoa’s solution to the burden of diabetic foot complications

by Katrina McGrath

April 11, 2016