Tag - Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

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

October 11, 2016

by Sam Byfield

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

Pacific diabetes prevalence: lower than reported

October 6, 2016

by Richard Taylor, Paul Zimmet

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

August 10, 2016

by Ian Anderson

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

July 7, 2016

by Sam Byfield

Pacific summit aims to turn tide on NCDs

June 27, 2016

by Camilla Burkot

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

April 27, 2016

by Ian Anderson

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

Samoa’s solution to the burden of diabetic foot complications

April 11, 2016

by Katrina McGrath

A positive prognosis for community-based NCD screening

July 29, 2015

by Camilla Burkot

Death, taxes, and tobacco

April 28, 2015

by Ian Anderson

TB and diabetes prevalence for 195 countries (log scale)

Visualising the TB-diabetes co-epidemic in the Pacific

April 23, 2015

by Camilla Burkot