New guidance for practitioners on child wellbeing

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence in England (NICE) has issued new guidelines on promoting young children’s social and emotional wellbeing. It recommends more comprehensive approaches and earlier identification of...

SENCA: new southern European network on HIV/HCV co-infection

The European Aids Treatment Group (EATG) is supporting the creation of a new network of activists from Italy, Spain, France and Portugal (SENCA) because in parts of Southern Europe, liver failure is now the leading cause of death among HIV-positive...

European Cardiovascular Disease Statistics 2008

The European Heart Network has issued the third edition of its report on CVD statistics in Europe. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the main cause of death in the EU with over 2 million people dying from CVD every year. Moreover, the statistics published in this report...

Spotlight on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)

The Smoke Free Partnership group of NGOs is preparing a series of briefing papers about the WHO FCTC to inform policy makers of their obligations and help transform the Convention into practice. The first briefing paper “Spotlight on the FCTC” was launched in January...

WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health

The Knowledge Networks of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health have completed their final reports. Reports submitted to the Commission and documents commissioned by the Knowledge Networks to provide evidence and inform their final reports are also...