young people
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Harmful marketing: selling a sick future to children and teens
21st November 2023
Kids everywhere are under attack by a predator that knows exactly where to find them and how to win their trust. Authorities do little to stop it, parents invite it into their own homes. But the harm it inflicts on kids and teens, which is both immediate and lifelong, has no limit.
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Policy solutions to predatory marketing: Protecting today’s children and youth from a lifetime of chronic disease
11th October 2023
Unregulated commercial marketing of unhealthy products threatens the health and rights of our children and adolescents, shows a new report launched today at the Global Forum for Adolescents.
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Tanzania and Guinea take action against diabetes
14th November 2022
Diabetes rates are skyrocketing around the world – especially in low- and middle-income – but this disease can often be prevented. Tanzania and Guinea are taking actions to reduce the prevalence of diabetes and other chronic diseases.
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Two steps back for the health of women and children in the face of conflict, climate change and COVID-19, report shows
25th October 2022
The health of women and children worldwide has been battered in the last two years, a period that has witnessed growing impacts of conflicts, climate change and the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, reveals the 2022 Every Woman Every Child Progress Report launched on 18 October.