Stand Up Speak Out podcast now out on YouTube!
Dive into insightful interviews and discussions from the Stand Up Speak Out podcast series, now featured on NCD Child’s YouTube channel. Over the course of seven episodes, NCD Child Young Leaders and co-hosts, Alex Kwok, Apoorva Gomber, Shakira Choonara, Joab Wako and Anita Bulindi, lead heartfelt conversations with people living with NCDs while challenging stigma […]
Stand Up Speak Out: A Podcast Series Tackling Stigma & Discrimination among People Living with NCDs
Join a Stand Up Speak Out Watch Party! Coming live: Join the final watch party featuring Episodes 5, 6 & 7 of the Stand Up Speak Out series! Episode 5: “Childhood and Workplace Experiences of Stigma”, featuring Oliwcia Kaczmarek and Satyam Divivedi Episode 6: “Living with Type 1 Diabetes”, featuring Jean Langford Epidsode 7: “Friends […]
A pilot digital survivorship advocacy campaign targeting treatment abandonment and herbal medicine abuse
Living with a chronic health condition can often feel isolating and may lead to undesirable outcomes such as treatment abandonment and misuse of medicine. To tackle this issue, Young Leader Ezra Anecho started the project entitled ‘A pilot digital survivorship advocacy campaign targeting treatment abandonment and herbal medicine abuse‘, an advocacy campaign that aims to […]
Organic Tales – Give an organ, give life
All people, no matter where they live, have a right to health and access to quality health care. This includes access to care such as transplantation, a life-saving procedure that is critical for people living with serious conditions such as chronic kidney disease (CKD), a non-communicable disease (NCD) where the kidney loses its function over […]
‘One Step’… Raising awareness of cancer in young people
Young people diagnosed with cancer have unique needs extending from diagnosis, through treatment, and into long-term survivorship care. That is why NCD Child Young Leader, Sophie Manoy, decided to create the ‘One Step‘ initiative, an advocacy project designed to support young people diagnosed with cancer by providing targeted information about diagnosis, treatment modalities and follow […]
Families’ integration in Type 1 Diabetes self-care and control in rural and suburban impoverished communities in Rwanda
In Rwanda, diabetes is a leading non-communicable disease (NCD) for premature death, with type 1 as a predominant condition, and with many cases being misdiagnosed or going undiagnosed due to death. Despite Rwanda’s national community-based health insurance programs, poor socioeconomic status, lack of social inclusion of young people with type 1 diabetes (T1D), and lack […]