19 April 2016 - The 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem opens today at the UN Headquarters in New York. Governments, UN bodies and civil society will come together to evaluate global drug policy and discuss how to address the most pressing challenges going forward. 

Berlin, 11 April 2016 – The Society of Association Executives handed UICC the International & European Associations Award for Conference Development for the World Cancer Congress.

To strengthen the patients’ voice, we are pleased to announce the creation of the Patient Group Pavilion in the Global Village.

7 April 2016 - On World Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for global action to halt rise in and improve care for people with diabetes.

31 March 2016 - For the first time ever, international childhood cancer experts have developed registry guidelines for collecting data on the stage of cancer at diagnosis among children.

23 March 2016 - French President Francois Hollande has today said he would push for international regulation of medicine prices at a G-7 summit in Japan in May and a G-20 meeting in China in September.

Call for contributions to feed into next cycle of updates to the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines is now open until Thursday 31 March.

The CEO of UICC, Cary Adams, will be attending the World Medical Innovation Forum taking place from 25 to 27 April in Boston, Massachusetts.