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SDG3 Newsletter: Diseases

To kick off 2025, we've mainly been discussing the third and fourth WHO targets for ensuring good health and well-being for all. These are to combat communicable diseases and to reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

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Sickle Cell Disease and its impact on the Black community

Check out this interesting  blog written recently by members of Springer Nature's Black Employee Network. They focus on social, medical and policy approaches to improve the lives of those within the Black community affected by sickle cell disease.

Rare Disease Day

This Friday 28 February is Rare Disease Day. Read this blog to discover relevant journal articles, clinical trials, blogs and Q&As with researchers.

World Cancer Day: person-centred care

Read this blog on the new new 2025-2027 theme for World Cancer Day, ‘United by Unique.’ Here you can find related blogs, articles, Collections and clinical trials.

Don't forget to check out this blog on the highly-accessed Collection, Fibrosis and Cancer Intersection, published in Journal of Translational Medicine

Meet the Editors of Implementation Science Communications

Read Dr Elvin Geng's recent Q&A announcing his position as co-Editor-in-Chief of Implementation Science Communications. As an infectious disease physician involved in the public health HIV response and in AIDS research, Dr Geng discusses the current context in the US and the implications it may have for the global HIV response.

You can also read this Q&A for World AIDS Day, where Dr Aaloke Mody, Associate Editor, shares his experiences working in the fields of HIV and AIDS.

A history of Journal of Cannabis Research

Explore this blog on the history of Journal of Cannabis Research to learn about the use of medical cannabis in treating disease and improving symptoms.

HPV vaccination progress

HPV Awareness Day is next week (4 March). Check out this blog that explains HPV vaccination progress and outlines areas for improvement in vaccination programmes.

Maternal and Neonatal Health webinar: sign up now

On 19 March we are hosting a free webinar on “Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices for Improving Maternal and Neonatal Health”. This webinar has some really interesting speakers, click the link to learn more and register.

Get involved! 

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this newsletter. If you are a researcher or colleague who would like to be involved with our SDG3 initiatives, get in touch. To be notified of future SDG3 newsletters, follow me, Alice Coe, on Research Communities.