NCD Alliance Annual Report 2024

2024 was marked by a mixture of longstanding challenges, and new opportunities. The word has undergone profound change. Escalating geopolitical tensions and conflicts, a worsening climate crisis, and funding cuts to the health sector are reshaping the global health and development landscape.

Against this crisis, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including mental health and neurological conditions, continue to inflict a heavy burden on people’s health and well-being worldwide. NCDs alone threaten to overwhelm health systems everywhere, demanding urgent and sustained action. Despite policy progress and strong leadership in some countries, implementation remains woefully insufficient. We are dangerously behind on the 2025 and 2030 targets. The growing global burden of NCDs is unacceptable, inequitable, and rising. 

As we move closer to the end of our 2021-2026 strategy, we are seeing results from our work across the four thematic goals – prevention, care, financing and community engagement – as NCDs climb higher on the global agenda and people living with NCDs take on a growing role in policy and programmes that affect their health. The Annual Report contains a sample of these results.