The draft outcome document for the WHO Global Conference on NCDs to be held 18-20 October in Montevideo, Uruguay is now available online for public consultation. The NCD Alliance is preparing a detailed response to the consultation and invites your feedback.
An update on in person community consultations taking place around the world and reminder to make your views and voice heard in the online consultation for people living with NCDs.
The WHO has released a discussion paper on the draft of a Global Action Plan to Promote Physical Activity. NCD Alliance is calling for comments to contribute to a collated submission in response to WHO's consultation, open until mid September 2017.
The Healthy India Alliance last month convened nearly 100 participants for a civil society consultation on the theme of “Multisectoral Collaboration and Capacity Building to Advance NCD Prevention and Control in India”, during which the "India Civil Society Status Report" was launched.
Chronic respiratory disease is one of the 4 main NCDs requiring action, yet one of the the least acknowledged. Dean Schraufnagel hopes an annual World Lung Day on 25th September will help change that.
The HLPF, held from 10-19 July in New York, concluded with Member States adopting a Ministerial Declaration. NCDA, together with several partners, convened a side event to discuss the links between nutrition & diet throughout the 2030 Agenda and mechanisms for promoting healthy environments.
Submitted by ncd-admin on 18 juillet, 2017 - 09:40
Lucy Westerman reports back on the first WHO Forum on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours held from 26-28 June 2017, which focused on enhancing public health actions to achieve health targets for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including prevention of NCDs.
Investments to achieve the health targets in the SDGs could prevent 97 million premature deaths globally between now and 2030, and add as much as 8.4 years of life expectancy in some countries.
Submitted by ncd-admin on 13 juillet, 2017 - 09:00
‘Human rights’ are a fundamental overarching principle of treaties relating to noncommunicable diseases. So what are human rights and how are they relevant to NCDs?
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