This 4, 5 and 6th June, HCC is hosting NCD meetings in key topics to help forward NCD prevention and control in the Caribbean region.

How do we effectively mobilize resources for health to ensure countries respond effectively to the health challenges of the post-­‐2015 era? This question set the tone for the interactive roundtable, Mobilizing the Means: Sustainable financing for health and NCDs in Post-­2015, co-hosted by the Permanent Missions of the Caribbean Community to the United Nations (CARICOM), UNDP, and the NCD Alliance.

"Governments are in the midst of tough talks in New York over the text of the Addis Ababa Accord, which is scheduled to be adopted at the end of the Third Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), to be held in Ethiopia in July. However at last report, negotiators continued to downplay a powerful mechanism that governments could use to help achieve and finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in September: tobacco taxes."