How can we turn political mandates to combat the global burden of NCDs into actions that will ensure resources are available to comprehensively do so?

NCD Alliance Executive Director, Katie Dain, makes several suggestions to achieve sustainable financing in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology this month, noting the importance of: 

• More and better data on current financing and expenditure;
• Financial investment frameworks for strategic resource use; and
• Domestic resource mobilisation and catalytic funding through development assistance. 

Tobacco taxation provides an effective 'best buys' example upon which domestic revenue raising can be modelled. See the article accepted for publication Sustainable Financing: The Achilles heel of the non-communicable disease response for more insight.

For the published version of the article, including citation information, please visit The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology website here.