NCD Alliance event at #UNGA71: leveraging solutions to improve access to healthcare for people living with NCDs
10th September 2016
@ Asian Development Bank
This side event, held in the margins of the 2016 UN General Assembly, will examine the different dimensions of access to healthcare for NCDs in the context of health systems strengthening, including case studies exemplifying structural gaps and associated barriers.
It will explore lessons learnt towards scaling-up holistic solutions to improving access to and availability of NCD medicines, technologies and services, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
It will also raise awareness of the need for increased domestic resource mobilisation, which was outlined in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda adopted at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in July 2015, and the implementation of strong UHC frameworks to support progress on NCDs.
Hosted by the NCD Alliance
Moderator: Ms Catharine Taylor, Vice President, Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
Panelists:
• Dr Jaime Burrows, Vice Minister of Health, Chile
• Dr Gerald Yonga, Professor of Medicine, Head of NCD Research to Policy Unit at Aga Khan University, East Africa, and Chair of NCD Alliance Kenya
• Ms Helen McGuire, Program Leader, Non-communicable Diseases, PATH
• Ms Paurvi Bhatt, Senior Director, Medtronic Foundation
• Ms Abish Romero, Patient Advocate, Mexico
Tuesday 20 September
6:00 - 7:30 pm, followed by a reception
Wharton Forum
Convene Center
730 Third Avenue
New York, NY
Download via the links below NCDA advocacy briefing for UNGA71 and the full calendar of health-related side events.