The NCD Alliance and the Task Force on Women and NCDs are calling on governments to take urgent action to integrate NCDs into existing HIV/AIDS and maternal health programmes, ensure Universal Health Coverage, and adopt a gender and evidence-based approach to tackling NCDs across the life course.

This series of pocket cards, “Women and NCDs: A Call to Action”, explores the impact of NCDs at various points throughout the life course, highlighting opportunities for action.

These four cards - girls under five years; girls and adolescents; reproductive years; and beyond reproductive years - delve into some of the most pressing risk factors and NCDs girls and women might encounter at different stages of life, emphasizing the need to deliver integrated, gender-responsive services and programmes.

Resources

Women & NCDs - A Call to Action: Girls Under Five years (77.05kB)

This pocket card explores how increased risks of developing common NCDs – begin as early as gestation. A girl’s development from the womb through early childhood provides a critical opportunity to establish a strong foundation for lifelong health.

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Women & NCDs - A Call to Action: Girls and Adolescents (71.51kB)

This pocket card explores how half of all NCDs that present in adulthood – begin early in life, and many behaviours that underlie common NCDs start during adolescence. Children and adolescents living with NCDs or caring for family members with these conditions often reach lower levels of educational attainment and have poorer access to employment opportunities than those without these responsibilities. To maximise adolescents’ and girls’ opportunities, the NCD epidemic must be addressed.
Women & NCDs - A Call to Action: Reproductive Years (71.86kB)

This pocket card explores how together, common NCDs are the leading causes of death and disability among women of reproductive age and contribute significantly to maternal death and disability. Active screening, diagnosis, and management of common NCDs during a woman’s reproductive years are critical for her health and that of her children.
Women & NCDs - A Call to Action: Beyond Reproductive Years

This pocket card explores how adults over 60 comprise the fastest growing age group today, yet health data for this demographic are rarely available.

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