NCD Alliance

The World Health Organization (WHO) will launch tomorrow the 'Global Status Report on NCDs 2014'. It is the second in a triennial series tracking worldwide progress on prevention and control of NCDs .

                   Monday, 19 January 201511:00  |  Europe Time (Paris, GMT+01:00)  |  2 hr

In preparation for the first intergovernmental negotiations on the Post-2015 development agenda, to be held from 19-21 January at UN Headquarters in NYC, a Civil Society Stakeholder Forum will be held on 16 January. 

The Sustainable Development Solutions Network  has launched a draft report on financing for sustainable development that will provide recommendations for the Financing for Development Conference to be held in Addis Abiba, Ethiopia from 13-16 July. 

MEETING INVITATION: Launch of the second WHO Global Status Report on NCDs

Taking place under the tagline ‘Not beyond us’, World Cancer Day 2015 (4th February 2015) will take a positive and proactive approach to the fight against cancer, highlighting that solutions do exist across the continuum of cancer, and that they are within our reach.

Following nominations by Member States in November 2014 of proposed members for the Working Groups of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs (GCM/NCD), the proposed members have now been published.

Though NCDs are the #1 of killer of women, data on women’s views on NCDs are scarce. Data will be critical in informing actions and interventions both locally and globally to mitigate the growing impact of NCDs in the years to come.

The NCD Alliance has joined cancer leaders in a Call to Action (CtA) to fund Gavi, the vaccine alliance, and support its work against hepatitis B and human papillomanvirus in the poorest countries of the world. 

The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) has released a report from its recent consultation process on the Global Financing Facility (GFF) in support of Every Woman Every Child.

A joint mission of the United Nations Inter Agency Task Force (UNIATF) on the Prevention and Control of NCDs visited India from 8-12 December with the goal of enhancing UN support to the Government of India to scale up the national multisectoral response to NCDs.