Ensuring healthy lives for all: NCDs and UHC

Published	12th December 2018
Author	NCD Alliance
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Description

This policy brief is an update to the NCD Alliance’s 2014 brief UHC and NCDs: A mutually reinforcing agenda, and reflects the developments in both the NCD response and UHC agenda since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs.

It makes the case for including NCDs in national UHC benefit packages in order to fully achieve the 2030 Agenda target of healthy lives and well-being for all at all ages.

universal health coverage, NCDs, SDGs, sustainable development, 2030 Agenda

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