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Publications & Multimedia

Find all the NCD Alliance publications and the most recent global data on NCDs.

This section includes the latest NCD Alliance publications, such as policy briefs and analysis, progress tracking and advocacy toolkits, and our annual reports.

Publications & Multimedia

  • UN Secretary-General's Report on Progress on NCDs

    UN Secretary-General's Report on Progress on NCDs

    Key Political Commitments
    (157.08kB)  |  10th December 2013

    Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Director-General of the World Health Organization on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.

  • Silence Won't Finish the Fight AGAINST Cancer

    Silence Won't Finish the Fight AGAINST Cancer

    Videos
     |  06th December 2013

    One hundred years ago, the American Cancer Society started the fight of a lifetime -- the fight to end cancer. Back then, the word "cancer" was spoken only in whispers, and we lost almost all patients to the disease.

  • Medtronic Global NCD Initiative Overview 2011

    Medtronic Global NCD Initiative Overview 2011

    Videos
     |  05th December 2013

    This video is an overview of the work that was in progress in preparation for the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs in September of 2011. The work within the Medtronic NCD Initiative has since evolved to fit within an area of focus for Medtronic Philanthropy—expanding access to healthcare for the underserved with chronic disease worldwide. Through its Global NCD Initiative, Medtronic, a leading medical device company, is leveraging its people, products and philanthropy to lead private sector involvement in addressing this global issue. This video animation gives an overview of the problem, and how the private sector is helping to alleviate the burden.

  • Sustaining Human Development: Leveraging Early Life Opportunities to Prevent and Control NCDs

    Sustaining Human Development: Leveraging Early Life Opportunities to Prevent and Control NCDs

    Policy Briefs
    (2.09MB)  |  01st December 2013

    Addressing NCD risks and treatment in children, adolescents and youth is an issue of human rights, as well as a priority for health and sustainable human development. Research shows that the reproductive, maternal and newborn child health continuum o ers critical entry points for in uencing NCD risk later in life and the health status of individuals, families, and future generations.

  • The Recife Political Declaration on Human Resources for Health: Renewed commitments towards universal health coverage.

    The Recife Political Declaration on Human Resources for Health: Renewed commitments towards universal health coverage.

    Key Political Commitments
    (102.79kB)  |  21st November 2013

    The Recife Political Declaration on Human Resources for Health: Renewed commitments towards universal health coverage. 3rd Global Forum on Human Resources for Health

  • Respiratory diseases in the world

    Respiratory diseases in the world

    Analysis, Commentary & Opinion
     |  04th November 2013

    In this report, the European Respiratory Society, on behalf of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies, provides an overview of the 'Big 5' respiratory diseases (COPD, asthma, acute respiratory infections, tuberculosis, and lung cancer), and recommendations to combat them.

  • UNDP Discussion Paper: Addressing the Social Determinants of Noncommunicable Diseases

    UNDP Discussion Paper: Addressing the Social Determinants of Noncommunicable Diseases

    NCD Background Information
    (11.99MB)  |  29th October 2013
  • Sustaining Equitable Human Development: Addressing Non-Communicable Diseases and Disability Throughout the Lifecourse

    Sustaining Equitable Human Development: Addressing Non-Communicable Diseases and Disability Throughout the Lifecourse

    Policy Briefs
    (1.74MB)  |  01st October 2013

    A growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the rising prevalence of disability, and changing global population demographics (including rapidly ageing populations) together pose some of the greatest challenges to sustainable development in the 21st century. These issues impact on quality of life, diminish human dignity, negate human rights, and threaten to reverse the gains made towards creating and sustaining equitable, healthy human development.The determination of the post-2015 development agenda affords an opportunity to ensure a future framework that fully integrates NCDs, that goals and targets drive progress for all people including persons with disabilities, and that a lifecourse and rights-based approach underpins all goals and targets to ensure no one is left behind. Produced in collaboration with Handicap International, HelpAge International, and ADI. (2013)