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If you're a journalist or media professional who would like an interview, please contact:

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Our NCDs pages offer thematic insights, statistics, and resources to support your reporting.

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We're committed to shaping a world where everyone can lead healthy, productive lives, free from the preventable suffering caused by NCDs. 

Through our global advocacy initiatives, programmatic work, and partnerships, we are driving meaningful change at local, national, and global levels.

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The Global Week for Action on NCDs is a global campaign led by the NCD Alliance - uniting civil society, relevant private sector organisations, NGOs, decisionmakers and people living with chronic illnesses around a yearly theme.

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