This event will explore the need for political will at the highest level, and how co-benefit solutions deliver long-lasting results for women and girls.

Macarena Aguilar talks with women working at the frontline of defending human rights, sharing their stories of physical and mental health challenges not often seen or discussed.

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

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.

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 lifecourse.

This NCD Alliance webinar covered a wide range of topics, from the Commission on Social Development and Commission on Status of Women to WHO Consultations on Dementia, Childhood Obesity and Non State Actors, and the WHO Director General Election - among many others.

The NCD Alliance and The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) hosted on 20 May an early morning roundtable discussion with more than 20 delegates ahead of the start of day three of the 68th World Health Assembly.

NCDs (non communicable diseases) are the #1 cause of death and disability worldwide, and impose years of disability on those affected and their families. NCDs are a significant threat to achieving internationally agreed development goals.

NCDs are the leading cause of mortality worldwide, and the number one cause of death among women.