Progress around the world to control noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) has been uneven and insufficient, and governments must step up their efforts, says WHO in its just-released Noncommunicable disease Progress Monitor 2017.

At today's release of the WHO NCD Progress Monitor 2017, NCD Alliance has applauded countries that have taken steps address NCDs, however sounded alarm at the slow progress at country level in implementing cost-effective measures in pursuit of global NCD targets.

The World Health Organization's new "Noncommunicable Disease Progress Monitor 2015" was launched this week during the UN Sustainable Development Summit, in New York.

A new method published today in the Lancet of monitoring countries’ performance in reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases, shows that many countries have a long way to go to reduce suffering and deaths from NCD.