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.
Putting noncommunicable diseases on the global agenda: This strategic plan outlines the analysis that informs NCD Alliance’s vision, mission and strategic goals for taking this campaign to the next phase – namely, seeing commitments in the 2011 Political Declaration on NCDs become reality. This planning document also lays out the four main strategies that the NCD Alliance has identified to achieve these goals.
This policy brief explains how NCDs are linked to the three pillars of sustainable development: economic growth, social equity, and environmental protection.
New figures from the WHO Mental Health Atlas 2011 indicate that while the need for mental health care is large, with up to 25% of the population requiring it at some point in their lives, there is underinvestment in the sector. The Atlas shows average global spending on mental health is still less than US$ 3 per capita per year and as little as US$ 0.25 per person per year in low-income countries.
UN Member States unanimously adopted the Political Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases on Monday 19 September 2011 during the opening of the High-level Meeting (HLM) on NCDs at the UN in New York. NCDA closely followed the drafting of the Political Declaration, advocating for specific NCD policy “asks” to ensure Member States produced the most comprehensive and effective document possible. While not all NCDA asks were included in the Declaration, it provides a strong foundation that will accelerate international efforts to prevent and control NCDs and provide a roadmap for action on NCDs worldwide.
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like heart disease and stroke, diabetes, cancer and chronic lung disease kill 36 million people every year . This need not happen. World leaders will meet to address the problem at the United Nations in New York in September 2011. Will your country be there? [Video released by WHO on the eve of the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs in September 2011, where the Poltical Declaration on NCDs was agreed]