Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Helps Set Target for Reducing NCDs: ACS Joins Six Partners in Applauding Sebelius' Global Leadership

Some 3000 health ministers and senior health officials at the 65th World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva in May adopted a target for reducing premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by 25 percent by 2025.  In light of this historic measure, the American Cancer Society and six partners sent this letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelieus and U.S. representatives for their leading role in adoption of this target.                                                                     

June 8, 2012

Dear Secretary Sebelius:

Our organizations and the millions of Americans we represent, congratulate you for achieving consensus at the 65th World Health Assembly to adopt a 25 % reduction in premature mortality from non- communicable diseases by 2025. This decision was no small feat and largely due to the U.S. delegation leading the way from the beginning. The Member States of the United Nations took an enormous first step towards the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It gives us tremendous pride to know that the leadership of our country was so crucial to the outcome.

We reaffirm our commitment to follow up on the 2011 UN Political Declaration from the High level meeting on NCDs and look forward to working with you to ensure real action at the country level is achieved to reduce deaths from cardiovascular, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases. We are sensitive of the need for more work to be done in order to achieve our original goal of a robust monitoring framework. It is our hope that these will include, at a minimum, targets and indicators related to hypertension, tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and essential medicines. Moreover, we continue to support a relentless iterative process with Member States that affords improvements based on ongoing assessments of evidence and need.

We urge our partners in the U.S. delegation to maintain the momentum to keep the process moving. It is our responsibility, as civil society stakeholders, to remain engaged with our domestic and global alliances to support this process. With this in mind, we are grateful for the transparent manner in which your department has carried out its mission to mitigate the projected surge in global deaths caused by NCDs. We know your team appreciates the moral and economic imperative to do so this year. 

 Once again, we applaud you and your team for the recent accomplishment in Geneva. 

 Sincerely,

Nancy Brown, Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association

 Larry Hausner, Chief Executive Officer American Diabetes Association

 Matt Myers, President Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids

 Mary A. Pittman, DrPH, President / Chief Executive Officer Public Health Institute

 John R. Seffrin, PhD, Chief Executive Officer American Cancer Society

 Doug Ulman, President / Chief Executive Officer LIVESTRONG

 Allen S. Lichter, MD, Chief Executive Officer American Society of Clinical Oncology

 cc: Nils Daulaire, MD, MPH, Director of Global Affairs, HHS Ambassador Jimmy Kolker, Principal Deputy Director of Global Affairs, HHS Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ms. Nerissa J. Cook, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs

 

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