The Anniversary of the UN High-level Meeting on NCDs

 By Ann McMikel, Managing Director, African Cancer Control and Global Health Planning, American Cancer Society 

Today marks the first anniversary of the historic UN High-level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs). This meeting represents the first major global effort to address NCDs, the leading causes of death in the world. Today, cancer and other NCDs, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and chronic respiratory diseases, kill about 36 million people each year, and without intervention, the number of NCD deaths is projected to increase to 44 million deaths annually by 2020.

During the UN meeting, world leaders took an important first step in addressing NCDs, by unanimously adopting a declaration that acknowledged the global burden of NCDs and establishing a process to set measurable targets for bringing these diseases under control.

At the World Health Assembly in May 2012, UN member states adopted the first major target for NCD control:  a 25 percent reduction in premature mortality from NCDs by 2025. The World Health Organization is currently developing additional targets and indicators for the prevention and control of NCDs and NCD risk factors and for strengthening health systems and providing access to essential medicines.

These are important steps; however, our work is far from over. These targets and indicators must be adopted and governments must take steps to achieve them, including the allocation of sufficient human and financial resources to achieve measurable progress. Creating broad and holistic public health and health care systems that meet the diverse health needs of populations is key to both NCD control and the improvement of overall health. And finally, the inclusion of NCDs in future health and development agendas will ensure that we continue to make progress against these deadly diseases for many years to come.

Our thanks and appreciation go out to all who helped achieve these important milestones and who are working to ensure a future without the deadly impact of NCDs.  

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Thank you Ann for your wonderful and timely message. We believe the Meetings acknowledged the global burden and threat of NCDs and impact on social and economic development in all countries. However, more needs to be done on the action side of things. As you said, our work is only beginning - we need governments to implement the commitments in the political declaration passed by the High Level Meeting of the United Nations last year and World Health Assembly last June; we need strong global targets that set out the vision of where we are heading with our collective actions; we need national plans and strategies and we need NCDs as part of the MDGs.

Thanks to the generous financial support of the American Cancer Society, our society, Mathiwos Wondu-YeEthiopia Cancer Society started implementing the ”Meet the Targets” project intended to familiarize and encourage the timely implementation of UN High Level Meeting Political Declaration on Non-Communicable Diseases /NCD/ here in Ethiopia. Based on these factual premises and with the collaboration of the Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia/FMoH/,WHO Country Office, Consortium of Ethiopian NCD Associations /CENCDA/ and all our partners has declared its commitment to become actively involved in assisting the government and the society in every possible way, to help make a difference in the outcome of a NCDs prevention and treatment and to take part in the national effort, by filling the gaps that the government alone is not in a position to handle.