Nada India Foundation News update

                                                                        Anil Sethi, a retired army general in his 60s, was an alcoholic. After a paralytic attack, he gave up drinking and instead found a substitute in Facebook. He would spend four to five hours a day on it. He became detached from his family. His social life shrunk.  Worried, his family brought him to Vatsyayan for counselling, who found that his dependency on social media was no less than his dependency on alcohol. Shakya Mitra, April 23, 2016  After nine years of being a heavy Facebook user, Kishore Dhiman suddenly deactivated his account. The 32-year-old Delhi resident says that the long hours spent on the social networking site were beginning to take a toll on his mental health. The absence of human touch on Facebook was slowly...

Nada India supports the move of the Indian Government that favours holding celebrities liable for appearing in misleading ads and endorsing bad products. Guidelines should include surrogate alcohol advertising and brand endorsement as well. The government is likely to bring out guidelines for celebrities who endorse products, Suneel Vatsyayan, The endorsement by celebrities of products can have serious adverse effects on health –  for example in the case of MAGGI and school children. Maggi product “2 minute noodle”  (that is popular with school kids) was  found to be containing Mono Sodium Glutamate (MSG)  and lead higher than the permissible limits. The samples collected by Uttar Pradesh Food  Safety and Drug Administration proved that MAGGI’s advertising messages, driven home by  Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit – falsely boasted “nutritional value” of the noodles. The common people incr...

In an effort to prevent and control non-communicable diseases in India, the global NCD Alliance convened a consultation of civil society organizations in July 2015. Following this, an Indian network called Healthy India Alliance has been announced.  The Healthy India Alliance  invites you  for the  first National  CSO Consultation  on Non Communicable  Diseases (NCDs) in India  from 25th to 27th April, 2016 at PHD Chamber of Commerce,  August Kranti Marg,  New Delhi. Click here to read the details of the   Healthy India Alliance National Consultation. Download the Healthy India Alliance_NC_Registration Form. For additional details, please contact Prachi Kathuria at prachi@hriday-shan.org or call on +91-11 41031191.

Nada India has been working on prevention and control of Non communicable Diseases at community level with a focus on stress , alcohol and tobacco prevention .This year, Nada volunteered to join other 18 civil societies  to form Healthy India Alliance for the prevention and control of NCDs in India. Genesis of the Healthy India Alliance  The global NCD Alliance (founded by four International NGO federations representing the four main NCDs-cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory disease) and WHO South-East Asia Regional Office convened aConsultation of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from the Region in July 2015, to deliberate on priorities and strategies to advance NCD prevention and control in the Region and the role that CSOs play in this sphere.   As a follow up to this SEAR CSO Consultation, the NCD Alliance convened an Indian Civil Society Round-table to deliberate on a collaborative CSO ...