Nada India joins governing board of Healthy India Alliance for the prevention and control of NCDs in India.
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
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Clean
Air Asia
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 response to a
Request for Proposals (RFP) for setting up a multi-disciplinary CSO coalition
in India, to strengthen NCD advocacy. An ad hoc committee of organizations
working on NCD issues in India responded to the RFP and volunteered to form the
‘Healthy India Alliance’ for the
prevention and control of NCDs in India. The current Governing Board of the Alliance
comprise of the following member organization:
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Association
of Adolescent and Child care in India
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Alzheimer’s
and related disorders society of India
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Cancer
Foundation of India
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Centre
for chronic disease control
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Clean
Air Asia
·
Dakshayani
and Amaravati health and education (Daksham A)
·
Health
Bridge
·
Health
related information dissemination amongst youth
·
Indian
cancer society
·
Madras
Diabetes research foundation
·
Pallium
India
·
Public
Health foundation of India
·
Sundaram
Arulrhaj Hospital
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The
union south East Asia
·
World
Lung Foundation/Vital Strategies
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