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

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:

· Association of Adolescent and Child care in India

· Alzheimer’s and related disorders society of India

· Cancer Foundation of India

· Centre for chronic disease control

· 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

· Nada India Foundation

· Pallium India

· Public Health foundation of India

· Sundaram Arulrhaj Hospital

· The union south East Asia

· World Lung Foundation/Vital Strategies

For additional details, please contact Prachi Kathuria at prachi@hriday-shan.org or call on +91-11 41031191.

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