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CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT ...... Nada India is a c o-signing organisation ,  Time to Deliver in 2018: Bolder Commitments and Action Needed to Reverse the Tide of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Disorders Wednesday 6 June 2018  The NCD Alliance and Nada India Foundation  welcome the Report of the WHO Independent High Level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs), Time To Deliver, launched on Friday 1 June in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of crucial negotiations for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on NCDs (UN HLM) taking place in New York this coming September. The Commission's report draws a line in the sand on the need for political leaders to accept that progress to date has been severely inadequate and out of step with the growing burden of NCDs and mental and neurological health. All evidence points to the same unpleasant reality: that if the current pace of progress continues unabated, by 2030 the agreed Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target...

Web-based consultation (10-16 May 2018)  WHO Independent High-level Commission on NCDs The WHO Independent High-level Commission  hosted a web-based consultation from 10 to 16 May 2018 on a preliminary draft report dated 1 May 2018. Nada India submitted comments.  The Nada India commends the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs for its  preliminary draft report and all the work that has been until this point by the Commissioners.  The Nada India also welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the process of developing the first  report of the Independent High-Level Commission on Non- Communicable Diseases.  Please visit the  link to read  Nada India's comments.... #IOGTInternational #NCDAlliance #NCDs @IOGT  Nada India NCD Network  IOGT International 

Vindhya Vatsyayan came to the 2nd Global NCD Alliance Forum as a youth delegate, eager to learn how to better represent the voices of those who suffer NCDs in silence. Today she is using the knowledge and inspiration gained there to do just that. Here she shares some of her key reflections. My father always keeps an eye on what is happening around the world and where he can send his daughter to learn new things, and that's exactly how I ended up attending the Youth Pre-Forum Workshop at the 2 nd  Global NCD Alliance Forum in Sharjah, UAE. I filled in the application form very meticulously; but honestly, it was quite simple because all I had to do was share my story, experiences and the change I want to see in the world. "People will forget what you did but will remember how you made them feel." - a person living with NCDs It was not just focused on my qualifications, but more on why I feel so strongly for a cause and how I plan to bring change. For the first ti...

Nada India &   DakshamA , board members of Healthy India Alliance   prioritised patient and care giver led advocacy within the scope of HIA activities Alliance Highlights from 2016  In its first year, the Healthy India Alliance (HIA) – constituted of 16 members – initiated and laid out the groundwork for collective civil society advocacy on NCD related action in India. Priority actions included mapping and benchmarking of the Indian NCD policy agenda, empowering civil society to monitor Government policies and promote accountability towards the NCD targets, and leveraging global developments on NCDs and SDGs to boost national action.   As part of its coalition building work, the alliance conducted the first National NCD Civil Society Consultation (April 25-27, 2016) involving approximately 80 CSOs in conjunction with the WHO Country Office for India, the NCDA, and the American Cancer Society (ACS). The meeting was attended by representatives from the I...

Heena peer educator from Nada India giving presentation on challenges faced by patients suffereing from NCD  Workshop on  Needs Assessment – Capacities of Patients to manage Chronic Diseases The workshop was jointly organized by Nada India Foundation & Dakshama  :under the aegis of Healthy India Alliance   on 2nd September 2016 at 10am-5pm Where:ISI Indian Social Institute,10, Institutional Area, Lodi Road, (Behind SaibabaMandir) New Delhi, Delhi 110003. People and Patients have a fundamental right to play a meaningful role in developing healthcare policies and programs as policy decisions, at whatever level they are made, will ultimately affect patients' lives. Engaging patients in health policy decisions helps to ensure that policies reflect patient and caregiver needs, preferences and capabilities, making it an appropriate and cost-effective way to address their needs. Patient-centred healthcare promotes greater patient responsibility and...