Nada India Foundation News update

.....Health is not simply a medical issue, but socially and culturally embedded with major economic implications. She emphasized the significant impact of gender on health – an element that had not yet featured centrally enough in GAP discussions.... Jyotsna Roy Patient  Champion, Nada India     “Health is a hugely gendered question, which we have not talked about nearly enough. I urge the GAP  (Global Action Plan) and all of its accelerators to adequately account for the impact of gender on health.” Jyotsna Roy Patient  Champion, Nada India Foundation,  As first panelist, Ms Jyotsna Roy, spoke of understanding and overcoming bottlenecks and challenges in access from the perspective of both a patient and a practitioner. She began by recognizing that health is not simply a medical issue, but socially and culturally embedded with major economic implications. She emphasized the significant impact of gender on health – an element that had not yet f...

 SAFER – a new WHO initiative to boost national alcohol policy processes Published 10. 10 2018 by  Dag Endal WHO recently launched a new action package – SAFER. It aims at supporting the global target of reducing harmful use of alcohol by 10% by 2025. The initiative has been strongly supported by several global civil society networks. SAFER is a WHO-led roadmap to support governments in taking practical steps to accelerate progress on health, beat non-communicable diseases (NCDs) through addressing the harmful use of alcohol, and to achieve sustainable development targets. The SAFER package provides technical guidance on five high-impact strategic actions that are prioritized for implementation to promote health and development: S trengthen restrictions on alcohol availability. A dvance and enforce drink driving countermeasures. F acilitate access to screening, brief interventions, and treatment. E nforce bans or comprehensive restrictions on alcohol advertis...

I OGT Statements   71st Regional Committee Meeting WHO SEARO New Delhi, India, September 3 – 7, 2018 The  Seventy-first Session of the Regional Committee of the World Health Organization Regional Office For South-East Asia  convened in Hotel Taj Mahal, New Delhi, India. Side Event on Preparation for the UN General Assembly High-Level Meetings on Tuberculosis and NCD prevention and control,  IOGT International statement , by   Mr Suneel Vatsyayan , IOGT International regional representative  Alcohol is a major and cross-cutting obstacle to universal health coverage and the SDGs..... Suneel Vatsyayan Agenda item 8.5: Annual report on monitoring progress on UHC and health-related SDGs,  IOGT International statement , by Mr Suneel Vatsyayan

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 

New Alliance To Prevent NCDs In India by   Suneel Vatsyayan Posted on April 28, 2016, in  Prevention ,  IOGT ,  Well-being ,  Civil Society The life stories of two “Dayanands” reveal their indomitable courage. While the first Dayanand from rural Delhi died of cancer at the age of 39, the second Dayanand from East Delhi died of AIDS at the age of 46. What connects them was their use of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; major risk factors of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Both the Dayanands had graduated from, what we call ‘The University of Pain’ and time and again had faced social rejection, stigma, and discrimination. They both volunteered to become peer support counselors and worked hard in empowering their peers. The Dayanand who died from cancer survived with two boys and his ageing mother. (To watch their stories click  here ) Science knows about the correlation of cancer and alcohol use since the 1980s. The International Agen...

Nada India  program on non- communicable diseases and alcohol control has been featured in Niramaya NCD Newsletter    Volume 2,June 2014   This E-Newsletter is an initiative of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare  Government of India , World Health Organisation Country office for India , and is produced by Public Health Foundation of India .            Some excerpts are as follows Nada India works towards providing barrier-free alcohol treatment services across communities. Today, that vision is aligned with drug demand reduction strategy of the Government of India . Nada India has been reaching out to young people through a series of artistic events like painting competition and street theater, Pehchaan Radio Clubs and life skill training workshops. The biggest challenge identified is to protect young people exposed to alcohol consumption at homes by their parents,  portrayal of ...