Staff reporter :
The need of utilizing research, data, technology, and innovation has been emphasized to build a healthy and peaceful world that is currently threatened by conflict, inequity, the climate catastrophe, and pandemics.
Experts came up with remarks while speaking at the 75th World Health Assembly (WHA75) with the slogan “Health for Peace, Peace for Health” at Geneva in Switzerland started from Sunday, according to a press release.
Aiming WHA75, Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Alliance developed a Civil Society Advocacy Briefing, dealing with all relevant NCD items in the NCD-related WHA75 agenda and will be presenting in the first day’s session.
The briefing provides background and key advocacy messages on the NCD Alliance’s priorities for the WHA75, aligning with the NCD Agenda (Provisional agenda item 14.1) outlined in the official documents.
The all-inclusive response to the COVID-19 epidemic was insufficient, exposing international solidarity failings and exacerbating disparities.
People with NCDs have been at the epicenter of this issue, especially in low-and middle-income nations, as several NCDs have been linked to more severe COVID-19 outcomes.
The need for action on NCDs is clear as countries will not be prepared for the next epidemic or health hazard unless governments act and invest more in NCDs, the release said.
It placed 15-points recommendations including the inclusion of people living with NCDs (PLWNCDs) in multi-stakeholder engagement as co-developers and co-designers of their country’s NCD principles, policies, programmes and services.
Grounding on the five global diabetes coverage targets for achievement by 2030, MS are recommended for increasing the scope of these goals, as a person living with type 1 diabetes cannot survive without insulin, and therefore pushing the 80 per cent ambition of diagnosis to 100 per cent is suggested.
The final global strategy on oral health and its subsequent action plan may emphasize poor oral health as an NCD risk factor in itself, influencing the treatment outcome of other NCDs.
Its strategic objective on a health workforce needs to address existing payment system models for oral health providers, and recognizes the importance of the oral health community in efforts to minimize antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
And MS ensure NCD prevention and control is integrated into UHC packages and PHC in preparedness and response to public health and other emergencies, meanwhile including the voice of PLWNCDs in humanitarian settings as part of their review of current WHO NCD-related responses in countries, among others.
