Thematic guide: Noncommunicable diseases - high on the political agenda in 2011

WHO and UN:

• Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. Outcomes of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and the First Global Ministerial Conference on Healthy Lifestyles and Noncommunicable Disease Control. Report by WHO Secretariat
  December 2011, for WHO EB
  apps.who.int/gb
• Implementation of the global strategy and action plan for the prevention and control of NCDs. Report by WHO Secretariat
  November 2011, for WHO EB
  apps.who.int/gb
• Implementation of the global strategy and action plan for the prevention and control of NCDs. Report by WHO Secretariat
  November 2011, for WHO EB
  apps.who.int/gb
  
• Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases
  64th World Health Assembly, May 2011, Document A64/21
  www.who.int
• Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases
  UN GA Resolution A/RES/64/265, April 2010
  http://bit.ly/ifZ7cw
  
• 2008-2013 Action Plan for the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases
  "Working in partnership to prevent and control the four noncommunicable diseases — cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases and the four shared risk factors - tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diets and the harmful use of alcohol" (WHO 2008)
  www.who.int/nmh/publications
• A prioritized research agenda for prevention & control of noncommunicable diseases
  WHO 2011
  http://whqlibdoc.who.int/
  
• Global status report on noncommunicable diseases
  WHO 2010
  http://whqlibdoc.who.int
• WHO topics page: Chronic diseases
  www.who.int/topics/chronic_diseases
• Noncommunicable disease surveillance and global NCD infobase
  www.who.int/ncd_surveillance
• Stop the global epidemic of chronic disease: WHO advocacy guide
  www.who.int/chp/advocacy

Readers:

• Chronic diseases and development
  The Lancet’s third series on NCDs (2010).
  www.thelancet.com/series/chronic-diseases-and-development
• Chronic diseases in developing and newly industrialized countries:
  A new challenge for global health
  Bulletin of Medicus Mundi Switzerland (2010, articles in German, French, or English)
  www.medicusmundi.ch/mms-en/services/bulletin
  

United Nations NCD Summit, New York, 19-20 September 2011
www.who.int/nmh/events/un_ncd_summit2011

United Nations NCD Summit: Political Declaration
adopted on 19 September 2011
www.un.org

• Statement of concern on lack of clarity on role of industry
  in UN High Level Meeting
  Statement signed by over 100 NGOs (including the MMI Network) and delivered to the President of the UN General Assembly
  - Statement: http://info.babymilkaction.org
  - Press release: http://info.babymilkaction.org/pressrelease
  - Letter published in The Lancet: www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet
  
• Medicines for non-communicable diseases: Within our grasp but out-of-reach
  Health Action International briefing note, September 2011
  www.haiweb.org
• Addressing non-communicable diseases by investing in health workers. HWAI letter to UN member states, September 2011
  www.medicusmundi.org
  
• UN High-Level Meeting puts NCDs on the map, falls short of setting goals or targets
  NCD Alliance commenting the Political Declaration, 19 September 2011 
  http://t.co/32YlXRcU 
  
• Alarmed global AIDS activists join the fight to ensure a successful UN NCD summit
  Gregg Gonsalves on: Ip-health, September 2011
  http://t.co/O3lOSFv
  
• NCD Alliance: UN Member States jeopardise international progress on non-communicable disease epidemic
  Letter to the UN General Secretary, 16 August 2011
  http://www.ncdalliance.org/node/3480
  
• WPHNA: Updated draft political declaration of the UN high level meeting:
  Text, comments and advocacy proposals
  "On crucial points the Declaration continues to follow the lines laid down by conflicted transnational industry. These have been represented by bodies such as the World Economic Forum, and follow what is now the common view that conflicted industry should be a full partner in policy formulation as well as implementation. This view is not held by public health and public interest organisations." (August 2011)
  www.wphna.org
• NCD Alliance: Priority language for the outcomes document
  "This paper sets out the priority language that the NCD Alliance is requesting Member States consider for inclusion in the final Outcomes Document of the UN high level meeting." (Version: 4 July 2011)
  www.ncdalliance.org
• WHO: Spotlight on non-communicable diseases prevention and control
  K. M. Gopakumar and Chiara Bodini, TWN Info Severice (May 2011)
  www.twnside.org.sg
  
• "Preventive measures for social and environmental factors must be included"
  Joint MMI/PHM statement at 64th World Health Assembly (May 2011)
  MMI ePlatform

• A New Global Health Agenda
  Edward E. Partridge et al., 4 October 2011
  the-scientist.com
• Big tobacco, the food & beverage industry are not civil society
  Gregg Gonsalves, 27 September 2011
  www.health-e.org.za
  
• Reflections on the UN High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases
  J. Stephen Morrison, 26 September 2011
  www.smartglobalhealth.org
  
• UN NCD Summit: Empty words don't save lives
  "Erika' blog" on imaxi, 12 September 2011
  www.imaxi.org
• NCDs: Public health policy at the mercy of corporate greed
  Boyd Swinburn in: National Times (Australia), September 2011
  http://t.co/W8FzXNc
  
• Informing the 2011 UN session on noncommunicable diseases: Applying lessons from the AIDS response
  Peter Lamptey et al. in: PLoS Medicine, September 2011
  http://bit.ly/qMFirq
• Tackling NCDs: a different approach is needed
  "Describing the rising prevalence of NCDs as a crisis makes for good drama, but misleads us into thinking that this problem is amenable to a quick fix. (...) Much has been learned from vertical disease-oriented programmes. Evidence suggests however that better outcomes occur by addressing diseases through an integrated approach in a strong primary care system."  Jan De Maeseneer et al. in: The Lancet, September 2011
  http://www.thelancet.com - payment or subscription required
• Non-Communicable Diseases: Will industry influence derail UN summit?
  Deborah Cohen in: BMJ, August 2011
  www.bmj.com
• UN high level meeting on non-communicable diseases: an opportunity for whom? David Stuckler et al. in: BMJ, August 2011
  www.bmj.com or PDF on www.wphna.org/downloadssept2011
• Framing international trade and chronic disease
  R Labonte et al. in: Globalization and Health, July 2011
  www.globalizationandhealth.com
  
• Expectations for the United Nations high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases
  Devi Sridhar et al in: WHO Bulletin, July 2011
  www.who.int/bulletin/
  
• Bringing African priorities to global action on NCDs
  Rene Loewenson in: Health Diplomacy Monitor, June 2011, P. 15-18 (pdf)
  www.ghd-net.org
  
• UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases: addressing four questions
  Robert Beaglehole et al. in: Lancet (2011)
  http://bit.ly/lXnNGg - see also: http://bit.ly/i2tFih
• Rethinking health-care systems: a focus on chronicity
  Pascale Allotey et al. in: The Lancet (2011)
  http://bit.ly/gONiYQ
• Getting the politics right for the September 2011 UN High-level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases
  Devi Sridhar et al., SCIS report (2011, pdf)
  http://csis.org/files/
  
• Raising the priority of preventing chronic diseases: A political process
  Robert Geneau et al. in: The Lancet (2010)
  www.thelancet.com
• The hope and the promise of the UN Resolution on non-communicable diseases
  George Alleyne, David Stuckler, Ala Alwan in: Globalization & Health (2010, PDF)
  www.globalizationandhealth.com
• Health transition in Africa: practical policy proposals for primary care
  D Maher et al. in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2010)
  www.who.int/bulletin
  
• Where have all the donors gone? Scarce donor funding for non-communicable diseases
  Rachel Nugent and Andrea B. Feigl, CGDev Working Paper 228 (2010)
  www.cgdev.org

• NCDnet - Global Noncommunicable Disease Network
  "The NCDnet (Global Noncommunicable Disease Network) is a voluntary collaborative arrangement comprised of United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organizations, academia, research centres, nongovernmental organizations, and the business community"
  www.who.int/ncdnet
  

• NCD Alliance
  "We are an informal alliance of four international federations (IDF, UICC, worldheart, The Union) representing the four main NCDs outlined in the World Health Organization’s 2008-2013 Action Plan for NCDs: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory disease."
  www.ncdalliance.org
• NCD Alliance: Common Interest Group
  The NCD Alliance Common Interest Group (CIG) has been established to create a powerful network group of like minded NGOs who wish to work together to achieve the NCD Alliance six key objectives: (1) NCD national plans for all (2) Improved lifestyles (3) Strengthened health systems (4) Global access to affordable and good quality medicines (5) A tobacco free world (6) Human rights for people with NCDs
  www.ncdalliance.org/cig
• WHO Cluster: Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH)
  www.who.int/nmh
  
• WHO Department: Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion (CHP)
  www.who.int/chp
• WHO Regional Offices: control of chronic, noncommunicable diseases (Overview)
  www.who.int/chp/about/regions

• United Nations High-level Meeting on noncommunicable disease prevention and control (UN NCD Summit)
  New York, 19-20 September 2011
  www.who.org
• WHO global forum: Addressing the challenge of noncommunicable diseases.
  Moscow, 27 April 2011
  www.who.int/nmh/events
  
• WHO Europe: Regional high-level consultation on non-communicable diseases, 25-26 November 2010 in Oslo
  www.euro.who.int
• WHO: Informal dialogue with the NGO sector on the way forward to the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Non-communicable Diseases
  Geneva, 1 November 2010 (Report, PDF)
  www.medicusmundi.org
  
• The emerging burden of chronic diseases and its impact on developing countries
  15–16 April 2010, Copenhagen (Conference Report, World Diabetes Foundation, PDF)
  www.worlddiabetesfoundation.org
• NCDnet: First Global Forum
  24 February 2010, Geneva
  www.who.int/ncdnet/events