Synergies for NCDs and CDs in a post 2015 context

Director of DevelopmentSusanne Volqvartz

The Danish NCD Alliance

A people centeret health approach

• “I call on everyone to play their part. Success will come when we focul our attention and resources on people, not their illnesses; on health, not disease. With the right policies, adequate and fairly distributed funding, and a relentless resolve to deliver to those who need it most – we can and will make a life-changing difference for current and future generations” Ban Ki-moon

Global burden of disease

Top five causes of global DALYs

1. Ischaemic Heart disease2. Lower respiratory infections3. Stroke4. Diarrhea5. HIV/AIDS

Leading five risk factors for poor health

1. High Blood pressure2. Tobacco smoking excluding

second hand smoke3. Alcohol Use4. Household Air Prollusion

from solid fuel5. Diet low in fruits

Health goals in the Post-2015 Health Agenda

Overarching health development goal

• Maximizing health at all stages of life• Health challenges in the post-2015 era (specific goals):• • Accelerating progress on the health MDG (4,5 and 6) agenda• • Reducing the burden of major NCDs• • Universal Health Coverage (should be the health sectors key

contribution

The Post 2015 agenda should support synergies between health and other goals

• Vital synergies between health and education, climate change and other

environmental threats, effects of population growth, urbanization, rapid transitions in disease, disability, will affect progress on health

• Health in social, economic, political, environmental and cultural sectors

• Equity must be hard-wired into the new agenda• Human rights• People centered• • Greater citizen participation. Civil society and community dimensions of “county

ownership” are vital for both strong policy development and for holding stakeholders accountable for progress.

NCD prevention photo album

Results

Growing your own vegetables strategy

Be physical active!

1,9 millioner people dies year of smoke from in door fires. A majority of these deaths occur among women and children.

We can start the Post 2015 agenda among ourself

• Tax policy can combine taxes on tobacco, alcohol, sugar and fat and a larger revenu to health sector

• Health curriculum in schools will benefit health in general

• Urban planning can benerif both CDs and NCDs and prevent accidents

• Farming policies can favor healthy products and hamper unhealthy products

Synergies in health sector collaboration

Eksempler:1. Cancers and HIV/AIDS • Cervical Cancer (Pink Ribbon and Red Ribbon)• Kaposis Sarcoma AIDS relateret kræft2. Cardiovascular diseases/diabetes and

HIV/Aids3. Diabetes and tuberculosis

Synergies in health sector collaboration

4. Rheumatic Heart Disease5.Maternal and reproductive health6. Health sector development7. Disability (NCDs account for 2/3 of lived years

in LMIC)

Nyangata, cervical cancer survivor

• Uniting in the overall fight for health in all policies • Civil society and NGOs as duty bearers like

governments • We should make sure that our own activities and

services are people centered and right based• We don’t want to save a person from HIV/Aids in

order to let him/her dye from cancer, heart disease or diabetes or visa versa

• Let’s start now by integrating communicable and Noncommunicable diesases in our own programs

• Let’s join hands in the political fight for health in all policies

Thank you