⏰Rwandan Ambassador says it's time to #LeadOnNCDs 💪
🤝Visit to the Ambassador at Rwanda in Geneva to talk w/ him about the upcoming Global NCDA Forum ( #NCDAF2024 ) and the process towards the 2025 #UNHLM on NCDs. 
🤝Our Alison Cox & Prof Joseph Mucumbitsi, Chair of Rwanda NCD Alliance

🗨️Colombia's 5 main strategies to reduce🧂salt intake:
✅Taxation of ultra-processed foods
✅Regulatory policies for food industry
✅Information & communication
✅Education
✅Research - Dr Jaime Hernán Urrego, Vice Minister, MinSalud Colombia 🇨🇴 at our #WHA77 side event w/ Resolve to Save Lives👏

Great to join the Resolve to Save Lives @NCDAlliance #WHA77 side event discussing the potential for sodium reduction policies to address challenges posed by unhealthy diets and food environments this morning🧂

📢We urge Member States to pledge full, sustainable, and predictable financing for WHO’s budget for 2025-28, with flexible funding to ensure sufficient resources for NCD programmes.
Anne-Marie Andreasen, NCDA Policy & Advocacy Officer, reading our statement on the draft

I enjoyed speaking on a World Health Organization (WHO) #WHA77 roundtable about sustainable financing for #NCDs and #MentalHealth with Access Accelerated, NCD Alliance & World Diabetes Foundation. I look forward to the outcomes of the 2nd Global Dialogue as we drive towards significant outcomes in 2025! #ActOnNCDs

👏Leading by example
🗨️'Fund only any use if they have funds – the Philippines will be contributing financially and encourage others to do the same' - undersecretary of Health Emmie Liza Perez-Chiong of the Philippines at Health4LifeFund #WHA77 side event announcing that the

🗨️'NCDA hopes the Fund can deliver impactful & sustainable investment for NCDs and demonstrate the value of equity-driven responses that meaningfully engage & prioritise people living with #NCDs ' - Pubudu Sumanasekara, NCDA board member at the Health4LifeFund #WHA77 side event

'If you can mobilise civil society, bring together the health community, it is easier to subdue industry and their interference in the formulation of salt reduction policy,' says Ferdinant M. Sonyuy #wha77 Resolve to Save Lives #LeadOnNCDs #ActOnNCDs

Salt reduction policies work, says Bad Idea Ai: In only two years, Chile reduced the sodium purchased by 30% through labelling. #wha77 Resolve to Save Lives

Our President Monika Arora on salt reduction: 'Technical solutions and know how alone are not enough to drive progress and deliver impact. We absolutely need strong political will and leadership from governments.' #wha77 Resolve to Save Lives

#WHA77

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Civil society can bring a lot of awareness, but behaviour change will only be sustainable if there are supportive policies. Education at schools is not enough if schools are offering unhealthy food.” -Monika Arora, NCD Alliance. #WHA77

🎉 #WHA77 starts today!
🔗Keep an eye on our WHA page where we upload the latest useful resources for the NCD community, including:
✅the calendar of NCD side events
✅Advocacy Briefing
✅NCD Advocacy Priorities for the #UNHLM
✅Constituency statements
👉bit.ly/WHA77

Thank you to the NCD Alliance & World Heart Federation for their #WHA77 session at the #WorldHeartSummit focusing on the #NCD response and progress towards the 2025 targets. #HLM4 is on the horizon and I encourage you to get involved: who.int/teams/noncommu…
#LeadonNCDs #ActonNCDs

Thank you everyone for attending our event on NCD advocacy ahead of the #UNHLM on NCDs, happening within #WHS2024 🙏
👀Please check out our #WHA77 page with all the advocacy resources we will be talking about in the next couple of days at WHA77 👉bit.ly/WHA77

🗨️It is time to #LeadOnNCDs 💪
🗨️It is possible to accelerate as we are here today.
🗨️ But we cannot just look at heads to state. Nobody can do this alone - it really is all hands on deck. - Bente Mikkelsen World Health Organization (WHO) 👏 at our event on NCD advocacy for the #UNHLM on #NCDs , happening

👏Thank you Trevor Shilton, Board Member and Chair Advocacy Committee, World Heart Federation for joining our event on NCD advocacy priorities for the #UNHLM on #NCDs , happening within #WHS2024 ahead of #WHA77 . Thank you for highlighting the need for evidence-based action on

We were were happy to welcoming Ashley Bloomfield at our event on NCD advocacy priorities happening within #WHS2024 ahead of #WHA77 . Thank you for sharing lessons learned from New Zealand of how we can #ActOnNCDs 💪
According to him success story of tobacco control in New Zealand

🙏Thank you Dr Sabin Nsanzimana, Ministry of Health | Rwanda for joining our event on NCD advocacy priorities for the #UNHLM on #NCDs , happening within #WHS2024 ahead of #WHA77
👏Rwanda has been a true leader among countries in developing national policies aimed at tackling #NCDs 👏
Rwanda NCD Alliance

🗨️'We are living in an age of poly-crisis. Wars and conflicts raging, 300 m living in humanitarian crises, more refugees & displaced people than ever before. Destructive & catastrophic climate events now the norm in all corners of the world. W also have economic recession.