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International Strategic Dialogue on Noncommunicable Diseases and Sustainable Development Goals [1]

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Date: 2022-07

Invitation message from the Regional Director

I have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the International Strategic Dialogue Meeting on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This high-level meeting, co-organized by the Government of Ghana, the Government of Norway and the World Health Organization will take place on Tuesday, 12 April 2022 in Accra, Ghana. The meeting will be in a hybrid format, in-person and virtual, as appropriate to country and travel context.

The meeting will bring leaders across WHO Member States; Heads of State and Government, business, and civil society to raise the priority accorded to the prevention and control of NCDs within the national SDG response in low- and middle-income countries. It will allow for an exchange of knowledge and ideas as well as raising the political visibility of Heads of State and Government who are providing a strategic leadership role in the prevention and control of NCDs to a global level, in particular in Africa.

The International Strategic Dialogue on NCDs and SDGs is a follow up to the commitments made by governments in Paragraph 17 of the Political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases to scale up efforts “to provide strategic leadership for the prevention and control of NCDs by promoting greater policy coherence and coordination through whole-of-government and health-in-all-policies approaches and by engaging stakeholders in an appropriate, coordinated, comprehensive and integrated, bold whole-of-society action and response”.

This meeting is a great opportunity especially for Africa to revisit the prioritization of NCD prevention and control in the national response to the SDGs in our countries, which has been held back by the outset of the Covid19 pandemic.

It is expected at the end of the International Strategic Dialogue to establish an Informal International Heads of State and Government Group (NCD Presidential Group) on the Prevention and Control of NCDs and; to launch an International NCD Compact 2022-2030 (living document).

I look forward to your in-person or virtual participation.

Thank you.

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