The Global Forum of the Alliance of Non-Communicable Diseases concluded its work yesterday, calling for the preparation of appropriate strategies for the current decade, to meet the challenges of non-communicable diseases.
In detail, the second main session, which was held within the activities of the second day of the Global Forum of the Alliance of Non-Communicable Diseases, focused on the humanization of the issue of non-communicable diseases, including the need to ask the community to take appropriate measures to confront the challenges of these diseases, And preparing appropriate strategies for the current decade.
The Forum of Friends of Cancer Patients organized the forum, under the slogan "Accelerating progress in implementing international commitments to prevent and reduce non-communicable diseases", in cooperation with the Alliance of Non-Communicable Diseases.
The session, which was titled "Demanding the implementation of a collective action plan to address non-communicable diseases through social movements capable of effecting change, and through those calling for change," stressed the importance of raising awareness of non-communicable diseases, and encouraging policymakers, civil society and the private sector to take action Occasion.
The session was chaired by the Secretary-General of the African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer Control, and a member of the Global Advisory Committee of our Views, Our Voices, Association of Non-Communicable Diseases Organization, South Africa, Quanel Assante.
The activities of the second day of the forum included the holding of six workshops, highlighting the actions that civil society can take to ensure that people suffering from non-communicable diseases are not marginalized, and provided an overview of universal health coverage.
• 6 workshops within the activities of the second day of the forum "Non-communicable diseases".