This document discusses non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and NCD alliances. It notes that 57% of deaths in the Eastern Mediterranean region are due to NCDs like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Risk factors for NCDs like tobacco use, unhealthy diets, and physical inactivity are on the rise globally. In 2011, the UN held its first high-level meeting on NCDs which resulted in a political declaration and commitments to address the growing NCD burden. The document then discusses the role of the NCD Alliance, a civil society network, in supporting a global response to NCDs at national and regional levels including the formation of country-level alliances.

1. NCDs Alliances
The Way to go
Prof. Adel A El Sayed
Aswan Feb 2014

2. Introduction
• Communicable versus non-communicable
diseases NCDs.
• What NCDs?
• NCDs Alliances

3. 3 |
57%
30%
13%
0
500000
1000000
1500000
2000000
2500000
3000000
3500000
4000000
4500000
Deaths in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
( 2012)
Communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions
NCDs Injuries

4. 4 |
Deaths in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
The three highest burden countries, 2012
Communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions NCDs Injuries
82%
11%
7%
Tunisia
85%
4% 11%
85%
9%
6%
Egypt Lebanon
NCD country profiles, 2014

5. NCDs, 1-2 September 20155
Increased exposure to
risk factors
Noncommunicable diseases
Increasing health care costs; out-of-pocket
and catastrophic expenditurePoverty at
household level
Loss of
household
income
Socioeconomic costs of noncommunicable diseases
New perspectives
Globalization
Urbanization
Population ageing

6. NCDs, 1-2 September 20156
Modifiable causative risk factors
Tobacco use
Unhealthy
diets
Physical
inactivity
Harmful use of
alcohol
Noncommunicablediseases
Heart disease and
stroke    
Diabetes
   
Cancer
   
Chronic lung disease

Noncommunicable Diseases and
major lifestyle related risk factors

7. NCDs, 1-2 September 20157
– Risk factors are rising; action is uneven and
has major gaps
– Magnitude is progressively increasing;
health systems are already overwhelmed in
many countries
– Commitment is not always translated into
sustainable and effective action
NCD trends

8. 8 |
2011 Landmark
First High-level Meeting on NCDs
resulted in the 2011 UN Political
Declaration on NCDs (resolution
A/RES/66/2)
Road map of commitments included in the 2011 UN Political Declaration on NCDs

9. The global NCD response and
the role of civil society

10. The NCD Alliance
NCD Civil Society Action...
National and Regional Level
EMRO Sept. 2015 Meeting

11. Eg-NCDA
• Formation
• Members
• Application to Global NCDA membership