WHO / NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES

A new report from the World Health Organizasion (WHO) calls for urgent action to address chronic diseases and mental health disorders. It demands high-level political commitment and the immediate scaling up of actions to address the epidemic of Noncommunicable Diseases, the world’s leading causes of death and ill health. WHO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:11
• Production Date: 1 June 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
• MAMS Id: 2167320
• Parent Id: 2167320
• Alternate Title: unifeed180601f

Description

STORY: WHO / NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES
TRT: 1:11
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 28 MAY 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / 31 May 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

28 MAY 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Various shots, exterior, WHO Headquarters

31 May 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Wide shot, WHO Director-General shaking hands with the President of Uruguay
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organizasion (WHO):
“The Heads of State and governments must take responsibilities for action on NCDs in their own countries. They must bring together all sectors and stakeholders to work together.”
4. Med shot, audience
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organizasion (WHO):
“The stronger systems based on the people centred primary care are the best way to prevent NCDs and to detect and to treat them at the earliest stage. We have long experience in managing diseases like HIV and TB using models of chronic care. And the reports note, these same models can be used to prevent and manage NCDs.”
6. Med shot, audience
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Zoleka Mandela, South African Writer and Activist:
“All women and men who are diagnosed with NCDs such as cancer ought to have equal opportunities for early diagnosis and access to treatment but millions of people in Africa and other developing countries are not afforded the opportunities to have an efficient health system.”
8. Wide shot, Tedros walking with President of Uruguay

Storyline

A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) Independent High-level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) calls for urgent action to address chronic diseases and mental health disorders. It demands high-level political commitment and the immediate scaling up of actions to address the epidemic of NCDs, the world’s leading causes of death and ill health.

Collectively, cancer, diabetes, lung and heart diseases kill 41 million people annually, accounting for 71 percent of all deaths globally, 15 million of which occur between the ages of 30 and 70 years. The report focuses attention on growing, but often neglected, challenges like mental disorders and obesity.

WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “the Heads of State and governments must take responsibilities for action on NCDs in their own countries. They must bring together all sectors and stakeholders to work together.”

He added “the stronger systems based on the people centred primary care are the best way to prevent NCDs and to detect and to treat them at the earliest stage. We have long experience in managing diseases like HIV and TB using models of chronic care. And the reports note, these same models can be used to prevent and manage NCDs.”

Zoleka Mandela, South African Writer and Activist, who is also a cancer survivor said “all women and men who are diagnosed with NCDs such as cancer ought to have equal opportunities for early diagnosis and access to treatment but millions of people in Africa and other developing countries are not afforded the opportunities to have an efficient health system.”

Fulfilling the promise of universal health coverage, to ensure all people everywhere can access quality health services without suffering financial hardship, is one of WHO’s top priorities. The Commission’s report will help guide countries as they make progress toward health for all and tackle both NCDs and infectious killers.

By calling on Heads of State and Government to take ultimate responsibility for NCDs, the report, which was also published simultaneously in the medical journal The Lancet, recognizes the need to ensure that health ministries have the influence they require to ensure the issue is backed with the political will and funding it merits.

On 27 September 2018, the United Nations General Assembly will host the Third High-level Meeting on NCDs in New York. The Commission’s report will help advise WHO as it prepares for this crucial occasion.

The Commission’s Co-chairs include the presidents of Finland, Sri Lanka and Uruguay, the Minister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation and Dr Sania Nishtar, a leading NCDs expert and advocate and a former federal minister of health from Pakistan. The Commission comprises health and development leaders from governments, civil society and business.