#ActOnNCDs

This week, we have published three new handy guides to help you as you plan your Global Week for Action on NCDs campaign activities: the Online/Public Events Guide, the Communications Guide, and Tips for Organising Small Yet Impactful Activities.  

The Global Week for Action on NCDs is coming up in September, so we are making our visual elements available to everyone with our Act on NCDs Branding Guidelines.

It’s not too early to start thinking about how you will participate for progress during the 2021 Global Week for Action on NCDs!

Ten NCD alliances have been awarded 2020 Act on NCDs Campaign Fuel Awards recognising their Global Week for Action on NCDs activities focusing on the theme of accountability, considering the COVID-19 context and meaningfully involving People Living with NCDs (PLWNCDs) & youth.

A report published this week by the NCD Alliance and Spectrum Research Consortium documents hundreds of examples of how unhealthy commodity industries are leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic, while undermining efforts to protect and promote health. 

Substantial progress has been made on the removal of harmful trans fat from food: 58 countries have introduced laws to date that will protect more than 3 billion people from the toxic fat by end of 2021.