We Support EVERY WOMAN EVERY CHILD

Every Woman Every Child is an unprecedented global movement, spearheaded by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to mobilize and intensify global action to improve the health of women and children around the world and advance the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are a threat to global health and development. The 2014 NCD Child Conference will provide an important opportunity to promote existing NCD-related commitments to the Every Woman Every Child movement and also to announce new NCD-related commitments that will help protect and promote the health of future generations.

If your organization would like to announce a new NCD-related commitment to the Every Woman Every Child movement at the NCD Child Conference in Port-of-Spain 20-21 March 2014 please contact us at ncdchild@willorganise.com.au so that we can promote this exciting news.

 

Please also consider submitting an abstract outlining the details of your commitment. CLICK HERE to go to the abstract page

Women’s and Children’s Health and Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs)

The Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health recognizes that women’s and children’s health is inextricably linked to the prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease and respiratory disease.

NCDs affect women and children differently, and can thwart household income and national economic growth due to the high rates of illness, disability and death that these diseases cause.

For example, in low income countries, 1 in 10 children die before the age of five, partly due to a diversion of household income away from children and towards NCD risk factors such as smoke inhalation and unhealthy eating habits.

Cervical cancer, the most common cancer affecting women in low and middle income countries, kills hundreds of thousands of women a year, yet is preventable by vaccination, screening and early treatment.

Nearly 40 Every Woman Every Child partners have focused their commitments on NCDs, pledging to make crucial interventions in the areas of disease prevention, treatment, and care; policy development; and health system strengthening.

For more information, please visit www.everywomaneverychild.org.