The UK Working Group on NCDs strongly supports the statements by both Action for Global Health and Bond in response to the UK Government’s devastating announcement today of the cut in the UK’s overseas development assistance budget from 0.5% to 0.3% of gross national income to fund increases in defence spending.

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Global progress on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has been limited and too slow. But change is possible, and this is an opportunity for the UK to lead. It is time to take action!

This new briefing from the UK Working Group sets out why.

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The UK Working Group on NCDs (UKWG) is pleased to present findings from a piece of work drawn up by members (the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases, NCD Child and the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance) focusing on a ‘life course approach’ to reducing the burden of non-communicable disease (NCD) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The full report is available for download at the foot of this post.

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