The President of Sri Lanka, the Ministers of Health of Barbados and the Russian Federation and representatives from Italy, Germany, Japan, and USA, joined the WHO Director-General during a meeting of the UN Inter-agency Task Force on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) to showcase how their national NCD efforts had benefitted from the Task Force and to pledge financial and political support to tackle NCDs.
Friends of the Task Force meet at UNGA
About UN Interagency Task Force on NCDs
New initiative launched to tackle cardiovascular disease, the world’s number one killer