The Pan American Forum on Non-Communicable Diseases (PAFNCDs)

Diana Gosálvez Prados — 8/11/2012

Short name:
PAFNCDs

Organization of reference:
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Practice description:

The Pan American Forum on Non-Communicable Diseases is a multi-stakeholder PLATFORM that:

Brings together government, private sector, academia, and civil society
Builds on CARMEN Network and the Regional Strategy on NCDs, and related mandates
Support Member States to implement the outcomes of the UN HLM on NCDs
Promotes sharing of information, dialogue, advocacy and identification of successful practices, as well as the development of new innovative partnerships to take action on agreed priority areas
Stimulates resource mobilization for the prevention and control of NCDs and the promotion of health.

Chronic conditions addressed:
All

Practice Goals:

Goals Prevention:: Funding for detection programs , Creates healthy environments , Promotes health and wellbeing in schools and early years , Promotes adecuate understanding levels on the community about the importance of prevention , Focuses on social inequalities
Goals Detection:: Promotes early intervention through primary health care measures , Shows new evidence on the importance of early detection, including guidelines of effective practices , Advances public education on the importance of early detection

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Mission

In response to the NCD Regional strategy and the UN HLM mandate, the PAFNCD will bring together government, the scientific and academic community, the private sector, the international organizations and civil society to raise awareness of and help promote new innovative initiatives and scale-up successful practices for the prevention and control of NCDs/chronic diseases and promotion of health at all levels.

Goals

Support Member States in achieving UNHLM mandates, and implementing the NCD strategy, through:

Advocacy: Raising NCDs to the highest level of political attention regionally and nationally
Building capacity for mobilizing resources and partners for the development of priority strategic alliances to prevent and control NCDs.

Starting date of practice:
1/01/2011

Ending date of practice:
Progress

Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

State/Province/Territory:
Disctrict of Columbia

City:
Washington, D.C.

Zip code:
20037

Web page:
http://new.paho.org/panamericanforum/

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