WHO Global Meeting to Accelerate Progress on SDG target 3.4 on NCDs and Mental Health

The World Health Organization is organizing the Global Meeting to Accelerate Progress on SDG Target 3.4 on Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health. The Meeting is hosted by the Government of the Sultanate of Oman.

The overarching goal of the Global Meeting it to accelerate the implementation of national responses to address NCDs and mental health conditions with a view to reduce premature mortality and scale up interventions to reach SDG target 3.4 by 2030. The Meeting will focus on sharing success stories and challenges in countries.

The objectives of the Global Meeting are to strengthen the capacity of national NCD Directors and Managers in order to:

• Implement a set of priority interventions that will put their countries on a sustainable path to attain SDG target 3.4 on NCDs and mental health by 2030;
• Fulfill the commitments made by Heads of State and Government in the Political Declarations of the UN General Assembly adopted in 2011, 2014 and 2018;
• Contribute to the “triple billion” targets for WHO’s NCD-related actions set out in the 13thGlobal Programme of Work.

The Global Meeting in Oman will provide an opportunity to all relevant stakeholders to come together in order to share experiences and come up with innovative collaborative ideas on how to scale up action against NCDs at country level.

VENUE:

Muscat, Oman
9-12 December 2019

Original source: WHO
Published on 20 August 2019