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Guidelines on Meaningfully Involving People Living With Non-Communicable Diseases and Civil Society Organisations in Maharashtra’s NCD and Universal Health Coverageaction plans-August 2022

TWith an aim to augment multi-stakeholder engagement and to promote a people-centred and sustainably financed response to NCDs in India, HIA and Janaseva Foundation convened a multi-stakeholder working group on NCDs in Maharashtra. “Guidelines on meaningfully involving People Living with Non-Communicable Diseases and Civil Society Organisations in Maharashtra’s NCD and Universal Health Coverage Action Plans” was developed by HIA partners, people living with NCDs, CSO partners, and medical professionals who were part of the working group. These guidelines highlighted inclusion of people with lived experiences as key stakeholders in the national and sub-national response as one of the important strategy to tackle with growing NCD burden. The document also have action points in form of recommendations for multi-stakeholder working group, CSOs, and People living with NCDs.

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Guidelines on meaningfully involving People Living with Non-Communicable Diseases and Civil Society Organisations in Punjab’s NCD and Universal Health Coverage action plans-August 2022

With an aim to augment multi-stakeholder engagement and to promote a people-centred and sustainably financed response to NCDs in India, HIA and Strategic Institute for Public Health Education & Research (SIPHER) convened a multi-stakeholder working group on NCDs in Punjab. “Guidelines on meaningfully involving People Living with Non-Communicable Diseases and Civil Society Organisations in Punjab’s NCD and Universal Health Coverage Action Plans” was developed by HIA partners, people living with NCDs, CSO partners, and medical professionals who were part of the working group. These guidelines highlighted inclusion of people with lived experiences as key stakeholders in the national and sub-national response as one of the important strategy to tackle with growing NCD burden. The document also have action points in form of recommendations for multi-stakeholder working group, CSOs, and People living with NCDs.

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Advancing the Integration Agenda in India

This report on “Advancing the Integration Agenda in India” was developed by DakshamA Health, HRIDAY and HIA to make a case for prioritising integration and emphasize on how the bi-directional relationship between NCD and HIV and/or TB reduces quality of life, undermines treatment outcomes, and leads to premature mortality. The report makes recommendations for NCDs and HIV and/or TB and other disease integration as part of Universal Health Coverage, highlights cross learnings and shared opportunities for NCDs and HIV and/or TB communities to improve health outcomes.

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Micro-documentary on Non-Communicable Diseases and Air Pollution

#ActOnNCDsAndAirPollution is a micro-documentary developed by Healthy India Alliance/India NCD Alliance (HIA) under the NCD Prevention Accelerator Programme 2021-2023. Development of this micro-documentary is supported by the NCD Alliance, as part of the NCD Alliance’s partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. The intent of this micro-documentary is to highlight air pollution as a major risk factor for NCDs, and its linkages with NCDs and current programmatic and policy landscape of air pollution mitigation in India. The micro-documentary also provides recommendations to augment action on air pollution in India.

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Policy Brief on NCDs and Air Pollution

Policy brief on #AirPollution Mitigation: Essential for effective prevention and control of #NCDs in #India has been developed by Healthy India Alliance/India NCD Alliance (HIA) under the NCD Prevention Accelerator Programme 2021-2023. Development of this document is supported by the NCD Alliance, as part of the NCD Alliance’s partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. This policy brief explains the health and economic burden of air pollution in India and its linkages with major NCDs. The intent of this policy brief is to garner attention of key stakeholders towards the evidence-based recommendations in order to amplify action to mitigate this major risk factor for NCDs.

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Sensitisation Brief on NCDs and Air Pollution

Let’s Act on #NCDs and #AirPollution: A sensitisation brief has been developed by Healthy India Alliance/India NCD Alliance (HIA) under the NCD Prevention Accelerator Programme 2021-2023. Development of this document is supported by the NCD Alliance, as part of the NCD Alliance’s partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. This sensitisation brief aims to sensitise general population by providing an overview of sources of air pollution, linkages of air pollution and NCDs and key measures to tackle this risk factor. The brief also highlights the need of meaningful involvement of citizens and communities in air pollution mitigation strategies.

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Mapping of existing meaningful involvement/community engagement in India’s Noncommunicable disease space and beyond

This mapping exercise was conducted under the NCDA’s Advocacy Institute NCDs and UHC Accelerator Programme 2021-2022 (Year 2). The goal of the project was to accelerate the agenda of people living with NCDs, through strategic multi-stakeholder advocacy and action, informed by the development of the Global Charter on Meaningful Involvement of People Living with NCDs. In order to inform the strategic advocacy efforts, post the release of the Global Charter, HIA conducted this mapping of past examples of meaningful involvement within and outside the NCD landscape in India to documenting strategies and pathways of meaningful involvement adopted by other health and/or non-health movements in India.

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Situational Analysis Report on Non-Communicable Diseases and Air Pollution in India

This Situational Analysis Report on Non-Communicable Diseases and Air Pollution has been developed by Healthy India Alliance/India NCD Alliance (HIA). The intent of this Report was to build a narrative around air pollution as a complex risk factor across all NCDs in addition to being a threat to the climate and environment. It highlights the current policy and programmatic landscape in India, with respect to multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder action on air pollution mitigation. It also provides recommendations to scale up multi-pronged efforts to address air pollution as a public health and environmental challenge in India.

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Accessing Digital Healthcare Services During COVID-19 by People Living with Non-Communicable Diseases: Experiences from Maharashtra,India

In 2021-22, the Healthy India Alliance along with Janaseva sought to advance the need for a people-centred National NCD response, within the UHC and COVID-19 contexts. In order to do so, they undertook key Stakeholder Dialogues and conducted a Virtual Consultation in Maharashtra that fed into the development of state level report on “Accessing Digital Healthcare Services during COVID-19”, in Maharashtra. This report provides an overview of activities at the sub-national level and derives learnings from Maharashtra that maybe built into a broader context and agenda-setting on how to actually meaningfully involve People Living with NCDs in healthcare policies, programmes and decision making.

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Accessing Digital Healthcare Services During COVID-19 by People Living with Non-Communicable Diseases: Experiences from Punjab, India

In 2021-22, the Healthy India Alliance along with SIPHER (Strategic Institute for Public Health Education and Research) sought to advance the need for a people-centred National NCD response, within the UHC and COVID-19 contexts. In order to do so, they undertook key Stakeholder Dialogues and conducted a Virtual Consultation in Punjab that fed into the development of state level report on “Accessing Digital Healthcare Services during COVID-19”, in Punjab. In Punjab, the report was released by the State Health Minister on World Health Day 2022. This report provides an overview of activities at the sub-national level and derives learnings from Punjab that maybe built into a broader context and agenda-setting on how to actually meaningfully involve People Living with NCDs in healthcare policies, programmes and decision making.

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The India Advocacy Agenda of People Living With NCDs

We are all affected by noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), as these conditions do not discriminate against age groups, gender and socio-economic status. Despite their preventable nature, NCDs still continue to affect us, both physically and mentally. For long, we, People Living with NCDs (PLWNCDs), have been absent from discussions about our health. We have had enough. We cannot let our conditions define who we are. Let us tell the world that we envision healthy communities!

NCD CIVIL SOCIETY ATLAS National and Regional NCD Alliances in Action

An effective whole-of-society approach to the NCD response requires a vibrant and mobilized civil society capable of delivering on its main roles. National and regional NCD alliances bring together civil society organisations to work together towards a shared agenda to create awareness, improve access, advocate for action and ensure accountability.

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Needs and priorities of People Living With Noncommunicable Diseases (PLWNCDs) in India during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

India has reported 785996 active cases as of COVID-19 with 65288 deaths and 2839882 recoveries (September 1, 2020; MoHFW website).Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and co-morbidities, specifically chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes are major risk factors for developing severe manifestations of COVID-19. As per data available on the website of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (MoHFW, GoI), more than 70% of deaths from COVID-19 are due to co-morbidities. The COVID-19 pandemic has had widespread health impacts, revealing the particular vulnerability of those with underlying conditions.

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NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (NCDs) IN INDIA

NCDs have been included as an independent target within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 3 – Health), which called for one-third reduction in premature mortality from non communicablediseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being by 2030.

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The India Advocacy Agenda of People Living With NCDs HEALTHY INDIA

Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) are the most common cause of death and disability around the world, accounting for over 70% of all deaths. They are a major threat to health and development in this century and their prevalence-along with the suffering-continues to increase exponentially.The five major NCDs: cancer, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases,diabetes and mental health conditions are majorly caused due to five major risk factors:alcohol use, tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and air pollution.

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INDIA CIVIL SOCIETY STATUS REPORT 2016-2017

India is currently faced with the dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases, causing damaging effects to the health and development of the country. Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), including cancers, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes account for 62% of the annual deaths in India. Most NCDs are attributable to four common risk factors – tobacco and alcohol use, unhealthy diets and physical inactivity. Tobacco use is the single, common risk factor for the four NCDs that are most prevalent in India. Every year, nearly 13.5 lakh Indians die from tobacco related diseases- over 3.5 lakh deaths from smokeless tobacco use and nearly 10 lakhs from smoking. In public hospitals, 25% of all hospitalizations are attributable to NCDs and India stands to lose over 4 trillion dollars before 2030 due to NCDs and mental health conditions. The growing burden of NCDs in India threatens sustainable development in the region calling for urgent and affirmative action on prevention, early detection, treatment and rehabilitation for all.

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TOBACCO USE IN INDIA: AN IMPEDIMENT TO NCD PREVENTION AND CONTROL

In the Indian context, with respect to the four major NCD risk factors, the tobacco control movement has been the strongest,particularly due to legislative regulation through the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA). This is also true for civilsociety engagement through effective Government-CSO partnership and monitoring/advocating for policy development and enforcement. The tobacco control movement has also effectively percolated to the sub-national levels in states and districts. Thismodel provides a valuable benchmark for augment civil society action for overall NCD prevention and control.

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