- Implementation and monitoring of national NCD action plans through public-private partnerships to ensure effective responses
- Advocacy and capacity building as well as development
- Effective regulation and Improving surveillance systems for quality data
- Involving civil society and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in all responses with leadership from the Ministries of Health as well as developing regional strategic plans
- Partnering in funding to reduce vertical funding and programmes –HIV funding that does not necessarily incorporate cancer and other NCDs.
- A call by Member States for a balance between funding towards communicable and non- communicable diseases.
- Integrated approaches to pull together scarce resources, financial and in terms of manpower.
- Support for country management information systems to collect quality data on NCDs through WHO’s tools for adaptation
- Encouraging African governments to collect data and to allocate resources for the management of NCDs
- The role of governments in regulating local prices for medicines to prevent price inflation at the local level
- The role of the private sector as critical and worthy of emphasis in the establishment of public-private partnerships and collaboration.
- Integration NCDs in existing responses with stronger coordination
- Conducting STEPS Surveys to show the magnitude of the risk factors for NCDs
- Increased supervision and training of supervisors, and capacity building for care providers
- Providing protocols and M&E tools
- Multi sectoral partnerships and decentralising services for NCDs
- Application of the WHO-PEN together with other holistic interventions
- Strengthening community participation to leverage impact
- Global Action Plan to reflect realities on the ground in developing countries and Regional specificities when dealing with NCDs
- Ensuring there are voices from patients for more effective advocacy.
Emergent recommendations from WHO-AFRO meetings in Nairobi
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