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Australia commits financial support to tackle NCDs

At the UN Summit on NCDs, the Australian Minister of Health, Nicola Roxon, committed to provide a further A$4million to the World Health Organization to implement its Action Plan for the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of NCDs.

Australia is also providing support to developing countries especially in the Pacific which has some of the highest rates of NCDs in the world. Recently, Australia announced a $25 million commitment to NCD control in the Pacific, focused on building the evidence base for effective interventions and cost-effective prevention strategies, as well as helping to address the wider social determinants of health.

Australia has also shown significant leadership towards reducing the tobacco death toll including a commitment to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products, which when introduced will remove one of the last remaining forms of tobacco advertising in Australia. Speaking at the UN High Level Meeting, Minister Roxon said "Australia is the first country to have taken this step. As a result, the Big Tobacco giants are fighting desperately through multi-million dollar advertising campaigns and threats of legal action". Australia announced today an additional A$700,000 to support the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC) - a move that will further assist countries to reduce the impact of tobacco on health.

Link to Minister of Health, Nicola Roxon's speech at the UN High-Level Meeting:
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ministers/publishing.nsf/Content/mr-yr...

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