The United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of NCDs (UNIATF) conducted a one week joint mission to the Philippines, 7-11 May 2018.Ten UN system agencies participated in the mission, with the objective to advocate a whole-of-government and whole-of-society response to NCDs.
The joint UNIATF mission also aimed to enhance the support of UN agencies, individually and through the UN Country Team, to the Government of Philippines to scale up the national multisectoral response to NCDs, in line with the WHO Global NCD Action Plan 2013-2020 and the Regional Action Plan.From 7 to 11 May 2018, three interrelated international missions took place in Philippines to support the country’s efforts to beat NCDs:The Joint United