A joint mission of the United Nations Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) visited Sri Lanka from 5-9 October to support the government in tackling NCDs - principally cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers, and chronic respiratory diseases.In Sri Lanka, NCDs cause more than three fourth of all deaths and nearly 1 in 5 people die prematurely from NCDs.Sri Lanka is the second country in the WHO South-East Asia Region to host a Joint Mission of the Task Force.The mission included representatives from the International Organization of Migration (IOM), International Labour Organization (ILO), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),