The United Nations Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) carried out a mission in Paraguay from 22 to 26 February 2016 to support the government in accelerating the implementation of actions to tackle NCDs - principally cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and associated risk factors.
NCDs cause almost three quarters of all deaths with nearly 1 in 5 people dying prematurely from NCDs in Paraguay.At the moment, more than one third of adult males in the country are tobacco users and almost half of adult males report heavy episodic drinking.