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The general trend about how to go about non-communicable disease,
has evolved dramatically over the last 15 years.
This slides here shows the first global strategy that was issued
by the World Health Organization in 2000, and gave a vision on how to
address the non-communicable disease along three pillars.
So the lesson was decrease risk factor through population-wide
intervention and healthcare, to address patients, or persons,
with cardiovascular disease or risk factor, who need to be treated.
They after, they have been sending out documents and events that have changed
the landscape for non-communicable disease prevention and control.
I mentioned just two here.
There was a meeting in 2011 in New York.
It was called the UN High level Meeting on Non-communicable Disease Prevention and
Control, which was held at the General Assembly in New York in September 2011,
and from that meeting, a document came out which is called
the UN Political Declaration on Non-Communicable Disease.
This document is extremely important.
It was the second time that the United Nations would address
non-communicable disease, recognizing that non-communicable
disease were both critically-important health problem.
As well as a critically-important development problem for all countries,
and particularly, low and middle-income countries.
This declaration sets the stage and the steps that need to be taken.
Now, this is the first time that these strategies have been identified and
formulated not only by experts, by medical experts, but also by heads of governments.
And that makes a big change, because this approach to
non-communicable disease now is not just an idea of some specialist,
but it's a politically-agreed movement worldwide.
And that event in 2011, had some follow-up that was scheduled,
inclusive different step to ensure that implementation is being done,
in all countries over time.
And one of these outcome was another meeting in 2014,
that was organized to evaluate progress done since 2011.
And to show further steps that would be needed until the objective of
a 25% reduction of noncommunicable disease is achieved in 2025.
This 2014 UN outcome document basically reiterated what was said in 2011.
And again, it shows and documents the different intervention
that countries need to implement, if the goal of a reduction
of non-communicable disease is to be achieved in 2025.
And let's just me show in this slide,
that several documents have been issued since 2000 up to now.
And different steps are already scheduled up to the year 2025, and even 2030.
So this is just to say that the global agenda and the global policy for
non-communicable disease, is very well organized and
includes very clear steps that countries are now expected
to achieve and to deliver a certain number of outcomes.
Among these outcomes and expectations, and that comes again, from the United Nations
decision, and in particular, the one from the World Health Organization.
There are nine global targets that have been established,
and that countries have to address by 2025.
One is a 25% decrease of noncommunicable disease by 2025,
and there are eight other targets.
And in the context of that module here, which is on high-reach strategies,
several of this nine targets, are related to high-risk strategies.
One is a 25% relative reduction of the prevalence of
hypertension by 2020, compared to 2010.