Letter and Report to the Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize, from the South African Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance
Please download and read the following two important documents:
- Letter to the new Minister of Health requesting urgent consultation and proposing important interventions in support of transition consistent with the SDGs and stewardship for people-centred health systems.
- Report to inform the Minister of Health, entitled “Moving forward taking NCDs into the SDG era with political will, policy coherence and stewardship”
We ask all Cancer Alliance Members to circulate the Report and Letter to the Minister to colleagues, boards and provincial government members. Please feel free to put them on your websites. The more places it is seen the more we will all be included. For convenience, you can link to this page, or refer directly to the documents by copying the link addresses above. (Right-click on the underlined links above and select Copy Hyperlink)
The report details the SANCDA position on UHC as being integral to NCDs equity. UHC is the big issue as noted in the report. We must become familiar with it.