BANGLADESH MULTISECTORAL ACTION PLAN FOR PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES 2018–2025

Summary

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which include cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases and cancers, have become a global problem accounting for more than 68% of total global deaths. Due to their chronic nature, NCDs require protracted treatment resulting in significant socioeconomic and treatment costs. In Bangladesh, NCDs are a serious and urgent public health problem. Currently three quarters of the population is exposed to two or more modifiable NCD risk factors – 5% of the adult population is diabetic and 23% is hypertensive. While NCDs affect all economic groups, the poor are disproportionately affected leading to a vicious cycle of disease, poverty and non-productivity.

MULTISECTORAL ACTION PLAN FOR NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

This national action plan will be a priority blueprint for key stakeholders, and includes an operational plan from 2018 to 2021 in alignment with the 7th Five Year Plan and the 4th Health, Nutrition and Population Strategic Investment Plan (HNPSIP) of the Government of Bangladesh. The action plan builds on the successes of implementation of past NCD control and prevention programmes in Bangladesh.