FROM IDEAS TO ACTION: Accelerating the NCD response through health equity

This publication aims to provide community advocates with an introduction to what health equity means in the context of NCDs. It also aims to illustrate how a health equity lens can strengthen the NCD response, providing advocacy recommendations to address common barriers to equity and meet the needs of underserved people impacted by NCDs.

The Framework can be used together with the accompanying Practical Guide for NCD Community Advocates to inform and guide community-based country level advocacy initiatives that apply a health equity lens to NCDs. Together, these resources are intended to support NCD civil society and people living with NCDs in their work towards an equitable NCD response across the full continuum of care, to break down the entrenched inequities affecting the most vulnerable populations.