Our
Purpose.
From healthcare advances to meaningful improvements in people's lives.
To close the distance between what healthcare makes possible and what people actually receive.
Advances that do not arrive.
The World NCD Action Forum is a not-for-profit, independent global platform working to ensure that advances in healthcare reach the people who need them.
Noncommunicable diseases are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Treatments, technologies and models of care are advancing rapidly. Yet for millions of people those advances remain out of reach, delayed by cost, geography, policy or the capacity of the health system around them.
WNCDAF exists to close that distance. We bring together governments, scientific societies, healthcare professionals, industry, researchers, patient communities and civil society, and we hold the work to a single standard: measurable action.