The United Nations Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) visited Mozambique from 2-6 November to support the African country’s efforts to tackle these diseases - principally cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers, and chronic respiratory diseases.In Mozambique, NCDs cause 23% of all deaths, and nearly 1 in 5 people die prematurely from these conditions, which are having an increasing adverse socioeconomic impact on the country.Mozambique is the third country in the WHO African Region to host a Joint Mission of the Task Force.
The mission included representatives from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Health