Stakeholders discuss NCDs, mental health concerns

Local and regional health officials are gathered in Bridgetown for a two-day meeting to ramp up efforts to tackle the issue of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health concerns.

During the Mobilising for 2025: A Caribbean Civil Society NCD Forum which is hosted by the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC), civil society representatives and other HCC stakeholders will discuss issues relating to NCDs, mental health and neurological and substance abuse disorders.

They will seek to identify progress and challenges and come up with considerations for the way forward for the Caribbean to help the region meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.4, which calls for a one-third reduction in premature mortality by NCD by 2030. (MM) ]]>