The Cameroon NCD Alliance is pleased to announce that it is one of the 19 Civil Society organizations receiving the Solidarity Fund from the NCD Alliance to support advocacy and communications efforts to promote the needs of peoples living with chronic non-communicable diseases and prioritize NCD prevention control as a key step towards equity, resilience and recovery from the COVID -19 pandemic.

The first SF in 2020 was used to conduct a study on the state and role of NCDs during the COVID-19, examining how the Cameroon response considered people living with NCDs.

Thanks to the global NCD Alliance and its partners, the Cameroon NCD Alliance will use this opportunity to continue to ensure that the needs, challenges and priorities of as well as meaningful engagement and involvement of people living with NCDs in the Cameroon response to this pandemic remains everyone’s business especially as we recover from the pandemic.

About the Cameroon Civil Society NCD Alliance
CACSNA focuses on empowering civil society organizations working on NCDs to advocate at both local and national levels through capacity building, unified action and stakeholder consultations.
The alliance was created in 2018 and promotes evidence-based advocacy and a strong national consensus on what is priority for the attainment of NCD prevention and control targets.

About the Global NCD Alliance
The global Alliance is a registered NGO based in Geneva Switzerland, dedicated to supporting a world free from preventable suffering, disability and death caused by NCDs with over 300 members in 80 Countries. The 2021 Solidarity Fund has been made possible thanks to generous financial contributions of NCD Alliance’s supporters: The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, Access Accelerated, AstraZeneca, ECOBANK Foundation and Viatris.

More about the Solidarity Fund and other winners across Africa can be found at: https://ncdalliance.org/news-events/news/ncd-alliance-announces-2021-winners-of-civil-society-solidarity-fund-in-response-to-covid-19 

For any Media interviews or contact; Please reach out to the Cameroon civil society NCD Alliance at:

Contact email: ferdinantmbiy@recdev.org

Tel: 674733730

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