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September 26, 2025 Healthcare
World leaders expressed strong support for the first UN global political declaration aimed at ensuring a comprehensive response to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and promoting mental health. The document, agreed upon during a five-month intergovernmental process, will be submitted for consideration and final approval at the 80th session of the General Assembly in October 2025.
Heads of state and government and health ministers met yesterday at the Fourth High-level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health.
Target benchmarks
Mental disorders affect over a billion people. NCDs, including cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, cancer, and diabetes, remain the leading cause of death worldwide. In 2021, they claimed at least 43 million lives, including 18 million people under the age of 70. More than 80 percent of premature deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.
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At the same time, the incidence of diseases is increasing in all countries and affects all communities, making non-communicable diseases one of the most pressing problems of public health and sustainable economic development due to the increase in disability, the cost of health services, and the decline in labor productivity.
The Political Declaration sets global targets for 2030, including:
Reducing the number of tobacco users by 150 million; controlling hypertension for an additional 150 million people; expanding access to mental health services for an additional 150 million people.
New threats
The declaration takes into account the lessons of the pandemic. Covid-19 and addresses new global challenges by expanding the scope of NCDs. It now includes dental issues, lung health, childhood cancers, liver and kidney diseases, and rare diseases. Risk factors now include exposure to air pollution, the use of unsafe cooking fuels, exposure to lead and hazardous chemicals, and new threats posed by the digital environment—from excessive screen time and harmful content to misinformation and misinformation.
The document provides for increased regulation of e-cigarettes and new tobacco products, restrictions on the marketing of unhealthy foods to children, the introduction of front-of-package labeling on food products, and the elimination of trans fats.
The declaration places particular emphasis on the needs of people with NCDs and mental health conditions, as well as communities vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, small island developing States, and people living in humanitarian crises.
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