The 2025 UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs (UN HLM) is a historic opportunity to mobilise political leadership, increase investments, and generate commit to ambitious alcohol policy action to promote health and development for all. The current trends in alcohol consumption, harm, and policy indicate that the global target set for reducing population-level alcohol consumption will not be met by 2030. The 4th HLM on NCDs is a timely and critical opportunity to level up recognition of the need for a...| Movendi International
On September 25, 2025 Heads of State and Government will meet at the UN General Assembly to set a new global vision for NCDs prevention and mental health promotion - through what is meant to be an ambitious and achievable Political Declaration. But Movendi’s analysis reveals a serious threat: Alcohol industry interference has quietly erased proven, cost-effective alcohol policy solutions from the declaration - despite alcohol being the leading risk factor for death and disease among young p...| movendi.good.do
Alcohol industry language, no alcohol policy action: UN Political Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health risks becoming meaningless. Alcohol industry interference in the drafting of the political declaration of the fourth high-level meeting on NCDs and mental health has quietly erased proven, cost-effective alcohol policy measures - despite alcohol being the leading risk factor for death and disease among young people worldwide. While tobacco is treated with specificity and urgency, alcohol po...| Movendi International