Unaffordable Health Costs? We're Sick of it! UHC Day 2025

Unaffordable Health Costs? We're Sick of it!
UHC Day 2025 

With only five years remaining to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the world remains significantly off track to achieve the 2030 Agenda. More than half the world’s population still lacks access to essential health services. And a quarter of people face financial hardship when paying for health care out of their own pockets, often at the expense of food, education, or housing. 

The 2025 campaign theme, Unaffordable health costs? We’re sick of it!, focuses on the lived experience behind these statistics, reminding government decision-makers that unaffordable health costs are making our communities poorer and sicker and holding us back on all of the Sustainable Development Goals. 

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Get Engaged! Register Now for our Last Advocacy Webinar of 2025, on 10 December

Please join NCDA for our last advocacy webinar of 2025. We'll give an overview of the year in NCD policy, including the latest on the Political Declaration of HLM4 and the impact of the Global Week for Action. We'll also look ahead to 2026, including the next WHO Executive Board meeting, with a focus on implementation.

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BLOG: When Momentum Meets Implementation —  NCDs at the WHO Regional Committees

In a year shaped by the UN High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (HLM4), the 2025 WHO Regional Committee Meetings (RCMs), held from August to October, offered a crucial opportunity to carry global commitments into regional decision-making spaces. With most RCMs taking place in the weeks following the HLM4, attention quickly turned to what implementation would look like on the ground.

Read the full blog here