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HLM4 NCD&MH positions

July 1, 2025

The negotiations towards a Political Declaration of the Fourth UN High Level Meeting on Noncommunicable diseases and Mental Health will progress through July 2025. These proposed comments and suggestions from the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance (GAPA) refers to specific sections of the Zero Draft document but with relevance for later iterations as well.

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Indigenous People’s policy position on alcohol harm

May 27, 2025

Working together with the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) Indigenous Working Group, GAPA has contributed to the first ever International Indigenous policy position on alcohol harm. The policy document was launched at a side event to the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva on 24th May.

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GAPA Policy Position 4th UNHLM NCDs 2025

February 26, 2025

For the upcoming United Nations High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (UNHLM NCDs) in September 2025 GAPA wants to bring these particular issues to the attention of Member States.

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Indigenous-led aspirations for effective alcohol policy

November 5, 2024

Indigenous peoples worldwide experience significant and intergenerational alcohol-related harm and inequity. GAPA’s interim policy statement in support of Indigenous-led aspirations for effective alcohol policy is the outcome of the space provided at GAPC 2023 for Indigenous peoples to connect, discuss shared and unique issues, and identify a way forward.

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SDG indicator review submission

August 19, 2024

In the IAEG-SDGs 2025 Comprehensive Review of the SDG indicators, GAPA made a submission in response to the proposal by the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD) to amend indicator 3.5.2 (alcohol per capita consumption (APC)) with prevalence of heavy episodic drinking (HED) and alcohol-related morbidity and mortality.

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GAPA submission on NCDs 2024

May 27, 2024

In May 2024 the World Health Organisation conducted an online hearing to inform the recommendations to be included in the report of the WHO Director-General to the World Health Assembly (WHA) 2025 in preparation for the fourth High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases to be held in September 2025. In the consultation GAPA made the following submission.

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GAPA concerns over WHO Foundation gift acceptance policy

March 8, 2024

In 2021 the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance (GAPA) wrote a letter to the CEO of the newly formed WHO Foundation, formed to enhance funding of the World Health Organization. GAPA expressed concerns about the WHO Foundation's gift acceptance policy.

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106 community leaders call on WHO to stop closed-door meetings with alcohol lobbyists

May 24, 2023

A group of 106 community and public health leaders from 60 countries and six continents are calling on the World Health Organization (WHO) to stop its closed-door meetings with alcohol lobbyists, which allow companies that profit from alcoholic products to have unprecedented access to leaders who are responsible for advancing global health.

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GAPA network raises concerns over WHO interaction with alcohol industry

April 18, 2023

In early April the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance and Regional Alliances sent a letter to the Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, raising concerns about the WHO interaction with alcohol industry.

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GAPA welcomes evidence update on the most effective alcohol policy strategies to protect public health

December 2, 2022

GAPA welcomes the third edition of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity, written by an international team of addiction scientists and representing more than a decade of new research, explaining why alcohol policy is needed, how it is made, and the impact it has on health and well-being.

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