25 X 25 initiative

• India will likely miss reaching targets set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations-mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to reduce premature deaths from four major Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD), according to an analysis by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
• The premature mortality rate for four major non-communicable diseases (NCD) namely
  • cancer,
  • cardiovascular disease (CVD),
  • chronic respiratory diseases (CRD), and
  • diabetes, is projected to decrease by 13.9 per cent from 2010 to 2025 in India.
• Therefore, the country’s progress toward the WHO target of a 25 per cent reduction in premature mortality for the four NCDs by 2025, compared to 2010, will likely be missed by a considerable margin.

The “25 by 25 target” was outlined when the WHO adopted a global NCD monitoring framework in 2013