NCD Hard Talks is a series of webinars which provide a platform to connect, share, respect and learn from exceptional NCD related initiatives from around the world. On 4 May 2023, the webinar focused on the SEAHEARTS initiative of the South East Asia Region which brings together tobacco control, salt reduction, elimination of artificial transfats along with hypertension and diabetes coverage and control through primary health care.
The webinar titled SEAHEARTS for accelerating CVD control: All Hands on Deck! was conducted successfully with 550 registrations from 93 countries. The inputs of global and country leaders, made it clear that SEAHEARTS is a platform where the efforts are collaborative across sectors, focused, unified and evidence based. Encouraging results have already been achieved indicating that with further acceleration the Region will be successful towards reaching the regional and global NCD goals.