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<b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> press-releases-bounces@lists.spc.int [mailto:press-releases-bounces@lists.spc.int]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>SPC Media<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 06, 2017 9:37 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SPC-News] WAKE UP! YOUTH PROJECT TO RAISE AWARENESS ON NCDs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Wake up! Youth project to raise awareness on NCDs</span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">6 April 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Suva, Fiji –
</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">The Pacific Community (SPC) and the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Pacific Office in Fiji are inviting youth in participating Pacific countries and territories to develop
and submit proposals for </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">video projects designed to sensitize the youth population on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Young people between 15 to 25 years old from Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Tonga, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna are eligible to enter the competition
which is co- funded by the Pacific Fund, SPC and UNDP. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">The five winning entries will have the opportunity to work with a professional production company and undertake special training in order to produce a broadcast
quality video based on their submitted concept.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">As the leading cause of preventable death and disability in the region,
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">NCDs, principally diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases as well as cancers, constitute a crisis of epidemic proportion with major implications for the future development of Pacific
countries and territories. </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">As increasing numbers of people develop one of these diseases in their thirties and forties, prevention must start at an earlier age.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Studies in the Pacific show that many adolescents are overweight with an increasing number becoming obese. In addition, some diseases such as diabetes
Type 2, which are usually only observed in adults, are now being diagnosed in teenagers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">“Unfortunately prevention projects addressing NCDs are rarely appealing to the adolescent population. Few are innovative, fewer engage or utilize visual
arts and social media and even fewer are developed by youth themselves which reinforces the misperception that NCDs are only diseases of the old age and do not concern young people,” said UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji Policy Specialist for HIV, Health and Development,
Ferdinand Strobel.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">“The SPC & UNDP initiative will see select groups of youth undergo training in health communication using video and will receive support from professionals to realize
their health promotion projects.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">
<span lang="EN-AU">Young people have a key role to play in building strong populations. By teaching young people to adopt healthy behaviours, we can reduce the early onset of non-communicable diseases,” said SPC NCD Officer, Solène Bertrand-Protat.</span></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">The initiative will also contribute to the development of skills and knowledge among participants and encourage engagement in youth to youth health promotion activities.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Acquired skills will include project management, basics of public health, audiovisual production, and health promotion messaging using technology (web and social
networks) which will provide benefits beyond the project as well as create a network of potential youth ambassadors for NCDs and invigorate exchange between youth from select Pacific Island countries and French territories around these issues.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">More information can be found here:
</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http://www.spc.int/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Call-for-proposals_Pacific-Youth-and-Health_2017.pdf&c=E,1,IM6z7ohd3EUrBmkhLDl8xe_1s-y9NVTkuHM2cOzjH2qjTroc29Dl6egalPPd0TVNGSt6IJ_m04BUzYmZnxqRaVQ402djr7d4odTuZEdnvLhvGGtW7quyg6LJ&typo=1">http://www.spc.int/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Call-for-proposals_Pacific-Youth-and-Health_2017.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Competition closes on 30 April.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Media contacts:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Solène<b>
</b>Bertrand-Protat, SPC Non-Communicable Disease Officer, </span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="mailto:soleneb@spc.int"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">soleneb@spc.int</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">
or +679 337 9380<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Emily Moli, Knowledge Communications Analyst, UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji, email:
<a href="mailto:emily.moli@undp.org">emily.moli@undp.org</a> or +679 322 7504<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Useful link:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http://www.pacific.undp.org&c=E,1,69RIP4qd2hssYj3MWtlxeeSI1xEZ3COyf-RD6wjFLkmiVIwlvsfjEoVLhoTnK_zEYTdIWE6zaHAz8okN-TSz-dn0JoIxWG-xqUekANrPXovMOvTJe_k,&typo=1">www.pacific.undp.org</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">
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