At a global level, support should be given to the WHO to enable it to carry out its mandate in terms of the Global Strategy to Reduce Harmful Use of Alcohol and allied WHO resolutions, in particular with regard to providing technical assistance to low-and middle-income countries to develop and implement policies to reduce the burden of alcohol-related problems; seeing that public health interests regarding alcohol issues are taken into account in global trade agreements, the settlement of trade disputes, and decisions by international development agencies; and ensuring that transnational marketing or major international event marketing does not act against national policies with regard to alcohol advertising and promotion. For further information on evidenced based strategies that are likely to directly or indirectly impact on NCDs readers are referred to resources supported by WHO/PAHO [6;45].
