AstraZeneca, the British-drugmaker,  and Plan India, an NGO striving to improve the lives of children and young people, signed an MoU to expand the former’s  ‘Young Health Programme’ in the state of Karnataka after its success over the past 10 years in Delhi and Tamil Nadu. YHP aims to reduce the uptake of unhealthy behaviours in young people to improve their health outcomes as adults and help address the growing burden of Non Communicable Diseases on health systems. It  was first launched in Delhi in 2010 and over the past decade, has directly reached more than 460,000 young people with health information and trained more than 7,800 Peer Educators who have delivered numerous health promotion activities.  YHP has sof ar established 15 ‘Health Information Centres’ in Delhi, 2 in Chennai and will be launching 3 in Bangalore. In Karnataka, YHP aims to reach 50,000 adolescents and build a strong foundation in the first year.