Saturday, July 02, 2011

Expectations for the UN high-level meeting on NCD



Expectations for the United Nations high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases

Devi Sridhar a, J Stephen Morrison b & Peter Piot c

a. University of Oxford, Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JD, England.
b. Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, DC, United States of America.
c. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, England.
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Correspondence to Devi Sridhar (e-mail: devi.sridhar@politics.ox.ac.uk).
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2011;89:471-471. doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.089292
The United Nations General Assembly’s decision to convene a high-level meeting on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide in September 2011 is a major, timely opportunity to elevate chronic diseases onto the global stage and to encourage action by individual governments.1 Just as the 2001 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS was a pivotal moment in the global response to AIDS, there is hope that the September session on NCDs will become an historic rallying point./.../
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1 comment:

  1. Berenice2:51 PM

    Great initiative and I wish every success to this meeting. However, I do hope that, this time, due importance will be given to the serious problem of occupational injuries, which kill more than two million workers every year around the world. One group of non-communicable diseases - occupational diseases - constitute one of the great silent epidemics, and are very much underestimated, hence, often neglected. These diseases could and should be avoided through perfectly known preventive interventions in the workplace. There is a lack of political will in this respect, which results from insufficient awareness among decision-makers on the causes of occupational diseases, their disastrous human and economic consequences, and the possibilities for their prevention.
    Berenice Goelzer

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