Published 26 May 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2102
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2102

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Aid agencies neglect non-communicable diseases, international health organisations warn

Tony Delamothe

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Non-communicable diseases account for 60% of deaths worldwide yet they attract minuscule attention from international aid agencies, which devote less than 1% of their health budgets to them, warn three international health organisations who have come together in an initiative to remedy this relative neglect.

Representing more than 700 national organisations between them, the International Diabetes Federation, the International Union Against Cancer, and the World Heart Federation are calling for the creation of a special envoy of the United Nations secretary general for non-communicable diseases and for a session of the UN general assembly to be devoted to the topic.

At a meeting to launch their joint initiative in Geneva last week, they argued that chronic diseases should be added to the millennium development goals. They also discussed changing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria into a global fund for health.

The organisations considered that a big . . . [Full text of this article]


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