News: UN Summit on Non-communicable Diseases

HEALTH: Fighting non-communicable diseases

1 June 2012

IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis

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Health at the UN: Risks to Global Economic Growth

26 September 2011

Dr. Sudeep Chand

Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House

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A Must For UN Summit to Have a Fighting Chance Against NCDs: Getting Serious About Business Engagement and Cross‐Sector and GloCal Collaboration

16 September 2011

Janet Beauvais, Ebony Bertorelli, Nick Drager, Laurette Dubé, John Kirton, and Vural Ozdemir

McGill World Platform for Health and Economic Convergence 

In order for the UN Summit on NCD Prevention and Control to be successful, significantly more discussion is needed on multi-stakeholder involvement, such as that from non-governmental actors including businesses.

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UN Progress on Health to Hit a Wall of Domestic and Multinational Interest

16 September 2011

Dr Sudeep Chand

Centre on Global health Security / Chatham House

Leaders may be missing an opportunity to manage established risks to the global economy and livelihoods at the upcomming NCD Summit.

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Europe and U.S. accused of stalling U.N. disease talks

18 August 2011

Reuters

NCD Alliance accuses the U.S., Canada, and Europe of harming efforts to fight NCDs.

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The Path Forward on NCDs

22 September 2011

Thomas J. Bollyky, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development

Council on Foreign Relations

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Health Ministers Pledge to Tackle Non-communicable Diseases With Global Action

4 May 2011

Richard Smith

BMJ

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

July 2011

Devi Sridhar, J Stephen Morrison & Peter Piot

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

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Draft: UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs: Priority Language for the Outcomes Document, 4 July 2011

23 June 2011

NCD Alliance

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Europe and U.S. accused of stalling U.N. disease talks

17 August 2011

Kate Kelland

Reuters

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