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WHO's Chan Urges New Approach To Preventing, Fighting NCDs At Executive Board Meeting
"Countries need to change their current mindset to successfully tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the head of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said [Monday], adding that governments will need to explore new approaches to prevent and treat these diseases, which have quickly become one of the most pressing issues in public health," the U.N. News Centre reports (1/16). "In an opening speech to the annual WHO Executive Board meeting, Director-General Margaret Chan ... urged the 34-member board to tackle the root causes of non-communicable diseases," VOA News writes (Schlein, 1/16).
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