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NCD Draft Declaration Lacks Specific Targets, Calls For Nations To Adopt Recommendations For Reducing Chronic Disease Deaths
"World leaders at a meeting of the United Nations on Monday will agree to a deal to try to curb the spread of preventable 'lifestyle' diseases," including heart disease, cancers and diabetes, also known as non-communicable diseases (NCDs), "amid concern that progress is already being hampered by powerful lobbyists from the food, alcohol and tobacco industries," the Guardian reports. "The scale and disastrous potential of these diseases has led the U.N. to call only its second high-level summit on a health issue on Monday -- the first was over AIDS in 2001. Months of negotiation have led to a draft declaration [.pdf] that will be signed at the summit," the newspaper writes (Boseley, 9/16).
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