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World Leaders Unanimously Approve NCD Political Declaration
World leaders attending the first-ever U.N. High-level Meeting on Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) kicked off the summit on Monday by "unanimously approving a 'political declaration' meant to stem a rising tide of [NCDs], now the world's leading killer," CNN reports (Ariosto, 9/19). The declaration "call[s] for a multi-pronged campaign by governments, industry and civil society to set up by 2013 the plans needed to curb the risk factors behind the four groups of NCDs -- cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes," according to the U.N. News Centre.
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