Meeting Overview: United Nations high-level meeting on NCDs Sep 2011

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Meeting Overview: United Nations high-level meeting on noncommunicable disease prevention and control
Date: 19-20 September 2011
Place: New York, USA

Background: “Noncommunicable diseases – or NCDs – like heart attacks and strokes, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory disease account for over 63% of deaths in the world today. Every year, NCDs kill 9 million people under 60. The socio-economic impact is staggering. Global leaders will meet at the United Nations in New York from 19-20 September 2011 to set a new international agenda on NCDs…This is only the second time in the history of the UN that the General Assembly meets on a health issue (the last issue was AIDS). The aim is for countries to adopt a concise, action-oriented outcome document that will shape the global agendas for generations to come.”

Overview
Overview brochure
pdf, 331kb
Q&A about the meeting
pdf, 250kb

http://www.who.int/nmh/events/un_ncd_summit2011/en/index.html