Ban calls on industry to play its full part in curbing non-communicable diseases
27 January 2011 With non-communicable diseases such as cancer, stroke and heart disease accounting for 60 per cent of all deaths, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the world’s businesses leaders to help curb the risk factors behind a scourge that is expected to increase by half in developing countries by 2030. “We cannot allow chronic diseases to even further amplify the health challenges faced by developing countries, especially when we know the solutions,” he told a plenary session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on combatting the illnesses, which every year kill 35 million people, half of…
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Ban calls on industry to play its full part in curbing non-communicable diseases
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