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Another round in the battle to end HIV/AIDS began on June 10, 2016, at United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, when the HIV community adopted targets and actions to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. For Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which bears the largest...
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Here is something you don’t see too often: a room full of delegates at the World Health Organization (WHO), taking a break from discussions to practice Tai Chi . But so went proceedings at the First Global Meeting of National NCD Program Directors and...
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03-23-2016
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In 2016, the world will move from a global commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to a focus on the much more ambitious and wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Whereas the health-related MDGs focused narrowly on particular...
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03-16-2016
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Developing countries are catching up to the rest of the world — and in this case it isn’t good news. Higher rates of non-communicable diseases are increasing demand for services to treat cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Taking care...
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02-25-2016
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On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, Health Affairs commemorated the release of its September issue, “ Noncommunicable Diseases: The Growing Burden ,” at a forum in Washington, DC, with support from Eli Lilly and Company, that featured authors from the issue...
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09-11-2015
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Cancer. Diabetes. Heart Disease. Alzheimer’s. Many people read about these chronic health conditions and imagine people in wealthy countries like the US and UK trying to manage them. The truth is that these diseases have gone global, disproportionately...
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09-10-2015
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The United States has been synonymous with innovation. Conducting research to better understand the world and to experiment with new ideas has been an important part of this country’s progress. However, at this critical juncture in history, when chronic...
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09-09-2015
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Throughout nearly all of human history, most people died from causes for which pathogens were to blame. But today, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, and chronic lung disease—are responsible...
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09-08-2015
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While growing wealth has reduced the burden of infectious diseases both globally and here at home, it has increased the risk factors for some chronic diseases. Heart disease, respiratory disease, cancer, diabetes, mental illness, and other noncommunicable...
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09-04-2015
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While growing wealth has reduced the burden of infectious diseases both globally and here at home, it has increased the risk factors for some chronic diseases. Heart disease, respiratory disease, cancer, diabetes, mental illness, and other noncommunicable...
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08-24-2015
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Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Mental Health, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Diabetes, Cancer, Community Health, Health Affairs events, NCDs, chronic diseases, heart disease, economics