Tag Archives: Non-Communicable Diseases

A series published in The Lancet last Wednesday found that adolescents today face greater risks to their physical and mental health than in the past.  The success of childhood survival programs and a greater focus on children’s health means that more youths are entering adolescence.  Although this is clearly outstanding news, it means that the programmatic […]

The UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) was held last week in New York and resulted in the adoption of a Political Declaration (PDF here).  As I feared a few weeks ago, the declaration is weak and does not set hard goals or targets to curb the NCD epidemic, which caused two-thirds of […]