MEMBER NEWS: Global Health Council Releases Paper "Global Leadership, Local Solutions: Mobilizing For NCD"

Global Health Council released a paper this week on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), linking progress and treatment as essential to the success of the Millennium Development Goals.

GHC outlines how traditional developing diseases are at times, symptoms of other chronic diseases. For example in India, approximately 15 percent of new TB cases are contracted as a secondary effect of diabetes.

The paper advocates strengthening health systems and their capability to tread NCDs and proposes a global partnership with global and national benchmarks for NCD prevention.

Read the whole position paper at the Global Health Council.