After months of negotiations, lobbying from industry and NGOs and public health experts, international governments have finally agreed the political declaration that will form the spine of the UN’s summit on non-communicable diseases later this month. The BMJ has seen a copy of the final declaration and for those who have been involved there are […]
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Richard Smith: UN meeting on non-communicable diseases goes wobbly
Things are not going well with the UN high level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that will take place in New York in a month’s time. The aim was to have completed negotiations on the outcomes document before the UN closed for its summer break, but this wasn’t achieved. The member states causing the most […]
Olivia Roberts: More tales from the UN number-crunchers
Quick follow on from the last blog post on the wonderful world of UN statistics. This time the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) has ploughed through country data. Good news: The estimated global mortality for children under-5 in 2008 is 65 per 1,000 live births, versus 90 in 1990. Bad news: Due to […]