7 steps to get world leaders to make health history

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http://tud4.us/UNSummit | September 19 and 20, 2011, leaders from around the world will meet in the second ever health-centric Summit at the United Nations. In 2001, the first such health summit turned the tide for HIV/AIDS. This summit will be dedicated to NCDs (non-communicable diseases).

Combined, diabetes, cancer, heart disease and chronic respiratory disease (to only name the 4 major NCDs), are the world’s number 1 killer. Approximately 35 million people die from NCDs each year and 14 million of these deaths could be averted or delayed.

This is a HISTORIC opportunity for world leaders to make commitments that could save the lives of tens of millions of people in the coming decade. Go to: http://tud4.us/UNSummit to take action now!

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Enough is enough! – CEO of International Diabetes Federation about the UN Summit on NCDs

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http://www.tudiabetes.org/profiles/blogs/we-are-here-un-summit-ncds

We asked Ann:
1) Can you tell us what does the upcoming summit mean? What does it imply for the regular folks on the street, living with NCDs or at risk of developing an NCD?

2) Why would the US, Canada and EU have an interest in blocking proposals for the inclusion of an overarching goal: to cut preventable deaths from NCDs by 25% by 2025? Why would they benefit at all from doing this?

3) If time-bound commitments and targets end up deleted, diluted and/or downgraded from the Declaration resulting from the summit, is there anything that would have been accomplished?

4) What can we, as people touched by diabetes do to help get our national governments act on our best interest leading up to the summit?

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Clarifying who is Manny Hernandez :)

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