Thursday, 30 May 2013

Leading Canadian health charities urge renewed federal government leadership on non-communicable diseases

Four of Canada’s leading health charities – the Canadian Cancer Society, the Canadian Diabetes Association, the Canadian Lung Association and the Heart and Stroke Foundation – are applauding the adoption at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland of global targets and a global action plan to reduce premature death from NCDs by 25% by 2025. At the World Health Assembly, member states (including Canada) voted to adopt the Non-Communicable Disease Global Monitoring Framework. Read more here.

Read the common vision statement of the four charities, Call for action on chronic diseases, here.

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