No communicable diseases (NCDs) cause 60% of deaths in the world, but receive only 2.3% of international aid to combat them, said today the brand new Healthy Coalition America (CFA), which met in the City of Buenos Aires.
About 55 organizations in Latin America began the meeting; prepare a regional plan with view of the high-level summit on ENT Nations (UN) which will be in September in New York.
Figures released at the beginning of the meeting highlighted that 80% of ENT-cancer deaths, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes occur in developing countries and the poorest people are most affected.
The CFA report noted that the main causes of these diseases are smoking, physical inactivity, poor diet and alcohol consumption.
The deliberations of Buenos Aires will be extended throughout the day and will culminate tomorrow with a statement, in which scholars think about the need to reach the summit which will be held in September in New York, have laws that allow lower rates of disease mortality no communicable diseases.
The first time the United Nations convened a high-level meeting on pandemic was in 1996, where he discussed the issue of AIDS. The second will be this year, to discuss the problem of no communicable diseases like cardiovascular disease, COPD, diabetes and cancer.
Veronica Shoji, director of the InterAmerican Heart Foundation (ICF), expressed the need for Argentina to reach the UN meeting “with the ratification of the framework convention on the use of snuff and domestic law control snuff.”
Shoji said that “snuff is the only component that is a risk factor of all non-communicable diseases,” adding that “we also should be made to promote more healthy habits to combat the sedentary lifestyle and bring to enforce healthy diets.”
The specialist said that “three out of five deaths occurring in the world are due to no communicable diseases and could have been avoided.” Therefore, he insisted that “America must work to lower cardiovascular disease rates, such as hypertension and salt intake, which helps trigger these diseases.”
Shoji said “should be promoted non-sedentary life, eating more fruits and vegetables and state smoke-free environments at the national level, because it was shown that in the provinces and cities which applied down the amount of cardiovascular disease.”
The deliberations for the preparation of the minutes which results in the coalition shall consider, among other things, the proposals presented these evening organizations such as the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology, the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
