Date: 12/10/2009
The benefits of preventing 7 million more people from developing diabetes worldwide annually and preventing complications in the 246 million people with diabetes would be immense.
Even though the 2000–2015 UN Millennium Development Goals do not contain any reference to the impact of non-communicable diseases, the UN General Assembly in 2006 adopted UN Resolution 61/225, which recognised that :
“diabetes is a chronic, debilitating and costly disease associated with severe complications, which poses severe risks for families, Member States and the entire world and serious challenges to the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals”.
In 2008, the World Health Assembly endorsed the Action Plan to achieve the recommendations of the 2004 World Health Assembly Resolution 57/17 (‘Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health’).
However, despite this, international funding for global action on non-communicable diseases remains very low.
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