BMC Family Practice (2017) 18:56 DOI 10.1186/s12875-017-0628
UN, international agencies and experts released a groundbreaking report demanding immediate, coordinated and ambitious action to avert a potentially disastrous drug-resistance crisis.
If no action is taken - warns the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordin...ating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance who released the report – drug-resistant diseases could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and damage to the economy as catastrophic as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. By 2030, antimicrobial resistance could force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty.
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PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210937
February 5, 2019
Research Article
PLOS Medicine | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002374 August 8, 2017
Overview.
The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world, but unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be ...attribute-to-highlight medbox">the last, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which includes a new experimental index on human progress that takes into account countries’ carbon dioxide emissions and material footprint.
The report lays out a stark choice for world leaders - take bold steps to reduce the immense pressure that is being exerted on the environment and the natural world, or humanity’s progress will stall.
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The World Heart Federation (WHF) has been advocating globally for stronger
legislation and policy regarding cardiovascular disease (CVD) for many years. Now, as focus shifts from global to national progress, we call on members and colleagues to adv...ocate for greater action on CVD in your local settings. This ‘Road to 2018 Toolkit’ provides World Heart Federation members with information
and specific, practical tools to support national CVD advocacy, especially around the United Nations High-Level Meeting on NCDs in 2018.
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Legislative and Policy analysis and recommendations for reform
Integritas 4.3 (Fall 2014), pp. 1-30.
doi: 10.6017/integritas.v4i3p1
Core Knowledge for Emergency Preparedness and Response
The report shows that where people and communities living with and affected by HIV are engaged in decision-making and HIV service delivery, new infections decline and more people living with HIV gain access to treatment. When people have ...="attribute-to-highlight medbox">the power to choose, to know, to thrive, to demand and to work together, lives are saved, injustices are prevented and dignity is restored.
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