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STORY: RUSSIA / NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES
SOURCE: WHO
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 28 APRIL 2011, MOSCOW, RUSSIA / 28 FEBRUARY 2011, KERALA, INDIA
28 APRIL 2011, MOSCOW, RUSSIA
1. Wide shot, official party walking onto stage.
2. Wide shot, public
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General:
“The rise of noncommunicable diseases presents public health with an enormous challenge. For some countries it is no exaggeration to describe the situation as an impending disaster. I mean a disaster for health, society and national economies. The challenge of combating noncommunicable diseases has some unprecedented dimensions.”
28 FEBRUARY 2011, KERALA, INDIA
4. Various shots, cancer ward
28 APRIL 2011, MOSCOW, RUSSIA
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General:
“Every one knows that prevention is the better option, but with NCDs the policies that promote unhealthy lifestyles throughout the entire population are beyond the domains of the health sector. We have a lot of evidence about the dangers of tobacco and smoking, and others have to make the laws for tobacco control and enforcement.”
28 FEBRUARY 2011, KERALA, INDIA
6. Various shots, diabetes clinic
28 APRIL 2011, MOSCOW, RUSSIA
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russia Federation:
“I believe that the Moscow Conference will lay the foundation for adopting decision on reducing morbidity and mortality rates from cancer and diabetes, cardio vascular diseases. And ultimately the principles of the healthy lifestyle, necessity to join effort in combating NCDs should be high on the agenda for achieving the MDGs.”
28 FEBRUARY 2011, KERALA, INDIA
8. Various shots, Heart disease ward
Representatives from about 150 governments, including over 90 ministers of health, are meeting in Moscow on ways fight the global epidemics of noncommunicable diseases, which kill over 36 million people annually, including nine million people before the age of 60.
The First Global Ministerial Conference on Healthy Lifestyles and Noncommunicable Disease Control is being co-organized by the Russian Federation and the World Health Organization (WHO). It opened today (28 April) with the participation of Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, and Russian Minister of Health and Social Development Dr. Tatyana Golikova.
Chan spoke of the magnitude of the public health challenge presented by noncommunicable diseases.
SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General:
“The rise of noncommunicable diseases presents public health with an enormous challenge. For some countries it is no exaggeration to describe the situation as an impending disaster. I mean a disaster for health, society and national economies. The challenge of combating noncommunicable diseases has some unprecedented dimensions.”
According to WHO, over 63 percent of all deaths worldwide are caused by noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), primarily heart and lung diseases, cancers and diabetes. Around 80 percent of NCD-related deaths occur in developing countries, dispelling the myth that these are diseases primarily of affluent countries. Deaths from NCDs are projected to increase in coming years without further action.
Chan said that the key is prevention.
SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General:
“Every one knows that prevention is the better option, but with NCDs the policies that promote unhealthy lifestyles throughout the entire population are beyond the domains of the health sector. We have a lot of evidence about the dangers of tobacco and smoking, and others have to make the laws for tobacco control and enforcement.”
Prime Minister Putin expressed hope that the Moscow Conference will lay the foundations for combating NCDs.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russia Federation:
“I believe that the Moscow Conference will lay the foundation for adopting decision on reducing morbidity and mortality rates from cancer and diabetes, cardio vascular diseases. And ultimately the principles of the healthy lifestyle, necessity to join effort in combating NCDs should be high on the agenda for achieving the MDGs.”
In Moscow, WHO also launched the first Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases, which provides a baseline of the status of the epidemics of NCDs and their main risk factors, primarily tobacco use, poor diet, harmful use of alcohol and physical inactivity.
On 27 April, the WHO Global Forum on addressing the challenge of noncommunicable diseases attracted around 300 key figures from the civil and private sectors, academia, and others to urge greater action against this group of diseases.
These events are key milestones in the build-up to the first-ever United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of NCDs, being held in New York, the United States of America, on 19-20 September, 2011.
