Media Watch

New focus on non-communicable diseases

Following on news that world leaders are meeting in New York this week to co-ordinate a response to non-communicable diseases (which do not spread from person to person, or from animal/insect to human), a smattering of articles on the looming threat these conditions pose have appeared in the news media.

Many articles have cited statistics which claim that most of the deaths due to these ‘lifestyle diseases’ are concentrated in developing countries which up until now have been focused on addressing infectious diseases like, HIV and malaria.