Region of the Americas
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WHO lays out plan for financing new global health goal
13th July 2015
WHO is urging countries to move towards universal health coverage (UHC) and to scale up international investment in catalytic development funding. The call comes as world leaders convene in Ethiopia, for the Third UN Financing for Development Conference, to discuss ways to pay for the new Sustainable Development Goals, to be launched in New York in September 2015.
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PAHO/WHO: New Inter-American Task Force on NCDs launched
19th June 2015
A group of agencies concerned about the burden of NCDs on human and economic development in the Americas has launched a new task force to accelerate multisectoral action for prevention and control of NCDs in the region.