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Conference on combating cancer, diabetes and heart disease in the world's poorest countries.

Health and development go hand-in-hand, and the explosive increase in diabetes, cancer and heart disease in developing countries is threatening the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on poverty reduction.

UN puts this threat of the global agenda at a summit on NCDs (Non Communicable Diseases) on 19 and 20 September 2011 in New York. As a prelude to the UN summit, the Danish NCD Alliance, an alliance between The Danish Diabetes Association, The Danish Heart Foundation and the Danish Cancer Society, invites you to the conference on Non Communicable Diseases on Thursday 5 May 2011, from 14.00-17.15.

At the conference, NCD Alliance's partners from Uganda will tell how these diseases affect health in Uganda, about being NCD patients in a developing country and how we as civil society have taken up the challenge. Finally, these issues will be looked at from a research perspective, followed by a discussion on what we can do in Denmark.

Please note that the conference will be conducted in English.

Program

14.00-14.10 Welcome by CEO Henrik Nedergaard, The Danish Diabetes Association

14.10-14.25 The government's preparations for the summit by Chief Technical Advisor Esben Sønderstrup, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

14.25-14.35 The Uganda/Denmark NCD Alliance Partnership by Director of development Susanne Volqvartz, The Danish NCD Alliance

14.35-14.50 The impact of NCDs in Uganda by Professor Marcel Otim President of Uganda Diabetes Association

14.50-15.05 To survive being a NCD patient in Uganda by Margareth Okello Nanteza breast cancer survivor The Uganda Cancer Society

15.05-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-15.45 The impact of civil society working together in an alliance by project manager Diana Kenyangi, The Uganda NCD Alliance

15.45-16.05 The need to take a life-cycle approach in interventions for prevention of NCDs by Professor Ib Bygbjerg, University of Copenhagen, Global Health

16.05-16.20 Research in the fight against NCDs by Professor Maximilian de Courten, University of Copenhagen, Global Health

16.20-16.40 Putting NCD on the global agenda, lessons learned in the HIV/Aids Foundation by CEO Henriette Laursen, The Danish Aids Foundation

16.40-17.15 General debate and winding up by Henrik Nedergaard




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