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The United Nations General Assembly has signed a historic global declaration that commits governments to working together to fight noncommunicable diseases and mental health conditions for the first time. People are calling the agreement a historic step toward better global health cooperation because it recognizes how chronic illness and mental health problems are becoming more common and affecting economies and societies around the world.
Heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are some of the most common causes of death
around the world. Mental health problems affect more than a billion people. In
the past, these problems have often been dealt with separately in policies and
funding. The new declaration shows a change in how people think about health,
recognizing that mental and physical health are closely linked and need to be
dealt with together.
The declaration lays out clear and measurable goals that must be met by 2030.
These include lowering tobacco use, making it easier to prevent and control
high blood pressure, and greatly increasing access to mental health services.
Governments have also promised to make national health policies stronger, make
it easier for people to get the services they need, and make sure that the
money is available for the long term so that promises turn into real results.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health
Organization, said that the agreement was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to change
the course of global health. He said that if the promises are kept quickly and
with responsibility, they could save millions of lives and make life better for
people all over the world. Regular United Nations reporting systems will keep
an eye on progress under the declaration, and governments are expected to show
real results over the next few years.
The UN also warned of worsening humanitarian crises caused by conflict, climate
shocks, and a lack of funding. At the same time, world leaders promised to take
action on long-term health problems. The situation in Afghanistan is getting
worse and worse as millions of people go hungry during the harsh winter months.
The UN World Food Programme says that more than 17 million Afghans are now at
risk as winter sets in. This is more than two million more than last year,
according to global hunger assessments.
WFP officials said that the unprecedented cuts in funding are having terrible
effects on the ground. Mothers go to health centers to get help for their kids,
but they are turned away because there aren't enough resources. As food
insecurity gets worse, aid workers are seeing families go days without food and
do extreme things to stay alive. Child deaths are on the rise, and things are
likely to get worse in the coming months.
Afghanistan is having a hard time because of a long drought, crop failures, job
losses, and recent earthquakes that left thousands of people homeless. Forced
returns from Pakistan and Iran have made the crisis worse. This year, about 2.5
million people were sent back, many of whom were already malnourished. The Noncommunicable Diseases World Food Program says it needs $468 million to help six million people get
through the winter, but it still doesn't have enough money.
At the same time, rising violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the
Congo has caused a huge number of people to leave their homes. More than
500,000 people have left their homes in the last few days because Rwanda-backed
M23 fighters have moved into parts of South Kivu province, according to United
Nations agencies. The World Food Program said that as communities face more
violence, no one should have to choose between safety and survival.
The UN refugee agency said that about 64,000 refugees from the DRC have already
arrived in Burundi, which is next door, and more are on the way. Medical care,
shelter, and protection are all urgent needs, especially for unaccompanied
children and women, who make up a large part of the newly displaced.
Fighting has made it very hard for humanitarian work to go on in some parts of
South Kivu. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that
aid work has stopped in towns like Fizi and Baraka because of looting and fear.
Some areas are starting to get limited amounts of aid again, but access is
still fragile because needs are still growing.
These events show a clear difference between long-term global commitments and
the urgent humanitarian crises that are happening right now in many parts of
the world. The United Nations keeps warning that both global health goals and
life-saving humanitarian operations are in danger if there isn't enough
political will and money.
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