Representatives of the public and private sectors, civil society and academia agreed in Brasilia this week to create strategic alliances involving multiple partners to work together to prevent and control non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the...

In preparation for the UN World Conference Rio +20, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, held on May 9, a conference on "global sustainable...