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Alleyne et al. Globalization and Health 2010, 6:15 /content/6/1/15 COMMENTARY Open Access The hope and the promise of the UN Resolution on non-communicable diseases 1 2,3* 4 George Alleyne , David Stuckler , Ala Alwan The hope and the promise of the UN Resolution Doha Declaration, adopted at the Ministerial Meeting on on non-communicable diseases NCDs and Development, organized by the United Nations On May 13, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly Department of Economic and Social Affairs and WHO in passed resolution 265, ‘Prevention and control of non- Doha, Qatar, in May 2009; and second, the subsequent communicable diseases’ [1], a major political statement discussions during the High-Level segment of the United calling for Heads of State to address NCDs in a ‘High Nations Social and Economic Council in July 2009, which Level’ plenary meeting scheduled for September 2011. recognized that NCDs in developing countries pose a Out of this meeting, and its associated “outcome docu- major threat to development and called for urgent action ment”, will come a series of programmatic steps by all to implement the World Health Organization Action Plan UN members. We cannot understate the potential of for the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of this UN resolution to make chronic non-communicable Non-communicable Diseases. The UN Resolution is diseases (NCDs) a global priority among international co-sponsored by 78 countries, as well as Cameroon on leaders. While in the past there have been numerous beha