FD_Unidos por la Diabetes

Presentado el borrador de la Resolución. (09/10/2006)

El gobierno de la República de Bangladesh se ha posicionado como principal sponsor para la Resolución de las Naciones Unidas para la diabetes, y colabora con la IDF en la lucha contra el asesino global, que se lleva más vidas que el SIDA cada año. Diferentes estados miembros han mostrado su apoyo a dicha lucha.

El borrador de la Resolución confeccionado por Blangladesh reconoce la “necesidad urgente en perseguir los esfuerzos multilaterales para promover y mejorar la salud humana, facilitar el acceso al tratamiento i la educación sanitaria”. La Resolución designaría también oficialmente el día 14 de noviembre como el Día Mundial de las Naciones Unidas para la Diabetes.

La Resolución será finalizada por el gobierno de Bangladesh y los estados miembros colaboradores. Es urgente concienciar a los estados miembros acerca de la importancia en colaborar con Bangladesh y ayudar en la Resolución de las Naciones Unidas para la Diabetes.

Aquí podéis leer el borrador de dicha Resolución:

Sixty-first Session
Second Committee
Agenda item 56: Eradication of poverty and other development issues

Bangladesh: draft resolution World Diabetes Day

The General Assembly,

Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome and the Millennium Declaration as well as the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields, in particular the health-related development goals therein, and its resolutions 60/265 of 30 June 2006 and 58/3 of 23 December 2003,

Recognizing that strengthening public health and health care delivery systems is critical to achieving internationally agreed development goals including the Millennium Development Goals,

Recognizing also that diabetes is a chronic, debilitating and costly disease associated with severe complications, which poses severe risks for families, member states and the entire world and serious challenges to the achievement of internationally agreed development goals including the MDGs,

Reaffirming the World Health Assembly resolution WHA42.36 of 19 May 1989 on prevention and control of diabetes mellitus and World Health Assembly Resolution 57/17 of 22 May 2004 on a global strategy on diet, physical activity and health,

Welcoming the fact that the WHO and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) have been officially observing 14 November as World Diabetes Day at a global level since 1991,

Recognizing the urgent need to pursue multilateral efforts to promote and improve human health, provide access to treatment and healthcare education,

Decides to designate the current World Diabetes Day, 14 November, as a UN World Diabetes Day, to be observed every year beginning in 2007,

Invites all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and other relevant international organizations, as well as non-governmental organizations including civil society and private sector, to observe the World Diabetes Day in an appropriate manner, in order to raise public awareness on diabetes and related complications as well as its prevention and care including through education and the mass media,

Encourages Member States to develop national policies for the prevention, treatment and care of diabetes in line with the sustainable development of their health care systems as outlined in internationally agreed development goals including the Millennium Development Goals,

Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the attention of all Member States and organizations of the United Nations system.

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