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...health agencies from Australia, Canada, China, Britain and the U.S., which together control 80% of the world's public health-research funding, announced today the formation of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD). "Our focus is on reducing the burden of chronic diseases in developing countries," says Leszek Borysiewicz, the chief executive of the U.K. Medical Research Council. "It's critically important to make these interventions now." (Read how health workers are helping fight killer diseases in the developing world...
...funding from governments will follow a more focused research agenda, which would help the GACD's case - and that work could eventually be augmented by funding from private groups like the Gates Foundation. "This won't just be research for a publication at the end of the day," says Borysiewicz. "This is about producing better outcomes for real people...
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