The plan integrates mental health with chronic disease, sets ambitious targets for tobacco, hypertension, and care access.
World leaders overwhelmingly approved a plan to overhaul how the world treats chronic disease and mental health, overcoming a diplomatic split at the U.N. to set hard targets for 2030.
The political declaration on noncommunicable diseases and mental health passed in the U.N. General Assembly on Monday by a vote of 175-2 marks the first time the international community has grouped physical illnesses like heart disease and diabetes with mental health.
With 4° C. of warming, the peak shifts to the mid-2050s and intensifies to around 4,000 lost per year, researchers found.
Developing countries and big pharma have struggled to bridge gaps over mandatory benefit-sharing during pandemics.
From 2010 to 2024, annual AIDS-related deaths fell 54% and new infections fell 40%. That progress is now in doubt.
As the climate talks ran into overtime, European nations and allies battled Saudi Arabia, Russia and other oil producers.
The looming food security crisis in Afghanistan is pushed to a breaking point by a severe shortfall in global funding.
The U.N. chief condemned the attacks, which killed six people and injured several others, and said they may be war crimes.
With 4° C. of warming, the peak shifts to the mid-2050s and intensifies to around 4,000 lost per year, researchers found.
The resolution was paired with a measure on minerals and metals essential to AI and the clean energy transition.
