WHO releases new online tool highlighting investment opportunities for preventing and treating NCDs
GENEVA/NEW YORK: A new World Health Organization (WHO) web-based tool previewed yesterday shows for the first time country-specific data on investment opportunities for scaling up interventions to prevent and treat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and lower-middle-income countries. These diseases are the world's leading killers taking the lives of around 41 million people each year.