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Children should be seen and not heard, the Victorians used to say. Not so now, in Europe and the USA, but in the developing world, says Australia-based advocate Dr Kate Armstrong, their needs - let alone their rights - are still being forgotten.
And so it is, in her analysis, that the targets now being considered by the World Health Organisation and others to reduce the impact of heart disease, cancer and other non-infectious diseases, are in danger of being focused solely on adults. Children in the poorest countries die of cancer and asthma and diabetes - but the targets under consideration are to bring down the deaths of adults over the age of 30.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/sarah-boseley-global-health/2012/mar/19/children-cancer
And so it is, in her analysis, that the targets now being considered by the World Health Organisation and others to reduce the impact of heart disease, cancer and other non-infectious diseases, are in danger of being focused solely on adults. Children in the poorest countries die of cancer and asthma and diabetes - but the targets under consideration are to bring down the deaths of adults over the age of 30.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/sarah-boseley-global-health/2012/mar/19/children-cancer