The World Health Organization’s new Global Diabetes Compact aims to bring a much-needed boost to efforts to prevent diabetes and bring treatment to all who need it ̶ 100 years after the discovery of insulin.
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该契约将于今日在全球糖尿病峰会上推出。
The Compact is being launched today at the GlobalDiabetes Summit, which is co-hosted by WHO and the Government of Canada, with the support of the University of Toronto.
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此次峰会由世卫组织和加拿大政府在多伦多大学支持下共同主办。
During the event, the President of Kenya will join the Prime Ministers of Fiji, Norway and Singapore; the WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries, Michael R. Bloomberg; and ministers of health from a number of countries as well as diabetes experts and people living with diabetes, to highlight the ways in which they will support this new collaborative effort.
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会议期间，肯尼亚总统将与斐济、挪威和新加坡总理；
Other UN agencies, civil society partners and representatives of the private sector will also attend.
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糖尿病导致的早亡风险正在增加
The risk of early death from diabetes is increasing
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世卫组织总干事谭德塞博士说：“防治糖尿病的迫切需要比以往任何时候都更加鲜明。
“The need to take urgent action on diabetes is clearer than ever,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization.
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过去40年里，糖尿病患者的数量翻了两番。
“The number of people with diabetes has quadrupled in the last 40 years.
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这是唯一一种早亡风险在上升而非下降的主要非传染性疾病。
It is the only major noncommunicable disease for which the risk of dying early is going up, rather than down.