Those of us who have been working this year on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) know all too well that despite our relative success in getting NCDs on the global health agenda, there is no new money for fighting them, certainly not in the U.S. (see Jeff Meer’s blog below).
It doesn’t matter that NCDs are now the leading cause of deaths in the world, killing more than 36 million people in 2008 (6…