“This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.”
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A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.