Minister of Health of South Africa, Aaron Motsoaledi, MD, speaking at the World Economic Forum on Africa.
This week, during the World Economic Forum on Africa held in Cape Town, South Africa, the American Cancer Society played a key role in a special session on cancer and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa. This session, co-organized with the World Health Organization, marked the first time that the issue of NCDs was included on the agenda at a World Economic Forum meeting. Johanna Ralston, vice president of Global Strategies for the American Cancer Society, facilitated a session of more than 50 representatives from government, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations. The new minister of health of South Africa, Aaron Motsoaledi, MD, was among the speakers in the session, which focused heavily on cancer and the role of public-private partnerships in addressing NCDs. Tom Glynn, PhD, director of International Cancer Control for the American Cancer Society, facilitated another session at the conference on tobacco and the workplace.
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