A leading global health expert in dementia is calling on the World Health Organization to make the condition a top world health priority along with cancer, lung disease, diabetes and chronic heart disease.
Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, told the Today programme's Justin Webb that, due to lack of funding and research into dementia, "we're going into the next global health time bomb" much like the AIDS epidemic of several decades ago. #dementia #health #WHO #ProfessorPeterPiot
Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, told the Today programme's Justin Webb that, due to lack of funding and research into dementia, "we're going into the next global health time bomb" much like the AIDS epidemic of several decades ago. #dementia #health #WHO #ProfessorPeterPiot
about 1 year ago
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