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"Mr President, in welcoming the Commissioner's commitment to working with the UN agencies, can I ask him if he agrees with Kofi Annan that there can be no economic health without physical and mental health, and will he work with the agencies, particularly WHO and UNICEF, to achieve that. We have heard a lot today and we will rightly hear a lot more about one of the biggest challenges, Aids: two days ago, Kofi Annan was appealing to the world to play a bigger part in this. But there are other illnesses: TB, malaria, river blindness and the mental and neurological health area which this year was designated by the WHO as its key area.
Will he bring forward to this Parliament plans to do more work in that area? Mental health is the fastest growing cause of disability. For example, there are more people with epilepsy than with Aids – 40 million people live with it, but only 8 million of those 40 million are treated for it. That is a disgrace to the world. We can do more. Will he commit this Parliament, this Union, and this Commission to do more as well."@en1
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