Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

Cancers of all types among women are increasing