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9. NOTING FURTHER that the general population is affected by problems of
overweight, obesity, and imbalanced intake of nutrients, also traceable to
intrauterine and early childhood malnutrition, contributing to an increased
burden of diet-related noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes mellitus,
cardiovascular diseases and some cancers;
13. EXPAND AND INTENSIFY EFFORTS to engage with relevant sectors and
stakeholders to accelerate the adoption of coherent policies, interventions and
nutrition-enhancing actions, while safeguarding against possible conflicts of
interest, to achieve synergies in action and impact in addressing the multi-
factorial causality of all forms of malnutrition;
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15. SCALE UP evidence-based nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific actions
and interventions that target the vulnerable and disadvantaged groups;
18. TASK the ASEAN Health Ministers to monitor the progress of this Declaration
and support the delivery of quality nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive
interventions and programs towards the eventual achievement of the 2025
global nutrition and diet-related noncommunicable diseases targets, ICN2
Rome Declaration and Framework for Action, and SDG 2 and other SDGs
relevant to nutrition;
19. ADOPTED in Manila, the Republic of the Philippines on this Thirteenth Day
of November in the Year Two Thousand Seventeen, in a single original copy
in the English language.
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