Fight against global disease requires spirit of friendship as well as finance from UK

SIXTY years on from the inception of the NHS, the health threats to the UK and the world are very different. With rising food prices, conflict, migration, new patterns of disease, and natural disasters on the scale we have just seen in Burma, the issue of how British health professionals engage with partners around the world has never been more important.

On 29 April, the Royal College of Physicians of London (RCP) hosted a conference addressing the UK's role in global health.

While HIV/Aids and Malaria are often headline news, the burden of chronic disease in developing countries is growing and sh...