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* Helping to formulate national reproductive health strategies that consider context- specific chronic disease challenges and ensuring that emerging chronic disease strategies are sensitive to reproductive health needs and gender inequalities.* Raising awareness among communities seeking reproductive health services regarding their specific chronic disease risks and resources available for prevention and treatment.* TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 36 TH-1 guidelines for optimal nutrition and incorporating them into reproductive health services to help reach appropriate levels of consumption for women who are both under- and overweight.* Building on existing collaborations with those in the HIV/ AIDS field to apply lessons learned regarding integration of services, or to facilitate connections with chronic disease experts working to establish longterm population health care.

* Considering how emerging technologies, including mobile and cell phone- enabled communications, can facilitate data collection, diagnosis, and management of chronic diseases.Why use the term "TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 36 TH-4 diseases"? "Chronic diseases" is often used interchangeably with such terms as "noncommunicable diseases," "lifestyle diseases" and "diseases of affluence" or "Western diseases." No term is perfect, but some may be more useful than others; for example, the diseases of affluence paradigm implies incorrectly that these conditions are not a concern for low-income populations. This article uses "chronic disease" because the term helps convey important characteristics of this subset of diseases: for example, that they often TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 360 TH-10 decades of disability.1 The World Health Organizations (WHO) major report on chronic disease provides several examples of how disability caused by chronic diseases has affected real peoples lives in developing countries.1

This article focuses on the chronic conditions of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity (for more information on the rationale for this focus, see page 1). Illnesses and risk factors like cancer, depression, tobacco use, and blindness are all often grouped under a broad definition of chronic disease, and obviously impact people living in developing countries, including their reproductive health (e.g., reproductive cancers, maternal smoking, and postpartum depression). WHOs websiteis an excellent starting point for more information on these and other topics. Approaches to chronic disease TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 360 TH-104 and management in low- and middle-income countries Policies and programs to address chronic diseases in developing countries are relatively new, and so rigorous evaluation data are not widely available in many cases.