Nestle, Glaxo Lobby UN Over Biggest ‘Epidemic’ Battle Since AIDS

Nestle SA, GlaxoSmithKline Plc and SAB Miller SA face health lobbyists next week in New York as the first United Nations General Assembly on disease since the 2001 AIDS summit tries to combat the world’s biggest killers.

Company officials join political leaders and health groups to produce a plan to reverse the rising tide of non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart and lung disease that the World Health Organization says a study found will cost the global economy more than $30 trillion over the next 20 years.